Bella bat Jakob Perlhefter (Isabell, Bilah, born c. 1650 in
Prague, modern
Czech Republic; died 1709 in Prague) was a professional
Hebrew letter writer, businesswoman and instructor of music. She corresponded with her husband
Behr Perlhefter and with the Christian polymath
Johann Christoph Wagenseil in Hebrew. She wrote the preface of the Yiddish book “Beer Sheva” (Seven Springs).
External links
Elisheva Carlebach:
Bella Perlhefter. In: Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia. 1 March 2009. Jewish Women's Archive.
Elisheva Carlebach:
The Letters of Bella Perlhefter, Lecture on the Early Modern Workshop. Volume 1: Early Modern Jewries, 2004, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT.
Nathanael Riemer: Zwischen Tradition und Häresie. ´Beer Sheva` – eine Enzyklopädie des jüdischen Wissens der Frühen Neuzeit. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2010, pp. 12–66.
Nathanael Riemer; Sigrid Senkbeil (eds.): "´Beer Sheva` by Beer and Bella Perlhefter. An Edition of a Seventeenth Century Yiddish Encyclopedia. Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz : 2011, pp. X-XVII.