Aaron Halle-Wolfssohn (1754 20 March 1835) was a German Jew, a translator and commentator of the Tanakh and a leading writer of the Haskalah (the Jewish Enlightenment). He was born in Halle and died in F rth. He was professor at the K nigliche Wilhelmsschule at Breslau from 1792 to 1807. He translated much of the Tanakh into German, as well as a Hebrew-German primer (Abtalion), commentaries, essays and a play Leichtsinn und Fr mmelei (written in 1796).

Bibliography

• Jeremy Dauber 2004 Antonio's Devils: Writers of the Jewish Enlightenment and the Birth of Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literature. Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-4901-9 Review of this book

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