{{Short description|Lithuanian Hebrew writer (1822–1894)}} {{Infobox writer | name=Isaac Rumsch | image= | image_size= | caption= | native_name= | native_name_lang= | pseudonym= | birth_name= | birth_date={{birth date|1822|04|06|df=y}} | birth_place=Zezemer, Vilna Governorate, Russian Empire | death_date={{death date and age|1894|08|21|1822|04|06|df=y}} | death_place= Vilnius | resting_place= | occupation= Writer | language=Hebrew, German | alma_mater= | genre= | subject= | movement=Haskalah | notableworks= | spouse= | children= | awards= | years_active= }} '''Isaac ben Moses Rumsch''' ({{Langx|he|יצחק בן־משה רומש|translit=Yitsḥaḳ ben-Mosheh Rumsh}}; 6 April 1822 – 21 August 1894) was a Lithuanian Hebrew writer, translator, and educator.
==Biography== page=5|thumb|right|200px|Title page of ''Kin'at sifre kodesh'' (1873) Isaac Rumsch was born in the village of Zezemer.{{r|sokolow}} At the age of nine he went to Vilna, where he studied the Talmud in the ''yeshiva'' of his brother Joseph Rumsch, and then in that of Rabbi {{ill|Mordecai Melzer|he|מרדכי מלצר}}. Subsequently he acquired a knowledge of German and other secular subjects; but his plan of going to Germany to obtain a scientific education was frustrated by his disapproving relatives. When in 1853 the Russian government opened public schools for Jewish children in the government of Vilna, he, together with his friend Judah Löb Gordon, was appointed a teacher in the school of Ponevyezh.{{r|sokolow}}
Besides numerous novels, he contributed articles to ''Ha-Karmel'' and ''Ha-Melitz'' and left in manuscript some Hebrew stories and notes on the Bible.
==Publications== * {{cite book|title=Kur 'oni|location=Vilna|date=1861|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hw5p24}} A free Hebrew translation of ''Robinson Crusoe'' from the German of Franz Rauch.{{r|zeitlin}} * {{cite book|title=Kin'at sifre kodesh|location=Vilna|date=1873|url=https://www.nli.org.il/he/books/NNL_ALEPH002071039/NLI}} Critical glosses on {{ill|Leon Mandelstamm|he|לאון מנדלשטם}}'s Russian translation of the Psalms, together with notes on some of them. * {{cite book|title=Shelumat resha'im|location=Vilna|publisher=Lipman|date=1875|hdl=2027/nnc1.cu58945199 |url=https://hdl.handle.net/2027/nnc1.cu58945199}} A story of Jewish life, published alongside the Hebrew novel ''Ḥatikhat bad''.{{r|zeitlin}} * {{cite book|title=Megillat Ester ha-sheniyah|location=Vilna|publisher=Lipman|date=1883|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hw5mt2}} A historical novel of Esterka, the mistress Polish king Casimir the Great. * {{cite journal|title=Bat-ḥayil|journal=Ha-Asif|date=1889|volume=5|pages=1–47|url=https://www.nli.org.il/he/books/NNL_ALEPH002044589/NLI}} A historical novel of Jewish life in Spain in the fourteenth century, freely translated from Ludwig Philippson.{{r|zeitlin}} * {{cite book|title=Seʻar she-be-ishah|location=Vilna|publisher=Romm|date=1894|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hw5l6p}}
==References== {{Jewish Encyclopedia|article=Rumsch, Isaac Moses|url=https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/12940-rumsch-isaac-moses|first1=Herman|last1=Rosenthal|first2=Jacob Zallel|last2=Lauterbach|volume=10|page=517}} {{Reflist|refs= <ref name=zeitlin>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Rumsch, Isaak|last=Zeitlin|first=William|author-link=William Zeitlin|encyclopedia=Bibliotheca hebraica post-Mendelssohniana|location=Leipzig|publisher=K. F. Koehler's Antiquarium|year=1890|language=de|page=324|url=https://archive.org/details/kiryatseferbibl00zeitgoog/page/323/mode/2up}}</ref> <ref name=sokolow>{{cite book|last=Sokolow|first=Naḥum|author-link=Nahum Sokolow|title=Sefer zikaron le-sofrei Israel ha-ḥayim itanu ka-yom|trans-title=Memoir Book of Contemporary Jewish Writers|date=1889|location=Warsaw|language=he|pages=107–108|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D0k8AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA107}}</ref> }}
==External links== * [https://merhav.nli.org.il/primo-explore/search?query=creator,contains,%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%A9,%20%D7%99%D7%A6%D7%97%D7%A7%20%D7%91%D7%9F%20%D7%9E%D7%A9%D7%94&vid=NLI&lang=iw_IL Works by Rumsch] at the National Library of Israel
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