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Lot #
12262
Auction End Date
11/1/2005 12:43:10 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
Title Information
Title (English)
Zur rabbinischen Spruchkunde
Author
[Only Ed.] Leopold Dukes
City
Vienna
Publisher
Adalbert della Torre
Publication Date
1851
Collection Information
Independent Item
This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
Description Information
Physical
Description
Only edition. [2], IV, 97, [1] pp., 213:138 mm., wide margins, usual light age staining, stamps. A very good copy bound in contemporary boards, rubbed.
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 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 Solomon ibn Gabirol and Moses ibn Ezra. His autobiography appears in AZDJ, 56 (1892). Reference Description EJ
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:
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Location
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Austria
Subject
Characteristic
First Editions:
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Language:
German, Hebrew
Manuscript Type
Kind of Judaica
