David Samoscz

David ben Joseph Samoscz (Yiddish: דוד בן יוסף זאַמושׁטשׁ; 29 December 1789 – 29 April 1864) was a German author of Hebrew children's literature.

David Samoscz
Born	(1789-12-29)29 December 1789 Kempen, Province of Posen
Died	29 April 1864(1864-04-29) (aged 74) Breslau, Prussia
Language	Hebrew
Genre	Children's literature, occasional poetry
Literary movement	Haskalah[1]

Born in Kempen, Province of Posen, he went at an early age to Breslau, where he was a tutor and private teacher until 1822, when he entered business. Having met with reverses he toward the end of his life devoted himself again to literature. He was a prolific author of stories for the young, written in Hebrew and adapted mainly from the German, and of textbooks of instruction in the Jewish religion.^[2]

Work

Samoscz contributed Hebrew poems to periodicals, such as Bikkure ha-Ittim, and to the works of his Breslau friends, M. B. Friedenthal, Jacob Raphael Fürstenthal, and others. His other works include the following:

• Ger tzedek. Breslau. 1816. History of the conversion of Joseph Steblitzki, written in German with Hebrew characters.
• He-ḥarutz vehe-atzel. Breslau: Löb Sulzbach. 1817.
• Pillegesh ve-Gibeah, ein Biblisches Drama. Breslau. 1818.
• Tokeḥot musar. Sittenbüchlein in für Kinder. Breslau: H. Sulzbach. 1819.
• Teshuva le-mevakeer. Breslau: L. W. Sulzbach. 1821. Reply to a critique by J. H. Miro.^[3]
• Resise ha-melitzah. Dyhernfurth: Löb Sulzbach. 1822.
• Mafteaḥ beit David. Breslau: Löb Sulzbach. 1823.
• Metzi'at Amerika. Breslau. 1824. On the discovery of America, after Campe.
• Robinson der Jüngere (in Hebrew). Breslau: Löb Sulzbach. 1824. Also after Campe.
• Aguddat shoshannim, Hebräische Gedichtsammlung. Breslau: Löbel Sulzbach und Sohn. 1825.
• Halikot 'olam, ein Sittendrama. Breslau. 1829.
• Esh dat / Ohel David / Shire David. Breslau: Löbel Sulzbach und Sohn. 1834. Textbook of Hebrew instruction in three parts.
• Rigshat nafshi. Breslau. 1835. Poem in honor of the visit of King Frederick William III to Breslau.
• Nahar me-Eden. Breslau: Löb Sulzbach. 1836. Based on Johann Hübner's Christian Bible for children.^[4]
• Kol nehi. Breslau. 1840. Elegy on the death of Frederick William III.
• Kol anot simḥa. Löb Sulzbach. 1841.
• Re'ot Midian; o, yaldut Moshe (in Hebrew). Breslau: Hirsch Sulzbach. 1843.
• Le-ḥanukkat beit ha-tefilla. Hebräische Gesänge zu der Montag den 10. September 1855 stattfindenden Einweihungsfeier des neuen israelitischen Tempels in Leipzig (in Hebrew and German). Leipzig. 1855.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)