Naphtali Wolf Tur

Naphtali Wolf Tur
Born	Vilna, Vilna Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	(1885-05-29)29 May 1885
Language	Hebrew
Genre	Poetry

Naphtali Wolf Tur (Hebrew: נפתלי זאב טור, romanized: Naftali Ze'ev Tur; died 29 May 1885)^{[note 1]} was a Russian Hebraist of Jewish descent.

Born in Vilna, Tur settled in Warsaw, where he taught Hebrew and several modern languages. He was a talented poet; but, owing to his untimely death, most of his productions remained unpublished, including a collection of verse entitled Benot ha-shir.^[2] Those poems which were printed include Ha-yovel, a long poem in honour of Sir Moses Montefiore's centenary, Geveret ha-ḥeshbon, and El ha-ishah.^[1] Several of his poems were published in Avrom Ber Gotlober's Ha-boker or.^[3]

Partial bibliography

• Ha-yovel. Warsaw: Isaac Goldman. 1884.
• "Geveret ha-ḥeshbon". Ha-Asif. 2. Warsaw: Isaac Goldman: 556–558. 1885.
• "El ha-ishah". Ha-Asif. 2. Warsaw: Isaac Goldman: 558–561. 1885.
• "Hegionei kayitz". Ha-Asif. 3. Warsaw: Isaac Goldman: 669–672. 1886.
• "Le-yedidi Hashem... / Ha-meshorer". Ha-Asif. 5. Warsaw: Isaac Goldman: 16. 1889.

Notes

1. 8 June 1884, according to William Zeitlin.^[1]

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; Seligsohn, M. (1906). "Tur, Naphtali Wolf". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 12. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 277.

1. Zeitlin, William (1890). "Tur, Naftali Wolf". Bibliotheca hebraica post-Mendelssohniana (in German). Leipzig: K. F. Koehler's Antiquarium. pp. 400–401.
2. Katznelson, J. L., ed. (1913). "Тур, Нафтали Вольф"  [Tur, Naftali Vol'f]. Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron (in Russian). Vol. 15. St. Petersburg: Brockhaus & Efron. pp. 67–68.
3.  Singer, Isidore; Seligsohn, M. (1906). "Tur, Naphtali Wolf". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 12. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 277.