Simon Bondi

Simon Bondi (Yiddish: שמעון באנדי, romanized: Shimʻon Bondi; 1774 – 20 December 1816)^[2] was a German maskil and lexicographer of the Talmud.

Title page of Or Ester (1812).

Simon Bondi
Born	1774 (1774)
Died	20 December 1816(1816-12-20) (aged 41–42) Dresden, Kingdom of Saxony, German Confederation
Literary movement	Haskalah[1]

He wrote, together with his brother Mordecai (Marcus) (Wikidata), 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.^[3] The periodical Jedidja (i. 117–125) contains a biographical obituary of Simon by his brother Mordecai.^[4]

Bondi was related to the author Bernhard Beer (de) and the court factor and banker Simon Isaac Bondi.^[5][6] His sister Sophie married into the Warburg family of Hamburg.^[6]

Bibliography

• Or Esther, oder Beleuchtung der im Talmud von Babylon und Jerusalem in den Targumim und Midraschim vorkommenden fremden besonders lateinischen Wörter (PDF) (in Hebrew and German). Dessau: M. Philippsohn. 1812.