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Daniel Neufeld (1814 – 15 October 1874) was a Polish-born Jewish author, poet, and educator.

Biography

Daniel Neufeld was born to a Jewish family in Praszka, where he received a traditional cheder education. At the age of 13 he enrolled in a provincial grammar school run by the Piarist Fathers in Wieluń, but did not graduate, possibly because of his involvement in the November Uprising.[1] Neufeld opened a Jewish boys' school in 1838, with a curriculum that included the exact sciences, foreign language, and principles of progressive Judaism.[2] Neufeld moved to Chenstokhov in 1840, establishing there a private boarding school for Jewish boys.[3]

Neufeld settled in Warsaw in 1861, where worked as an editor of Samuel Orgelbrand's Encyklopedia powszechna (until 1868) and as a teacher in Jewish government schools.Шаблон:RШаблон:R There he published a work on the Great Sanhedrin of 1806 under the title Wielki Sanhedryn Paryski w Roku 1806. On 5 July 1861, Neufeld commenced the publication in Polish of a Jewish weekly newspaper entitled Шаблон:Ill (Шаблон:Lang-he), which sought to promote among Jews the Polish language and way of life.[4] The periodical was closed during the January Uprising on 23 October 1863 and he was exiled to Siberia.[5]

Upon returning to Warsaw two years later, the tsarist authorities forbade Neufeld from teaching or printing in the press. He instead dedicated himself to promoting progressive Judaism and assimilation.Шаблон:R[6] He published a Polish translation of the books of Genesis and Exodus, with a commentary (1863); a pamphlet on the establishment of a Jewish consistory in Poland entitled Urzadzenie Konsystorza Zydowskiego w Polsce; a gnomology of the fathers of the Synagogue; and Polish translations of the siddur and the Haggadah (1865).[7]

Towards the end of his life Neufeld settled in Piotrków, where he served as the honorary director of a Jewish hospital.Шаблон:R He died in Warsaw in October 1874.

References

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