Ze'ev Wolf Buchner

Ze'ev Wolf ben David ha-Kohen Buchner (Hebrew: זאב וואלף בן דוד הכהן בוכנר; 1750–1820), also known as the Razbad (Hebrew: רזב״ד), was a Galician Hebrew-language grammarian and poet, considered a forerunner of the Haskalah movement.

[1] Though he lived most of his life in Brody,[1] he traveled with Hebrew books through Germany, Galicia, Poland, and Lithuania, at times earning his livelihood by writing letters for illiterate people.

He suffered very much in his travels through foreign countries, and in Berlin he sustained an injury which cost him the sight of his right eye.

His works include Zeved ha-Melitzah (1774), an imitation of Yehuda Alharizi's Takhemoni; Zeved Tov (1794), a collection of poems; Keter Malkhut (Lemberg, 1794), a hymn in the style of Ibn Gabirol's work of the same name; Shire Tehillah (Berlin, 1797), hymns and parodies; and Tzaḥut ha-Melitzah (Prague, 1805), a collection of his private letters.

His parodies of the marriage and betrothal contracts were later abridged and published separately as Seder Tenaim Rishonim me-Ḥag ha-Pesaḥ (Lemberg, 1878), and wrongly ascribed to Israel Najara.