Akiba Lehren

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Akiba Mozes Lehren (July 30, 1795, The Hague – November 19, 1876, Amsterdam) was a Dutch banker and communal worker, younger brother of Ẓebi Hirsch Lehren and Jacob Meïr Lehren.

He was "president of the Pekidim and Amarcalim of the Jewish congregations in the Holy Land, dwelling in Amsterdam," and in 1844 became involved in the literary dispute of his brother Hirsch concerning the administration of the Ḥaluḳḳah (see Fürst in Der Orient, 1844, p. 17). He died in Amsterdam Nov. 19, 1876.

Both Akiba and his brother Meïr possessed very rich and valuable collections of Hebrew books, a sale catalogue of which was arranged and published by J. L. Joachimsthal, Amsterdam, 1899 (comp. Zeit. für Hebr. Bibl. 1899, p. 152). Akiba published a very poor edition of Isaac ben Moses' Or Zarua', parts i. and ii., according to an Amsterdam manuscript, Jitomir, 1862 (Steinschneider, Zeit. für Hebr. Bibl. viii. 1 et seq.).

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  • Allg. Zeit. des Jud. 1876, p. 809;
  • Ha-Maggid, 1876, p. 412;
  • Univ. Isr. 1876, p. 217.

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