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Isaac Rivkind (transcription)

Isaac Rivkind (1895–1968), born in Łodz, Poland, was a librarian, scholar, and Zionist activist. He studied at the yeshivot of Volozhin and Ponevezh. During World War Ⅰ and afterward, he helped organize the Mizrachi movement of Poland. In 1917 Rivkind founded the Tse'irei Mizrachi in Lodz and in 1919–20 was a member of the Jewish National Council of Poland. In 1920 he was a delegate to the London Zionist Conference and from there proceeded to the U.S. to work on behalf of Mizrachi. In 1923 he began to work in the library of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, New York, eventually becoming chief of the Hebraica section. He was a co-founder of the U.S. branch of the Yiddish Scientific Institute (YIVO); on the executive of the Hebrew pen Club of the U.S.A.; and a fellow of the American Academy for Jewish Research. During World War Ⅱ and in the immediate postwar years he was the national chairman in the U.S. of the League for Religious Labor in Palestine. Rivkind was the author of significant studies and essays in many fields, notably in Jewish bibliography, ethnography and folklore, Yiddish philology, and Zionism.

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📖 מְגִלַּת ר׳ מֵאִיר שַ״ץ (מעשה האקדמות) | The Fantastic Tale of Rabbi Meïr — a legendary frame tale for the Aqdamut read on Shavuot (Fürth 1694)

Contributed by: Morris M. Faierstein (translation), Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Isaac Rivkind (transcription), Unknown

This is a transcription of the Megillat Aqdamut (also known by other names) in its first printing in Yiddish, in Fürth 1694. The transcription is based on an earlier transcription of the Fürth 1694 printing published by Isaac Rivkind in “די היסטאָרישע אַלעגאָריע פון ר׳ מאיר שַ״ץ” (“The Historical Allegory of Rabbi Meir, shatz [Shaliaḥ Tsibur]”) the first chapter in Filologishe shriftn vol. 3 (1929), pp. 1-42. (The transcription of the Aqdamut appears on pages/numbered columns 12-33.) The legendary retelling serves as a frame tale for the recitation of the Aramaqic targumic piyyut, Aqdamut Milin, by Rabbi Meir ben Yitsḥaq Nehorai of Orléans (d. ca. 1095).


אַקְדָמּוּת אי איך אן היבּ צו רידן | אַקְדָמּוּת מִלִּין — Aqdamut Milin, a piyyuṭ for introducing the Decalogue by Rabbi Meir ben Yitsḥaq Nehorai of Orléans (Yiddish translation, 1694)

Contributed by: Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Isaac Rivkind (transcription), Unknown (translation), Meir ben Isaac Nehorai of Orléans

This is the targumic Aramaic piyyut, Aqdamut Milin by Rabbi Meir ben Yitsḥaq Nehorai of Orléans, with a Yiddish translation from 1694. The translation is appended to the first known printing of the Maaséh Aqdamut (Fürth 1694). This legendary story served as a frame tale for the recitation of the piyyut at the outset of the reading of the Decalogue on Shavuot. The transcription is based on an earlier transcription of the Fürth 1694 printing published by Isaac Rivkind in “די היסטאָרישע אַלעגאָריע פון ר׳ מאיר שַ״ץ” (“The Historical Allegory of Rabbi Meir, shatz [Shaliaḥ Tsibur]”) the first chapter in Filologishe shriftn vol. 3 (1929), pp. 1-42. (This translation of the Aqdamut appears on pages/numbered columns 36-40.)


ארכין ער נײגט גאט דען הימל אױף בּערג סיני | אַרְכִּין ה׳ שְׁמַיָּא — Arkin Hashem Shemaya, a piyyut narrating the ascent of Mosheh (Yiddish translation, 1694)

Contributed by: Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Isaac Rivkind (transcription), Unknown (translation), Unknown

The Yiddish translation of the Aramaic piyyut “Arkin” is appended to the first known printing of the Maaséh Aqdamut (Fürth 1694). The transcription is based on an earlier transcription of the Fürth 1694 printing published by Isaac Rivkind in “די היסטאָרישע אַלעגאָריע פון ר׳ מאיר שַ״ץ” (“The Historical Allegory of Rabbi Meir, shatz [Shaliaḥ Tsibur]”) the first chapter in Filologishe shriftn vol. 3 (1929), pp. 1-42. (This translation of the Aqdamut appears on pages/numbered columns 40-42.)



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