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On the history of the Samaritans entitled Einladungsschrift öffentlichen Prűfung (Invitational public writing examination) to take place on 3, 4, 5, and 6, April, of the Real=u. Volkschule der Isrealitischen Gemeinde (of the Jewish Community Public School). The contents, listed on the title page, are the history and literature of the Dr. Bruell’s essay (1-25), which is considered an impotrant contribution to the field of Samaritan studiesand, comprising the remainder of the book, school matters. The text is in aq single column in Fraktur, the old German script.
Adolf (Elhanan, 1846–1908) Bruell was the son of Jacob Bruell, a Talmudic scholar. He studied at the universities of Vienna, Prague, and Breslau, and at the Breslau Jewish Theological Seminary. From 1871 to 1903 he taught at the Philanthropin Jewish High School in Frankfort. His special field of study was the Samaritan translation of the Pentateuch. Among his published works are: Fremdsprachliche Redensarten... in den Talmuden und Midraschim (1869); Trachten der Judenim nachbiblischen Alterthum (1873); Kritische Studien ueber Samaritanische Manuscript-Fragmente (1875); Zur Geschichte und Literatur der Samaritaner (1876); and Beitraege zur Kenntnis der juedisch-deutschen Literatur (1877). Bruell also edited articles in the Populaerwissenschaftliche Monatsblaetter zur Belehrung ueber das Judentum fuer Gebildete aller Konfessionen (1881–1908), to which he contributed numerous articles. He wrote a biography of David Einhorn and was a contributor to the Jewish Encyclopedia.
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