Bella bat R. Jakob Perlhefter
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Bella bat Jakob Perlhefter (Isabell, Bilah, born ca. 1650 in Prague
, modern Czech Republic
) died 1709 in Prague) was a professional Hebrew letter writer, businesswoman and instructor of music. She corresponded with her husband Behr Perlhefter
and with the Christian polymath Johann Christoph Wagenseil
in Hebrew. She wrote the preface of the Yiddish book “Beer Sheva” (Seven Springs).
Prague
Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million...
, modern Czech Republic
Czech Republic
The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....
) died 1709 in Prague) was a professional Hebrew letter writer, businesswoman and instructor of music. She corresponded with her husband Behr Perlhefter
Behr Perlhefter
Beer Shmuel Issachar Leyb ben Judah Moses Eybeschuetz Perlhefter was a Jewish scholar and rabbi. His educated wife Bella bat R. Jakob Perlhefter , corresponded in Hebrew and wrote the preface on the Yiddish book “Beer Sheva”...
and with the Christian polymath Johann Christoph Wagenseil
Johann Christoph Wagenseil
Johann Christoph Wagenseil was a German Christian Hebraist.In 1667 he was made professor of history at Altdorf, and was professor of Oriental languages at the same university from 1674 to 1697, after which he occupied the chair of ecclesiastical law until his death...
in Hebrew. She wrote the preface of the Yiddish book “Beer Sheva” (Seven Springs).
External links
- Elisheva Carlebach: Bella Perlhefter. In: Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia. 1 March 2009. Jewish Women's Archive.
- Rachel L Greenblatt: ´My Happiness Overturned`. Mourning, Memory and a Woman's Writing in ´Book of Seven Springs`, Lecture on the Early Modern Workshop. Volume 8: Egodocuments: Revelation of the Self in the Early Modern Period, 2011, University of Texas at Austin, August 21-23.
- Elisheva Carlebach: The Letters of Bella Perlhefter, Lecture on the Early Modern Workshop. Volume 1: Early Modern Jewries, 2004, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT.
- Nathanael Riemer: Zwischen Tradition und Häresie. ´Beer Sheva` – eine Enzyklopädie des jüdischen Wissens der Frühen Neuzeit. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2010, pp. 12-66.
- Nathanael Riemer; Sigrid Senkbeil (eds.): "´Beer Sheva` by Beer and Bella Perlhefter. An Edition of a Seventeenth Century Yiddish Encyclopedia. Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz : 2011, pp. X-XVII.