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<category>Background<fn>This page incorporates information from E. Breuer,"Between Haskalah and Orthodoxy: The Writings of R. Jacob Zvi Meklenberg," HUCA 66 (1995): 259-87, and the doctoral thesis of M. Dell, "פרשנות אורתודוקסית לתורה בעידן של תמורות – הפולמוס בפירושיהם של רי"צ מקלנבורג ומלבים", Bar Ilan University, 2008.</fn>
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<category>Background<fn>This section incorporates information from E. Breuer,"Between Haskalah and Orthodoxy: The Writings of R. Jacob Zvi Meklenberg," HUCA 66 (1995): 259-87, and the doctoral thesis of M. Dell, "פרשנות אורתודוקסית לתורה בעידן של תמורות – הפולמוס בפירושיהם של רי"צ מקלנבורג ומלבים", Bar Ilan University, 2008 (hereafter: Dell, Parshanut).</fn>
 
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<li><b>Contemporaries</b> –&#160;R. Samuel David Luzzatto,<fn>Despite being a younger contemporary, Shadal had significant impact on R. Mecklenburg's work.</fn> R.Tzvi Hirsch Kalischer<fn>R. Mecklenburg wrote an approbation to R. Kalischer's Derishat Tzion.</fn></li>
 
<li><b>Contemporaries</b> –&#160;R. Samuel David Luzzatto,<fn>Despite being a younger contemporary, Shadal had significant impact on R. Mecklenburg's work.</fn> R.Tzvi Hirsch Kalischer<fn>R. Mecklenburg wrote an approbation to R. Kalischer's Derishat Tzion.</fn></li>
 
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<li><b>Time period</b> –&#160;R. Mecklenburg lived through times of great social upheaval including&#160;Jewish emancipation, and the Haskalah and Reform movements. Despite his anti-Reform agenda, R. Mecklenburg operated within a united Jewish community in Koenigsburg, where the Reform community was relatively moderate and respected, to some extent, R. Mecklenburg's authority.<fn>See Dell, Parshanut: 25-26.</fn></li>
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<li><b>Biblical commentaries</b> –&#160;HaKetav VeHaKabbalah on the Torah<fn>The work was intended to defend Orthodoxy against Reform by showing how the Oral Law - traditional Rabbinic exegesis - is contained within the Torah text (hence the name: Ketav – text, Kabbalah – tradition). R. Mecklenburg published an initial version in 1839, and revised editions in 1852 and 1856. A further revised posthumous edition was published in 1880. See N. Ben Menachem, "Shtei Iggrot R. Yaakov Tzvi Meklenburg", Sinai 65 (1969), pp. 327-332, and E. Brodt, "<a href="http://seforim.blogspot.co.il/2011/11/using-works-of-shadal-and-r-n-h-wessely.html">Using the works of Shadal and R. N. H. Wessely</a>," published on seforim.blogspot.co.il.</fn></li>
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<li><b>Other works&#160;</b>–&#160;R. Mecklenburg's extant letters and approbations are important sources for his history and thought.<fn>See Breuer, Between Haskalah, and Dell, Parshanut: 26-28.</fn></li>
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R. Yaakov Mecklenburg
R. Yaakov Mecklenburg
Name
R. Yaakov Mecklenburg
ר' יעקב צבי בן גמליאל מקלנבורג
Dates1785-1865
LocationGnesen, Koenigsberg
WorksHaKetav VeHaKabbalah
Exegetical Characteristics
Influenced byShadal
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Background1

Life

  • Name – 
    • Hebrew name – ר' יעקב צבי בן גמליאל מקלנבורג
  • Dates – 1785-1865
  • Location – R. Mecklenburg spent much of his youth in Inowroclaw,2and lived in Gnesen, and Koenigsberg.
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  • Family – – His daughter married R. Baruch Gollub.
  • Teachers – R. Zecharyah Mendel b. R. David Tevele3
  • Contemporaries – R. Samuel David Luzzatto,4 R.Tzvi Hirsch Kalischer5
  • Students – 
  • Time period – R. Mecklenburg lived through times of great social upheaval including Jewish emancipation, and the Haskalah and Reform movements. Despite his anti-Reform agenda, R. Mecklenburg operated within a united Jewish community in Koenigsburg, where the Reform community was relatively moderate and respected, to some extent, R. Mecklenburg's authority.6
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Works

  • Biblical commentaries – HaKetav VeHaKabbalah on the Torah7
  • Rabbinics – 
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    • Halakhic codes – 
    • Responses to the works of others – 
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  • Jewish thought – Iyyun Tefilah8
  • Other works – R. Mecklenburg's extant letters and approbations are important sources for his history and thought.9
  • Misattributed works – 

Torah Commentary

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Occasional Usage

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Impact

Later exegetes

Supercommentaries