Mardochée Venture

Mardochée Venture (; – 12 March 1789) was a French Judaic scholar and translator. He served as secretary and Hebrew interpreter at the Library of King Louis XVI (now the Bibliothèque nationale de France).

In collaboration with Isaïe Vidal (1713–1771), Venture composed the Seder ha-Kontres (Avignon, 1765), a collection of liturgical chants for the use of the Jews of the county of Venaissin , known as Papal Jews. This compilation includes a piyyut composed by Venture, partly in Hebrew and partly in Provençal, which was translated into French by Ernest Sabatier in his Chansons hébraïco-provençales des juifs comtadins (Nîmes, 1874) and by Pedro II of Brazil, in his Poésies hébraïco-provençales du rituel israélite comtadin (Avignon, 1891). Venture's translations of prayer books were republished through the 19th century.

Publications

With Isaïe Vidal.

(2d ed., Paris, 1845).