Israel Lewy
Israel Lewy (born January 7, 1841 in Inowrazlaw , † September 8, 1917 in Breslau ) was a German - Jewish scholar. He attended the Jewish Theological Seminary in Wroclaw and the University in Wroclaw. In 1874 he was appointed lecturer at the Institute for the Science of Judaism in Berlin , in 1883 he returned to the Breslau seminar after the death of David Joël . Lewy had an extensive knowledge of the Talmudic and Mishnaic literature.
In his first publication Ueber some fragments from the Mishnah of Abba Saul (Berlin, 1876) he showed that the Mishnah collections of the early teachers and those of Abba Saul in the period before the final editing of the Mishnah corresponded with regard to the most important points of the Halacha .
A Word on the Mechilta of R. Simon (Breslau, 1889) was also an authoritative work on halachic exegesis. Among his other publications are the interpretation of the first, second and third sections of the Palestinian Talmud - tractate Nesikin (ib. 1895-1902) and A Lecture on the Ritual of the Passover Evening (1904).
literature
- Hans-Werner Rautenberg (Hrsg.): Hikes and cultural exchange in eastern Central Europe: Research on the late Middle Ages and the recent modern times. Volume 1 of Peoples, States and Cultures in East Central Europe. Verlag Oldenbourg, Munich 2006, p. 143
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Individual evidence
- ↑ John F. Oppenheimer (Red.) And a .: Lexicon of Judaism. 2nd Edition. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh u. a. 1971, ISBN 3-570-05964-2 , col. 425.
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| SURNAME | Lewy, Israel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Jewish scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 7, 1841 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Inowrazlaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 8, 1917 |
| Place of death | Wroclaw |