Lippmann Hirsch Loewenstein

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Lippmann Hirsch Loewenstein (around 1809 - around 1850 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a Hebrew translator and Bible commentator .

He is said to come from Steinbach in Württemberg or the Jewish community of Menzingen . From 1827 to 1848 he lived with a three and a half year break as a permissionist (foreigner subject to authorization) in Frankfurt. From 1840 to 1842 he published on the Damascus affair . In April 1841 he wrote a letter to Leopold Zunz . In 1842 he had sent a copy of his latest work "Ueberzeugungen eines Israeliten, gegen dem Proselytentum" to the Württemberg Ministry of the Interior. He announced this in the Frankfurter Ober-Post-Amts-Zeitung. After 1842 he was an auditor in the publishing house of Isaac Lehrberger in Rödelheim (whose office was later held by Seligmann Baer ). When he was arrested in October 1848 as part of the revolutionary activities and was to be expelled from the city of Frankfurt, he also expressed his displeasure. He is said to have lived until 1848 or 1850.

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  1. ^ Thurn & Taxis: Frankfurter Ober-Post-Amts-Zeitung. Thurn & Taxis, 1842, p. 1099 ( limited preview in the Google book search).