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Bidding Information
Lot #    12276
Auction End Date    11/1/2005 12:55:49 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    The Scholar's Instructor, or Hebrew Grammar
Author    Israel Lyons
City    Glasgow
Publisher    Andrew & John M. Duncan
Publication Date    1823
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    [1], 63 pp., 222:137 mm., wide margins, light age staining. A very good copy bound in contemporary boards, rubbed.
          
Detailed
Description		    Israel Lyons (c. 1700–1770), English Hebraist. Lyons, who was born in Poland, settled in Cambridge (c. 1732), worked as a silversmith, and became an authorized teacher of Hebrew at the university. He contributed Hebrew verses to the volume of elegies (1738) on the funeral of Queen Caroline and published The Scholar's Instructor, or Hebrew Grammar (1735; many subsequent editions) and Observations Relating to Various Parts of Scripture History (1768).

Glasgow, city in S.W. Scotland. The first Jew to settle in the city was Isaac Cohen in 1812; however there was no sizable community or synagogue until 1833, when services were held in the house of the shohet, Moses Lisenheim. By 1831, 47 Jews lived in the city, most of them originating from Eastern Europe, though six had already been born in Glasgow.

          
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Other:    Scotland
  
Subject
Other:    Grammar
  
Characteristic
Language:    English, Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica