Abraham Lewysohn

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Abraham Lewysohn (born December 6, 1805, died February 14, 1860) was a Hebraist and rabbi of Peiskretscham, Upper Silesia. He left a large number of manuscripts, several hundred sermons in Hebrew and German, novellæ on the Talmud, verses, a German work on Hebrew grammar, and a work entitled Dorot Tannaim wa-Amoraim, a history of the Tannaim and Amoraim, the introduction to which, entitled "Parnasat chakme ha-Talmud," was published in Kobak's Jeschurun (i, part 3, p. 81).

[edit] Publications

  • Me'ore Minhagim (Berlin, 1846), a critical essay on religious customs according to the Talmud, Posekim, and Midrashim (this work was afterward plagiarized by Finkelstein, Vienna, 1851);
  • Shete Derashot (Gleiwitz, 1856), sermons;
  • Toledot R. Yehoshua' ben Ḥananyah, biography of R. Joshua b. Hananiah (in Keller's Bikkurim, 1865);
  • Toledot Rab, biography of Rab or Abba Arika (Kobak's Jeschurun, vi and vii). Lewysohn was also a regular contributor to Ha-Maggid and to Klein's Jahrbuch.

[edit] References

  • Ludwig Lewysohn, in Ha-Maggid, vii.364;
  • Zeitlin, Bibl. Post-Mendels, pp. 208-209.
  • This article incorporates text from the 1901–1906 Jewish Encyclopedia, a publication now in the public domain.
Persondata
NAME Lewysohn, Abraham
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION Hebraist and rabbi
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1805
PLACE OF BIRTH
DATE OF DEATH February 14, 1860
PLACE OF DEATH