Stern, Max Emanuel
STERN, MAX EMANUEL
STERN, MAX EMANUEL (Mendel; 1811–1873), Hebrew publisher and writer. Born in Pressburg, he studied in a yeshivah and began teaching at the age of 14. In 1833 he went to Vienna and worked as a proofreader at a printing press; from 1838 he was director of its Hebrew division. He was editor and publisher of Kokhevei Yiẓḥak (36 vols., 1845–69), a Hebrew periodical which included poetry, prose, scholarly articles, and translations. He also issued old Hebrew texts with German translations.
bibliography:
Kressel, Leksikon, 2 (1967), 919.
[Getzel Kressel]
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