Abraham Trebitsch

Abraham ben Reuben Trebitsch (born at Trebitsch, Moravia, about 1760; died at Nikolsburg in the first half of the nineteenth century) was an Austrian-Jewish scholar.

He attended the yeshibah of at Prague in 1775 ("Ḳorot ha-'Ittim," p. 24a), and then settled in Nikolsburg, where he became secretary to the Landesrabbiner.

He was the author of "Ḳorot ha-'Ittim," a history of the European monarchs, including the emperors of Austria, from 1741 to 1801 (part i., Brünn, 1801; with additions, under the title "Ḳorot Nosafot," up to the year 1830, by , Lemberg, 1841). It deals especially with the history and literature of the Jews in the Austrian states. Trebitsch's work is a continuation of 's "She'erit Yisrael," which traces the history down to the year 1740.^[1]

Trebitsch, with , was the author of "Ruaḥ Ḥayyim," a story of the exorcising of an evil spirit that possessed a young man (published in Hebrew and Yiddish, Nikolsburg, 1785; Frankfurt (Oder), 1794).

References[]

• Benjacob, Oẓar ha-Sefarim, p. 527, No. 327;
• Julius Fürst, Bibl. Jud. iii. 442;
• Zedner, Cat. Hebr. Books Brit. Mus. p. 176.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; et al., eds. (1901–1906). "Trebitsch, Abraham ben Reuben Hayyat". The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.