Creator Bio
Isaac Bekhor Amarachi
In Salonika in 1845–1847, Isaac Bekhor Amarachi operated a printing press that produced Hebrew and Ladino books. Among them were parts of the Zohar (1845) and a Ladino translation of Pinḥas Horowitz’s Sefer ha-berit (1847). Amarachi also translated a Hebrew biography of Moses Montefiore into Ladino.
Content by Isaac Bekhor Amarachi
Primary Source
Sefer musar haskel (Book of Moral Lessons)
We translated Musar haskel for the following five reasons:
The first is that our hearts have become so hardened that instruction does not easily penetrate them. This is why we wrote this educational…
Related Guide
Haskalah and Pedagogy
1750–1880
The first maskilim ransacked both Jewish and European tradition to find new platforms for creating and transmitting the Jewish cultural ideals they conceived. Jews enlisted diverse literary genres to call for social, educational, and economic change.