Joseph Perl, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Joseph Perl

Jewish writer

Date of Birth: 10-Nov-1773

Place of Birth: Ternopil, Tarnopol Voivodeship, Ukraine

Date of Death: 01-Oct-1839

Profession: translator, author

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Joseph Perl (also Josef Perl; November 10, 1773, Ternopil – October 1, 1839, Ternopil), was an Ashkenazi Jewish educator and writer, a scion of the Haskalah or Jewish Enlightenment.
He wrote in Hebrew, Yiddish, and German; in 1819, he published the first Hebrew novel.
Born and raised in the Austrian province of Galicia shortly after its annexation in the first partition of Poland, he was a follower of Hasidism in his youth.
Later, he turned against Hasidism and became a proponent of Jewish emancipation and Haskalah, although he remained an observant Jew.
He is best known for his many writings on Hasidism, ranging from critical treatises to parody.