Joel, David

Joel, David a Jewish writer, was born at Schwerin, in the duchy of Posen, in 1813. After having completed his studies he was rabbi at Schwersentz and then at Krotoschin. In 1879 he was called to the Talmudic chair of the Rabbinical Seminary at Breslau, where he died, September 8, 1882. He is the author of מדרש הזהר, or Die Religions philosophie des Sohar (Leipsic, 1849). (B.P.)