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Lot #    7901
Auction End Date    8/17/2004 4:38:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Hebraeische Schulgrammatik...
Author    [First Ed.] Israel Michel Rabbinowicz
City    Breslau
Publisher    Sulsbach's
Publication Date    1853
          
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Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
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Physical
Description		    First edition. XX, 179, [1] pp., usual age staining, paper repairs to pp. xvii-12 affecting words, pencil on several ff. , bound in contemporary boards, rubbed.
          
Detailed
Description		    Israel Michel Rabbinowicz (1818–1893), writer and scholar was born in Gorodets, Lithuania, Rabbinowicz, whose father was rabbi in Gorodets and from 1828 in Antopol, received a traditional education. His brother, Joshua Jacob, also rabbi in Gorodets, was the author of several talmudic works. At the yeshivah in Brest-Litovsk Rabbinowicz began his study of the philosophers, especially Maimonides. Deciding to widen his field of study, he learned German in Brody and Greek and Latin (with D. Chwolson) in Breslau, where he subsequently entered the university as a student of philology. In 1851 he published this Hebrew grammar, followed by Hebraeische Grammatik nach neuen sehr vereinfachten Regeln und Grundsaetzen in 1853 (French translation by J. J. Clement-Mullet, 1862– ), selling the books himself in order to earn a living. Later he took up medicine and in 1854 went to Paris, where he continued his studies in hospitals until 1865. In that year he obtained his M.D. with his Etudes historiques de l'empoisonnement, which consisted in the main of a translation of Maimonides' "Treatise on Poisons." However, he rarely practiced medicine, preferring to devote himself, in solitude and poverty, to scholarship. Too poor to heat his room, he wrote his books in a cafe. As well as extending his grammatical methods to other languages (Nouveaux principes compares de la prononciation Anglaise..., 1874; Vergleichende Grammatik der polnischen Sprache, 1877; Grammaire de la langue francaise d'aprIs de nouveaux principes... 1886, 1889), he defended Jewish tradition against its detractors, publishing Le role de Jesus et des apotres (1866), a critique of Renan; La religion nationale des anciens Hebreux (1873), a criticism of Jules Soury; and Histoire Sainte: Ancien Testament (1877). However his main work was his condensed translation, with commentary, of talmudic legislation, La legislation criminelle du Thalmud (1876) and La legislation civile du Thalmud (1–5, 1877–80). A Zionist from the early days of the movement, he took part in the Kattowitz Conference of 1884 and presided over the Benei Zion of Paris. He went to Russia in 1889 with the intention of trying to have his books republished, and subsequently lived in London, where he was assisted until his death by Chief Rabbi N. M. Adler and other benefactors.
          
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Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Germany:    Checked
  
Subject
Other:    Grammar
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    Hebrew, German
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica