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Bidding Information
Lot #    14775
Auction End Date    6/13/2006 12:43:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Ammudei haLashon
Title (Hebrew)    עמודי הלשון
Author    [Haskalah] Joel Loewe (Brill)
City    Prague
Publisher    Gebruder Stiasny
Publication Date    1803
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    174 [i.e. 176], 8 pp., [1] foldout, 187:107 mm., wide margins. A very good copy bound in contemporary boards, rubbed and split. Includes the second foldout only.
          
Detailed
Description		    An attempt at a scientific grammar of biblical Hebrew of which only the first part was published by Joel Loewe (Brill) (1762–1802), Hebrew writer, grammarian, and biblical exegete in the Moses Mendelssohn circle in Berlin. Born in Berlin, Loewe studied under Isaac Satanow and soon joined Mendelssohn's enlightenment movement. Together with Aharon Wolfsohn, he edited Ha-Me'assef (1784–97), and was a frequent contributor to it. He signed his Hebrew works l”yrb (Ben R. Yehudah Leib Loewe). Mendelssohn helped him obtain a position as tutor in David Friedlaender's household. In 1791, he was appointed principal of the Wilhelms-Schule in Breslau, serving in this capacity until his death.

Loewe's major contribution is his introduction and commentary to Mendelssohn's German translation of Psalms (1785–88), which includes a study on the structure and style of Hebrew poetry and on the history of ancient Jewish music. He took an active part in Mendelssohn's Bible translation project, writing, in addition to his work on Psalms, commentaries to Ecclesiastes, Jonah, and with Wolfsohn, the Song of Songs. Loewe was the first Haskalah writer to publish original epigrams in the style of the Book of Proverbs, and was the first to translate the Passover Haggadah to German.

          
Paragraph 2    ... לתועלת התלמידים החפצים ללמוד שפת עבר... דיא עלעמענטע דער עברישן שפראכע... איין האנדבוך פיר לעהרער פאן יואל ברי"ל... ... צווייטע פרבעסרטע אויפלאגע ...
          
Reference
Description		    CD-EPI 0114417; Zeitlin, Bibliotheca, 215; EJ; Waxman, Literature, 3 (1960), 127.
        
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Listing Classification
Period
  
18th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Germany:    Checked
  
Subject
Other:    Grammar
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew, Judeo-German
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica