Mordecai Plungian

Mordecai Plungian (Marcus Plungianski; 1814-1883) was a Lithuanian rabbi, Talmudist, and Hebrew author associated with the maskilim, or the writers of the haskalah movement (the Jewish enlightenment).^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

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Mordecai Plungian

Born	13 September 1814
Died	27 November 1883 (aged 69)

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Biography

He was born in Plungė and built a reputation as a Talmudist at a young age before moving to Troki, where his new ideas offended the ultra-conservatives, so he moved to Wilna, where he gave rabbinical lectures and began secular studies, including European literature and languages. He got a job as a high school teacher before becoming an instructor of Talmud at the rabbinical seminary in 1867. The seminary closed in 1873, and he worked as a corrector in a printing office.^[6]

Plungian was a descendant of Mordecai Jaffe.^[7]^[8] He was a friend of Alexander Harkavy.^[1]

Plungian was accused by the liberals of being a conservative, but angered the Orthodox as well who accused him of heresy.^[6] His 1856 book Ben Porat was the subject of a censorship controversy, but he received assistance from Abraham Firkovich.^[9] The work was a biography of Manasseh of Ilya.^[2]^[10]

He died in Wilna in 1883.^[6]

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Talpiyyot (Wilna, 1849), on the hermeneutic rule Gezerah Shawah in the Babylonian Talmud
Ben Porat (1856), biography of Manasseh of Ilya
Shebeṭ Eloah (ib. 1862), arguments against blood libel
Or Boḳer (ib. 1868), critical treatises on the Masorah as interpreted in the Talmud
Kerem li-Shelomoh (1857), a commentary on Kohelet^[11]
- Plungian, Mordecai (1837). כרם לשלמה (in Hebrew). Rom.
- "A vineyard for Solomon by Mordechai ben Rabbi Shlomo Plungian כרם לשלמה -- פלונגיאן, מרדכי ב"ר שלמה". HebrewBooks.org (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2024-12-22.
"מרדכי פלונגיאן - דף יוצר - פרויקט בן־יהודה Mordechai Plongian". benyehuda.org (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2024-12-22.
"Mordechai Plungian (1814-1883), 1878, notebook of sermons, poems, commentary". Center for Jewish History. Retrieved 2024-12-22.
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