On October 15, 1906, Samuel Isaac Joseph Schereschewsky, the Jewish-born, rabbinical school-trained, former Anglican bishop of Shanghai, died in Tokyo, after a lengthy illness, at age 75. Apart from the novelty interest of a converted Jew becoming a church official and serving in the exotic East, Schereschewsky is remembered for having produced a much-respected translation into Mandarin Chinese of the Hebrew Bible, among other sacred texts, which became the standard 20th-century translation.<\/p>\n
Samuel Schereschewsky was born on May 6, 1831, in Tauroggen, a Jewish shtetl in the Russian empire, in what is today southwest Lithuania. Both of his parents \u201d\u201c the former Rosa Salvatha, of Sephardi-Jewish heritage, and Samuel Joseph Schereschewsky \u201d\u201c died when he was very young. Samuel was apparently raised by a much older half-brother, a timber merchant who was the product of his father\u2019s first marriage.<\/p>\n
At age 15, he left his brother\u2019s home, and held jobs as a glazier and as a Hebrew tutor before entering the rabbinical seminary in Zhytomir, in Ukraine.<\/p>\n
Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n Monday we remember Samuel Isaac Joseph Scherechewsky, Bishop of Shanghai, 1906. Schereschewsky completed his translation of the Bible, typing some 2,000 pages with the middle finger of his partially crippled hand. pic.twitter.com\/89I8eVkFSm<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Louisville Cathedral (@ChristChurchLou) October 13, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n