Reuven Baruch

1811, Timisoara, Austrian Empire - 1875, Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire

Sephardic rabbi in Vienna

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Reuven Baruch or Reuven ben Yehuda Baruch was a Sephardic rabbi born in Timisoara, the son of the rabbi of the Sephardic community, Yehuda Baruch.


Reuven Baruch was born in Timisoara as the son of the rabbi of Spanish or Turkish Jews in the locality. He studied Talmudic in Livorno, Istanbul and Izmir. In 1840, according to other sources, 1846, Reuven Baruch was elected rabbi of the Sephardic, Turkish community in Vienna.


He encouraged the Jewish-Spanish press Judezmo or Ladino, promoted in Vienna by Shem Tov Semo and others. Rabbi Baruch was among those who contributed to Rabbi Moshe Israel Hazan's volume Nahala le Israel in Rome, published in Vienna in 1851. Both he and his son Yaakov Baruch wrote literary texts in Ladino, which appeared in the periodical "Guerta de Estorya" from Vienna. Among them is a poem about illness and death, published posthumously. Yaacov Baruch also published translations and adaptations from German or other sources - such as "The War between Greece and Persia" and "The Merchant of Venice" (El Merkader de Venetsyia).

Reuven Baruch died in Vienna in 1875.

Bibliography

  • https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuven_Baruch
  • Baruch Tercatin, Lucian-Zeev Herșcovici - Rabbinic presences in the Romanian perimeter, Hasefer, Bucarest, 2008, p. 89.
  • "Shem Tov Semo, Yosef Kalwo, and Judezmo Fiction in Nineteenth -Century Vienna" en Michael Studemund-Halévy, Christian Liebl e Ivana Vucina Simóvic, eds. Sefarad an der Donau. La lengua y literatura de los sefardíes en tierras de los Habsburgo Barcelona, Tirocinio, 2013, pp. 39-106