Aaron Walden

Male, Deceased Person

1835 – 1912

85

Who was Aaron Walden?

Aaron Walden was a Polish Jewish Talmudist, editor, and author.

Walden, who was an ardent adherent of Ḥasidism, is known especially for his "Shem ha-Gedolim he-Ḥadash", a work of the same nature as Azulai's "Shem ha-Gedolim." Like the latter, it consists of two parts:

⁕"Ma'areket Gedolim," being an alphabetical list of the names of authors and rabbis, mostly those that lived after Azulai, but including also many of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries who were omitted by Azulai; and

⁕"Ma'areket Sefarim," an alphabetical list of book-titles.

Walden himself says in his preface that he took Azulai's "Shem ha-Gedolim" as a model; and it is evident that he refers to Isaac Benjacob's edition of that work. The alphabetical list in the first part is arranged only according to the first names of the persons mentioned. In many instances the names are accompanied by biographical sketches, especially of Ḥasidic rabbis, whose biographies contain records of the miracles wrought by them and in behalf of them. To the third edition of the work, published in 1882 by Walden's son Joseph Aryeh Löb, the latter added an appendix entitled "'En Zoker," containing names and book-titles omitted in the two previous editions.

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Born
1835
Warsaw
Died
1912

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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