Reb Nachman of Breslov & The Professor at Cambridge. HERMANN BERNARD MA & Phil D As well known as Hirsch Ber Horowitz

After extensive research and on the ground evidence, we have found and can confirm, Bernard Hermann Hebrew Teaching and Professor at Cambridge, Original Hebrew name Hirsch Ber Horowitz. The one where in the diary of Reb Nosson a Talmud of Reb Nachman, write about the two who came to Travel to Uman to meet Reb Nachman and aswell where his parents lived.

Hirsch Ber had close connection with Reb Nahcman of Breslov who was Rav of Uman.

Site of the Burial

Mill Road Cemetery, Cambridge CB1 2LG Lat Lon: 52.202723, 0.13804756

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History of Hirsch Ber with Rabbi Nachman:

History of Hirsch Ber at Cambridge:

Aged 72’ Hermann Bernard (1785-1857)

Hermann Bernard lived in Cambridge and taught Hebrew at Cambridge University for around 20 years until his death.

He received his MA and PhD from the University of Giessen in the Grand Duchy of Hessen-Darmstadt (near Frankfurt in Germany), and it is thought he may have changed his surname from ‘Hurwitz’ at some point. ( Ohel Zadikim Can confirm it is the case that his original name was Hirsch Ber Hurwitz) An apostate from Judaism, Bernard was born Hirsch Ber Hurwitz and hailed from Uman, Ukraine. He is purported to have played chess with and read German stories before Rabbi. source: Chaim Liberman "Rabbi Nakhman Bratslaver and the Maskilim of Uman," published originally in Yiddish in the Yivo Bleter 29 (1947) and also in English a few years later in the YIVO Annual

Bio:

born of Austrian parents at Uman, or Human, a small town in southern Russia (at that time Poland), in the year 1785. His father being a converted Jew, he was brought up as a Christian. He went to England in 1825; settled in Cambridge as a private teacher in 1830; and was appointed "Præceptor Linguæ Sacræ" in the university on Oct. 18, 1837, succeeding Josephus Crool. He died at Cambridge, aged seventy-two, on Nov. 15, 1857, after teaching there with marked success for twenty-seven years.

Bernard published the following works: "The Creed and Ethics of the Jews Exhibited in Selections from the Yad ha-Ḥazaḳah of Maimonides" (1832); and "Ha-Menahel" (The Guide of the Hebrew Student), 1839. During Bernard's blindness in 1853 appeared "Me Menuḥot" (Still Waters), an easy, practical Hebrew grammar, in two volumes, by the Rev. P. H. Mason (afterward fellow and president of St. John's College) and Hermann Bernard. Bernard's lectures on the Book of Job, edited by his former pupil, Frank Chance (afterward a member of the Old Testament Revision Committee), appeared in one volume in 1864, but the editor's promised appendix was never published.

Inscription : To the Memory of HERMANN BERNARD MA & Phil D of the University of Giessen in Hesse Dermstadt for many years Hebrew teacher to the University of Cambridge d Nov 16 1857 aged 72

Monument : Obelisk

Monument

This unusual, weathered obelisk was constructed in 1857, from pink-coloured Ketton limestone. At each corner around the base there are four moulded stone bollards with pyramidal tops. There is an inscription in English and Hebrew on the obelisk, The Hebrew inscription is illegible.

He was the author of:

The main principles of the Creed and Ethics of the Jews exhibited in selections from the Yad Hachazakah of Maimonides, with a literal English translation, copious illustrations from the Talmud, &c., and a collection of the abbreviations commonly used in Rabbinical writings, Cambridge, 1832, 8vo,
The Guide of the Hebrew Student, containing an Epitome of Sacred History, London, 1839, 8vo, Cambridge Free Thoughts and Letters on Bibliolatry, translated from the German of Lessing, Cambridge, 1862, 8vo, edited by J. Bernard, and
The Book of Job, as expounded to his Cambridge pupils, edited, with a translation and additional notes, by F. Chance, London, 1864, 1884, 8vo.