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faith, or perhaps even brothers, eager
for knowledge, would so much sooner
buy the books.
Rebecca Tiktiner, as one of these au-
thoresscs, attained to certain degree
Of celebrity. The professor of Rostock.
G. G. Zelner, has written an especial
dissertation Of which she is the subject.
but out of which, to be sure, one can
learn Of nothing concerning her with the
exception of her name. She was of
Polish birth and the daughter of Rabbi
Meir Tiktiner. She wrote book of
morals and manners for women, in the
jewish German dialect, which, to her
own memory and to the honor of
all women she named "Mcachet
RiJco" or "Rcbecca's Nurse, and
which, after her death, prague, 1909
appeared in second issue at Krakau in
1913. Nothing more definite is known
about this learned priestess" or her al
EcduN lOH3-lOIEOUUcIl DOOk.
Contemporary with Rebecca, we find.
in Prague, Taube Pan, daughter Of r.
Moses Loeb Picker, and wife of R. ia
cob Pan She composed song which
occupied five pages and which, without
mention of either time or place was,
very likely, printed in Prague in 1909.
A moralizing female preacher" we
find in Hanna, the daughter of Jehuda
Loeb Katz, and widow Of Isaac Ashke-
nasi She is the authoress of Jewish
German DeraSha or sermon, which she
had gathered in reading different ethi-
cal books and which, also without men
tion of date, was printed at Amsterdam.
Poland, the seat of the then existing
Jewish learning, has given US several
active literary women. Edel Mendels,
of Krakau, was the daughter of r. Mo-
ses ben Jesaia Mendels, rabbi of Frank
furt the Main, Prague and Posen
She wrote, in the jewish German dia-
lect, compendium of 'Josippon" or a
story of theJews according to Josephus.
which appeared in her birthplace, Kra-
kau, in 1910
Roesel, likewise woman of Krakau,
was the grand daughter of Rabbi Jehuda
Levi who, for fifty years, occupied the
presidents seat in a talmudical high
school of Lodomer. She was the wife
of r. Fischel and, when widowed, wrote
a Jewish-German translation of the
''IHHlim' or Psalm book, composed by
Moses Stendal in the same metre as the
already mentioned Samuel's Book.
This she had published in Krakau in
1886, "danH es soil sejem HeJHch III
zeiien fuer Manner and Frauen md die
frommen MoidLch. ~
We also find Ellusch, the daughter of
Mordechai Machel Of Zluck, recorded
as a learned woman. She was the wife
of Rabbi Aahron ben Elakim Goetz,
who, for some time, offciated as rabbi
in the neighborhood of Wilma. Accom-
panying her husband on a journey to
Palestine, she wrote translation of the
customary prayers of the morning ser
vice in Juedisch- Deutsch these were
published at Frankfurt -on-the Oder in
1904. She also translated into the same
dialect, the Rituals for the Dying and
the Dead" composed by Aaron Berach
jah.
The Jewish community of Prague,
celebrated in the art of printing, has
also given to history several women,
who are known as authoresses and pub
hshers of jewish German books.
Bathseba (PetscheD Hurwitz, wife of
Seligman Hurwitz Of Prague, in 1902
instigated the printing Of the song com
posed by Moses Xurita, which consisted
Of ffty-fye strophes and which was "a
song Of praise Of the wonders Of the
universe" Bella Chasan. the daughter
of Baer ben Chiskia Levi Horwitz. who
died martyrs death, was the wife of
the Vienna exile, Joseph Chasan. She
wrote, in 1908 The story of the House
+ so that it should be agreeable to read for
men and women and the pOus madens.'