About Meir Obernik
Lived 1764 – 1805 (aged 40–41). Meir Obernik was a translator, author and talmudist.
Meir Obernik (; 1764 – 6 November 1805) was a writer and Biblical commentator of the Biurist movement.
Obernik contributed to the Me'assef a great number of fables, and was one of the most active of the Biurists. He translated into German the Books of Joshua and Judges, adding a short commentary (bi'ur), and (with ) the Book of Samuel. The translation of the whole Tanakh, with the bi'ur, was edited by Obernik under the title of Minḥah ḥadashah (Vienna, 1792–1806).
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Who was Meir Obernik?
talmudist, translator and author
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Meir Obernik was born in 1764 in Oborniki.
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Meir Obernik died on 6 November 1805 in Vienna.
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Meir Obernik was a translator, author and talmudist.
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