Jacob Samuel Bick

Jacob Samuel Bick (Hebrew: יַעֲקֹב שְׁמוּאֵל בִּיק‎; 6 July 1772 – 21 May 1831) was a Galician Maskilic author, playwright, and translator. Bick translated a number of French and English poems into Hebrew, and published biographies of Menachem Mendel Lefin, Ephraim Zalman Margolioth, Judah Leib Ben-Ze'ev, and others. His contributions to the , , and other Hebrew publications of his time contain strong pleas for the spread of secular knowledge and industry among Galician Jews; and, like many of his contemporaries among the Maskilim, he was strongly in favor of agricultural pursuits by Jews.

Jacob Samuel Bick

Jacob Samuel Bick (Hebrew: יַעֲקֹב שְׁמוּאֵל בִּיק‎; 6 July 1772 – 21 May 1831) was a Galician Maskilic author, playwright, and translator. Bick translated a number of French and English poems into Hebrew, and published biographies of Menachem Mendel Lefin, Ephraim Zalman Margolioth, Judah Leib Ben-Ze'ev, and others. His contributions to the , , and other Hebrew publications of his time contain strong pleas for the spread of secular knowledge and industry among Galician Jews; and, like many of his contemporaries among the Maskilim, he was strongly in favor of agricultural pursuits by Jews.