Jacob Bodek (Hebrew: יעקב בודק; 24 June 1819 – 18 July 1855) was a Galician Maskilic writer.
Jacob Bodek was born in Lemberg (now Lviv, Ukraine), where he spent most of his life.
Bodek was a leading member of Ha-Ro'im ('The Spectators'), a group of conservative Maskilim opposed to the "scientific" strand of the Haskalah.
[1] Together with his brother-in-law, A. M. Mohr [he], he published a journal entitled Ha-ro'eh ve-mevaker sifre meḥavre zemanenu ('Spectator and Critic of Contemporary Works'; Lemberg, 1837), which contained polemical articles criticizing the work of Solomon Judah Rapoport, Samuel David Luzzatto, and Isaac Samuel Reggio.
[2] Due to the efforts of Joshua Heschel Schorr [he; de] and others, the work was banned in the Austrian Empire.