Marcus Weissmann-Chajes

Marcus Weissmann-Chajes (מרדכי ווייסמאן־חיות; January 17, 1831 – April 30, 1914) also known by the Hebrew acronym MV"Ḥ (מו״ח), was a Galician Jewish writer.

Biography
Marcus Weissmann-Chajes was born in Tarnów in 1830, the son of Yitzḥak Leib. He was destined for a rabbinical career, and began at a young age to receive instruction in the Talmud and in rabbinics. Among his tutors were Israel Katz Rapoport, then av beit din of Tarnów. When only ten years of age he began writing Hebrew poetry, and five years later he wrote his Mappalat ha-mitkashsherim, a metrical composition on the failure of the Polish revolt. Part of this work appeared in the Maggid Mishneh (1872) under the title Aḥarit mered.

In 1872 he founded in Lemberg the Maggid Mishneh, a semimonthly periodical devoted to Jewish history and to Hebrew literature; of this publication, however, only four numbers appeared. In the following year he settled in Vienna, where he edited the thirty-seventh number of Kokheve Yitzḥak. During the years 1874 to 1876 he edited the Wiener Jüdische Zeitung, a Yiddish weekly.

Publications

 * An alphabetically arranged collection of Talmudic proverbs rendered into metrical rimes.
 * Elegies on the deaths of Mordecai Zeeb Ettinger and Jacob Gutwirth.
 * Index and glosses to the Jerusalem Talmud, appended to the Krotoschin edition.
 * Collection of literary-historical, philological and poetic essays promoting study of the Hebrew language.
 * Parables and legends rendered into metrical verse.
 * The 613 commandments derived by means of notarikon from "bereshit."
 * Epigrams and humorous sayings in verse.
 * Polemic against Georg Ritter von Schönerer.
 * Second edition of the Mashal u-melitzah, in which the Talmudic proverbs are supplied with rimed explanations.
 * Second edition of the Mashal u-melitzah, in which the Talmudic proverbs are supplied with rimed explanations.