Rabbinische Blumenlese; Enthaltend: Eine Sammlung, Übersetzung und Erläuterung der Hebäischen und Chaldäischen Sprüche des Sirach, Talmudischer Sprichwörter, Sentenzen und Maximen, Nebst einem Anhange, Leichenreden und einem Glossar

Leipzig, Germany/Deutschland: Hahn'schen Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1844. Hardcover. Used-Acceptable/No Jacket. 8vo or 8° (Medium Octavo): between 6" - 9" tall . 333 pp. A perfectly acceptable reading copy. No dj. Text in Hebrew and German. Damage to spine. Slightly bumped cover board corners. Previous owner's name inscribed on first front-end page. Synopsis: The title translate as: "For the knowledge of modern Hebrew poetry. A contribution to literary history, together with Hebrew inserts" And "Rabbinic anthology containing: A collection, translation and explanation of the Hebrew and Chaldean Proverbs of Sirach, Talmudic proverbs, aphorisms and maxims, together with an appendix and a funeral orations. " Leopold Dukes was a "Hungarian historian of Jewish literature; born at Presburg, Hungary, 1810; died at Vienna Aug. 3, 1891. He studied Talmudical literature in the yeshibah of Moses Sofer, rabbi of Presburg; but his passion for Biblical studies, which found no sympathy in his native town, led him to the yeshibah of Wörzburg, where he also devoted himself to the acquisition of a secular education. After a prolonged stay at Wörzburg he returned home; but displeased with the manners of his fellow citizens, and impelled by a thirst for knowledge, he visited the principal European cities in which there were libraries containing Hebrew manuscripts. He lived successively at Munich, Tübingen, Hanover, Hamburg, Paris, Leipsic, Oxford, and then spent about twenty years in London. Dukes was an original character, a fact due probably to his solitary life and privations. His scholarship was extensive and exact, and his works cover the fields of exegesis, Haggadah, grammar, Masorah, the history of literature, ethics, and poetry. In all of these he made many ingenious and important discoveries; and his books became indispensable supplements to those of Zunz, Rapoport, and Krochmal.