Moses Reicherson
Moses Reicherson (; 5 October 1827 – 3 April 1903) was Hebrew grammarian, translator, biblical commentator, and poet. Selected biography. Reicherson was born in 1827 in Vilna, where he was a childhood friend of J. L. Gordon. After studying Talmud, Hebrew, and European languages, he became a Hebrew teacher and a proofreader and editor for publishing houses. In 1890 or 1892 he emigrated to New York to be near his son, where he lived in poverty. He worked as a "melamed" at the Uptown Talmud Torah in Harlem, becoming its principal by 1902. Work. The literary activity of Reicherson was  chiefly in the field of Hebrew grammar. He wrote: "Ḥelkat ha-nikkud", on Hebrew punctuation (Vilna, 1864); "Ḥelkat ha-pe'alim veha-milot", on Hebrew verbs and particles (Vilna, 1873); "Yad la-nikkud", a compendium of the rules of Hebrew punctuation for beginners (appended to the prayer book "Ḥinnuk tefillah"; Vilna, 1880); "Dikduk ḥaberim", on the elementary rules of Hebrew grammar (appended to the same prayer book; Vilna, 1883); "Ma'arekhet ha-dikduk", a compendium of Hebrew grammar (Vilna, 1883; it was translated into Yiddish by its author and published in the same year); "Ḥelkat ha-shem", on the Hebrew noun (Vilna , 1884); "Tikkun meshalim", a translation of of the Russian writer I. A. Krylov (Vilna, 1860); and "Mishle Lessing ve-sippurav", a translation of Lessing's fables (New York, 1902). Along with essays on linguistics in American and European Hebrew journals like "Ner ma'aravi", ', "Ha-Ivri", and "Ha-teḥiya", Reicherson published poetry in 's literary magazine '. He also wrote "He'arot we-tikkunim la-divan", notes on the "diwan" of Judah ha-Levi (Lyck, 1866). He left a number of works in manuscript, including: "Dibre ḥakamim ve-ḥidotam", on Talmudic aggadot; commentaries on the Pentateuch, on the Books of Samuel, Kings, Isaiah , Ezekiel, the Twelve Prophets, Psalms, Job, and Proverbs; a prayer book, "Tefillah le-Moshe"; a work on Hebrew syntax; and fables, original as well as translations from Gellert.