Leo Prijs

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Leo Prijs (born June 27, 1920 in Breslau ; died 1988 ) was a German Judaist .

Leo Prijs fled to Switzerland with his parents in 1933. From 1953 he lived in the USA, from 1955 in Israel, where he taught at the University of Bar-Ilan , from 1960 in the Federal Republic of Germany. From 1964 he was a private lecturer for Jewish studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , from 1970 an adjunct professor and from 1978 to 1985 full professor . From 1987 he lived in London .

Fonts

As an author

  • Jewish tradition in the Septuagint . Brill, Leiden 1948.
  • The grammatical terminology of Abraham Ibn Esra . Sepher-Verlag, Basel 1950.
  • The Jewish religion. An introduction . Pfeiffer, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-7904-0237-0 .
  • The world of Judaism. Religion, history, way of life . CH Beck, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-406-08461-3 .
  • Words about the Sabbath. About the Jewish religion . CH Beck, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-406-34011-3 .

As editor

  • Major works of Hebrew literature. Individual representations and interpretations from the Bible and Talmud to Zionist modernity . Kindler, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-463-00717-7 .
  • Laughter and Survival. Real Jewish jokes . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1984, ISBN 3-451-08126-1 .

literature

  • Ittai A. Tamari: Father and Son, or about the beginnings of Jewish studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. In: Munich Contributions to Jewish History and Culture. 2009, Volume 2 (= Das portative Vaterland), pp. 107–118

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/17445/1/WU4Z70_27_1990_P.pdf
  2. ^ Institute for the Near and Middle East
personal data
SURNAME Prijs, Leo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Judaist
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH 1988