Zomber, Dov Baer
ZOMBER, DOV BAER
ZOMBER, DOV BAER (Bernhard ; 1821–1884), rabbinic scholar. Zomber was born in Lask, Poland, and studied under the rabbis Joske Spiro of Inowroclaw and Jacob Ettlinger, as well as at the university in Wuerzburg. After settling in Berlin, he taught Talmud there and maintained a boarding house for pupils. In 1871 he was appointed lecturer in Talmud at the bet ha-midrash in Berlin, where he served until his death.
He edited the Shitah Mekubbeẓet on tractate Nedarim (1860), and Hilkhot Pesaḥim of Isaac *Ibn Ghayyat with Zomber's own commentary (1864). He wrote Ma'amar al Perush Rashi le-ha-Massekhtot Nedarim u-Mo'ed Katan (1867), a study on Rashi's commentaries on the treatises of Nedarim and Mo'ed Katan, and Moreh Derekh (1870), on Rabbenu Gershom's and Rashi's commentaries on tractate Mo'ed Katan. Against the latter Raphael Nathan Nata *Rabbinovicz wrote his Kunteres Moreh ha-Moreh (1871). Contributions of his were published in Ha-Maggid and in the Magazin fuer die Wissenschaft des Judenthums. His study on Judah ben Yakar, an early commentator on the Jerusalem Talmud, which appeared first in the Monatsschrift fuer Geschichte und Wissenschaft des Judenthums (1860), was subsequently printed in a Hebrew version with additions by the author in Ha-Karmel (1863).
bibliography:
Die juedische Presse, 15 (1884), 236f.; Fuenn, Keneset, 187; P.Z. Gliksman, Ir Lask va-Ḥakhameha (1926), 76.
[Tovia Preschel]