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Lot #    4343
Auction End Date    4/1/2003 5:30:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Palestine, Description Geographique, Historique
Title (Hebrew)    et Archeologique
Author    [First Edition] Salomon Munk
City    Paris
Publisher    Firmin Didot Fresres, Editeuers
Publication Date    1845
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    [4], foldout map, 704, [71 woodcuts, charts, maps] p., quarto, 207:128 mm., light browning, loose in the original half cloth boards.
          
Detailed
Description		    History, architechture, and geography of Palestine. Included are many illustrations, maps, charts, and drawings.
          
Paragraph 2    Munk was born in Glogau, Silesia, Munk studied at the universities of Bonn and Berlin. Realizing that as a Jew he had no academic future in Germany, he left for Paris in 1828. Here he first worked as a tutor in the Rothschild family, but was soon engaged by the BibliothIque Nationale and put in charge of Semitic manuscripts. His assiduous work with them led to his becoming totally blind by 1850, but it did not prevent 17 more years of fruitful scholarly activity. Before then (1840) he joined the Montefiore-Cremieux delegation to Egypt - as the latter's secretary and interpreter - which was to intervene in the Damascus affair. When the Egyptian khedive Muhammad Ali at last agreed to issue an order to Damascus to set the falsely accused free, Munk - though some say it was L. Loewe, Montefiore's secretary - detected in the Arabic draft the word "mercy" to be granted, which at the insistence of Cremieux was changed into "freedom and peace." Cremieux and Munk used the opportunity of their visit to persuade Egyptian Jewry to modernize their school system and to bring about a rapprochement between Rabbanites and Karaites. Munk also acquired valuable manuscripts, particularly Karaitica, for the BibliothIque Nationale. Back in Paris Munk joined the Consistoire Central and was elected a member of the AcadMmie des Inscriptions et des Belles Lettres. In 1864 he succeeded E. Renan as professor of Hebrew and Syriac literature at the College de France.
          
Reference
Description		    Roehricht, p. 399; Enc. Jud.
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
France:    Checked
  
Subject
History:    Checked
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    French
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica