Naḥman Isaac Fischmann
Naḥman Isaac Fischmann (; –1873), also known by the pen name Ha-nif ha-kohen mi-Lvov (), was a Galician Hebrew-language writer, dramatist, poet, and editor. He was a member of the young Haskalah group in Lemberg, best known for his Biblical dramas Mapelet Sisra (1841) and Kesher Shevna (1870). Along with Jacob Bodek, , and , he published the controversial magazine Ha-roʼeh u-mevaḳer (Lemberg and Ofen, 1837–39), which attacked the philological and archaeological works of Samuel David Luzzatto, Isaac Samuel Reggio, and especially Solomon Judah Loeb Rapoport. Fischmann's other publications include Eshkol ʻanavim, a collection of original Hebrew poems and translations (Lemberg, 1827), Safah le-ne'emanim, a comprehensive commentary on Job (Lemberg, 1854), and the poem Ha-et ve-ha-meshorer (Lemberg, 1870). He was also a contributor to the literary publications 'Bikkure ha-Ittim and Yerushalayim ha-benuya. Bibliography
 
 
 
  
 
 

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External linksJewish Encyclopedia'': “Fischmann, Nahman Isaac” by Isidore Singer & Newell Dunbar (1906). Now in public domain. 19th-century births
1873 deaths
19th-century Austrian dramatists and playwrights
Jews from the Austrian Empire
Austrian male dramatists and playwrights
Austro-Hungarian Jews
Hebrew-language playwrights
Hebrew-language poets
Jewish dramatists and playwrights
Jewish poets
Jews from Galicia (Eastern Europe)
Literary editors
People from the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria
People of the Haskalah
Writers from Lviv