About Simon Bondi
Lived 1774 – 1816 (aged 41–42). Simon Bondi was a writer, linguist and lexicographer.
Simon Bondi (; 1774 – 20 December 1816) was a German maskil and lexicographer of the Talmud.
He wrote, together with his brother , the Or Ester ('Light of Esther'), a Hebrew dictionary of the Latin words occurring in the Talmud, targumim and midrashim (Dessau, 1812). They also wrote a similar work on the Greek words, which was never printed. The periodical Jedidja (i. 117–125) contains a biographical obituary of Simon by his brother Mordecai.
Bondi was related to the author and the court factor and banker Simon Isaac Bondi. His sister Sophie married into the Warburg family of Hamburg.
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Who was Simon Bondi?
lexicographer of the Talmud
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Simon Bondi was born in 1774 in Dresden.
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Simon Bondi died on 20 December 1816 in Dresden.
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Simon Bondi was a writer, linguist and lexicographer.
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