Baruch Werber (Hebrew: ברוך ווערבער; 1810, Brody – 31 July 1876, Brody) was a Galician Jewish Hebraist, author, publisher, and editor.

Baruch Werber
Born1810 (1810)
Brody, Galicia, Habsburg Empire
Died31 July 1876(1876-07-31) (aged 65–66)
Brody, Galicia, Austrian Empire
ChildrenJacob Werber

Werber, who was a follower of Isaac Erter and Nachman Krochmal, began his literary career writing for the Hebrew weekly Ha-Mevasser.[1] In 1865 he founded his own Hebrew weekly, which was published in Brody until 1890 under the names of Ha-Ivri (lit.'The Hebrew') and Ivri Anokhi [he] (lit.'I Am a Hebrew').[2] In addition to numerous articles which appeared in this magazine, Werber wrote Megillat Kohelet (Lemberg, 1862; 2d ed., Warsaw, 1876), an introduction and commentary to Ecclesiastes, and Toledot Adam (Brody, 1870), a biography of Albert Cohn.

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  • Megillat Kohelet. Lemberg: Hirsch Sperling & Berish Luria. 1862.
  • Toledot Adam. Brody. 1870.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

References

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  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainSinger, Isidore; Ochser, Schulim (1906). "Werber, Baruch". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 12. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 502.

  1. ^ Elkoshi, Gedalyah (2007). "Werber, Baruch". In Berenbaum, Michael; Skolnik, Fred (eds.). Encyclopaedia Judaica (2nd ed.). Detroit: Macmillan Reference. ISBN 978-0-02-866097-4.
  2. ^ Kuzmany, Börries (2017). Brody: A Galician Border City in the Long Nineteenth Century. Leiden: Brill. pp. 124–125. ISBN 978-90-04-33484-7.