David Samoscz

David ben Joseph Samoscz (דוד בן יוסף זאַמושׁטשׁ; 29 December 1789 – 29 April 1864) was a German author of Hebrew children's literature.

Born in Kempen, Province of Posen, he went at an early age to Breslau, where he was a tutor and private teacher until 1822, when he entered business. Having met with reverses he toward the end of his life devoted himself again to literature. He was a prolific author of stories for the young, written in Hebrew and adapted mainly from the German, and of textbooks of instruction in the Jewish religion.

Work
Samoscz contributed Hebrew poems to periodicals, such as Bikkure ha-Ittim, and to the works of his Breslau friends, M. B. Friedenthal, Jacob Raphael Fürstenthal, and others. His other works include the following:


 * History of the conversion of Joseph Steblitzki, written in German with Hebrew characters.
 * Reply to a critique by J. H. Miro.
 * On the discovery of America, after Campe.
 * Also after Campe.
 * Textbook of Hebrew instruction in three parts.
 * Poem in honor of the visit of King Frederick William III to Breslau.
 * Based on Johann Hübner's Christian Bible for children.
 * Elegy on the death of Frederick William III.
 * Also after Campe.
 * Textbook of Hebrew instruction in three parts.
 * Poem in honor of the visit of King Frederick William III to Breslau.
 * Based on Johann Hübner's Christian Bible for children.
 * Elegy on the death of Frederick William III.
 * Based on Johann Hübner's Christian Bible for children.
 * Elegy on the death of Frederick William III.