Moses Reicherson, 1827–1903, Hebrew author and grammarian. Reicherson was born in Vilna where he earned his living as a part-time teacher of Hebrew and as a proofreader and editor for publishing houses.
Moses Reicherson, “Man of wisdom” of the purest kind, probably the finest Hebrew grammarian in New York, and one of the finest in the world. He was a childhood friend of J.L. Gordon. He produced the first Hebrew translation of the proverbs of the Russian author I.A. Krylov (1860), and published a three-part Hebrew grammar, Dikduk li-Sefat Ever (1864, 1873, 1884). In 1890 he immigrated to East 106th Street, Harlem; New York where he translated Lessing’s proverbs and stories in Mishlei Lessing ve-Sippurav (1902). He also wrote many essays on linguistics for American and European Hebrew journals.
Photo credit: Drawing of Moses Reicherson,
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