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Pollak, Joachim (Ḥayyim Joseph)
The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia
Austrian rabbi; born in Hungary in 1798; died at Trebitsch, Moravia, Dec. 16, 1879, where he officiated as rabbi from 1828 until his death. He wrote a commentary, entitled "Meḳor Ḥayyim" (Presburg, 1849; 3d ed. Warsaw, 1885), on R. Isaac Arama's philosophical work "'Aḳedat Yiẓḥaḳ," and a biography of the same scholar. Pollak was also the author of a number of Hebrew songs in the annual "Bikkure ha-'Ittim," and of a scholarly essay on the Talmudic rules of the in Stern's "Kebuẓat Ḥakamim," besides being a regular contributor to many Hebrew periodicals.
Bibliography:- Fuenn, Keneset Yisrael, p. 366;
- Fürst, Bibl. Jud. 3:111;
- Neuzeit, 1879, pp. 402-412;
- Ha-Maggid, 1880, p. 21;
- Zeitlin, Ḳiryat Sefer, 2:277.
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Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Pollak, Joachim (Ḥayyim Joseph)'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tje/​p/pollak-joachim-ayyim-joseph.html. 1901.