Lajb Fuks

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Lajb Fuks (born 1908 in Poland; died 1990 ) was a Polish-Dutch Judaist, Jewish scholar and librarian.

Life

Fuks immigrated to Holland in 1934, was initially employed as an assistant librarian at the Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana at the University of Amsterdam from 1946 and was a librarian there from 1949 until his retirement in 1973. From 1964 he was a lecturer in Ivrit and Yiddish as well as ancient Yiddish literary and language history at the University of Amsterdam.

Works (excerpts)

  • The oldest known literary documents of yiddish literature , Leiden: EJ Brill, 1957.
  • The Hebrew and Aramaic sources of the old Yiddish epic Melok̄îm-Bûk̄ , Assen, [1964]
  • Hebrew and Judaic Manuscripts in Amsterdam Public Collection
  • Lajb Fuks; RG Fuks-Mansfeld: Hebrew and Judaic manuscripts in Amsterdam public collections. , Leiden, Brill, 1973-

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry in the Jewish Virtual Library
personal data
SURNAME Fuks, Lajb
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fuks, loaf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish-Dutch Judaist, Jewish scholar and librarian
DATE OF BIRTH 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Poland
DATE OF DEATH 1990