Wednesday 17 August 2016

F. M. ZILBERMAN

F. M. ZILBERMAN
            The father of Yisroel Zilberman, he hailed from Lithuania.  He lived in Kovno, Vilna, and Odessa.  He authored the textbook: Ershte unterrikht in der frantseyzishn shprakhe (Initial lessons in the French language), two parts, with a foreword in Hebrew.  This book (104 pp.) was published in Vilna-Grodno in 1836 and is considered the first French textbook in the Yiddish language.  It contains twenty-three lessons of grammar, conversations, and a short Yiddish-French dictionary.

Sources: Zalmen Reyzen, in Yivo-bleter (Vilna) 1.3 (1931), p. 205; Dr. Y. Shtaski, Di kultur geshikhte fun der haskole in lite (The cultural history of the Jewish Enlightenment in Lithuania) (Buenos Aires, 1950), p. 90.
Khayim Leyb Fuks


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