Abraham Braatbard

Abraham Hayim ben Zvi Hirsh Braatbard (1699-1786) was an 18th-century Hebrew typesetter from Amsterdam and the author of the Yiddish chronicle Ayn Nayer Kornayk fun 1740 bis 1752.

[1][2][3] Braatbard's chronicle focuses on Jewish political and community life in the Dutch Republic and is a continuation of the work of Menahem Amelander.

[4] He compares Daniel Raap to Haman, and had great confidence in William IV, Prince of Orange, who was a friend of Isaac de Pinto.

It portrays his strong opinions of the political events in Amsterdam in idiomatic Yiddish and Ashkenazic cursive according to the common usage at the time, and does not reflect above-average education.

[2] Braatbard worked a typesetter for various Jewish printers and was familiar with the Ashkenazi bookstores and meeting places for intellectual life in Amsterdam.