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Lot #    11850
Auction End Date    9/20/2005 12:28:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Ehrensaulen und Denksteine zu einem kunftigen
Title (Hebrew)    hebraischer Dichter und Dichtungen
Author    [Only Ed. - Dedication Copy] Leopold Dukes
City    Vienna
Publisher    Strauss
Publication Date    1837
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. VI, [1], 109, [1] pp., 206:130 mm., wide margins, old hand, stamps. A very good copy bound in later half cloth boards.
          
Paragraph 1    Two page dedication in Author's hand to R. Isaac Samuel Reggio.
          
Detailed
Description		    Leopold Dukes (Judah Loeb; 1810–1891), historian of Jewish literature. Dukes was born in Pressburg, Hungary. He was a student of R. Moses Sofer and of R. Hayyim Joseph Pollak; the latter introduced him to secular study. An inveterate, though poor, traveler, Dukes visited most of the important libraries in Europe, researching Jewish manuscripts and uncovering many hitherto unknown medieval works. His research covered various aspects of language and literature: aggadic literature, Bible exegesis, medieval Jewish literature, Hebrew grammar and the masoretic text, and talmudic maxims and truisms. Frequently, however, his research was unsystematic and his edited texts in need of correction. Dukes' translation of Rashi's Pentateuch commentary into German was published with R. Sofer's imprimatur in Prague during 1833–38 (Hamishah Humshei Torah im Ha'takah Ashkenazit al Perush Rashi [Raschi zum Pentateueh], 5 vols.). Dukes produced various studies on the poetry of R. Solomon ibn Gabirol and R. Moses ibn Ezra. His autobiography appears in AZDJ, 56 (1892).
          
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19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Other:    Austria
  
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First Editions:    Checked
Language:    German, Hebrew
  
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