Abraham Lewysohn (6December 180514February 1860) was a

Hebraist A Hebraist is a specialist in Jewish, Hebrew and Hebraic studies. Specifically, British and German scholars of the 18th and 19th centuries who were involved in the study of Hebrew language and literature were commonly known by this designation, a ...

and

rabbi A rabbi (; ) is a spiritual leader or religious teacher in Judaism. One becomes a rabbi by being ordained by another rabbi—known as ''semikha''—following a course of study of Jewish history and texts such as the Talmud. The basic form of t ...

Peiskretscham Pyskowice () is a city in Silesia in southern Poland, near Katowice. Outer city of the Metropolis GZM – metropolis with a population of 2 million. Located in the Silesian Highlands. It is situated in the Silesian Voivodeship since its formatio ...

, Upper Silesia. He left a large number of manuscripts, several hundred sermons in Hebrew and Danish, ''

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'' on the

Talmud The Talmud (; ) is the central text of Rabbinic Judaism and the primary source of Jewish religious law (''halakha'') and Jewish theology. Until the advent of Haskalah#Effects, modernity, in nearly all Jewish communities, the Talmud was the cen ...

, verses, a German work on

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, and a work titled ''Dorot Tannaim wa-Amoraim,'' a history of the

Tannaim ''Tannaim'' ( Amoraic Hebrew: תנאים "repeaters", "teachers", singular ''tanna'' , borrowed from Aramaic) were the rabbinic sages whose views are recorded in the Mishnah, from approximately 10–220 CE. The period of the Tannaim, also refe ...

and

Amoraim ''Amoraim'' ( , singular ''Amora'' ; "those who say" or "those who speak over the people", or "spokesmen") refers to Jewish scholars of the period from about 200 to 500 CE, who "said" or "told over" the teachings of the Oral Torah. They were p ...

, the introduction to which, titled "Parnasat chakme ha-Talmud," was published in Kobak's ''Jeschurun'' (i, part 3, p. 81).

Publications

*''Me'ore Minhagim'' (Berlin, 1846), a critical essay on religious customs according to the Talmud, Posekim, and

Midrashim ''Midrash'' (;"midrash"
. ''Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary''. ; or ''midrashot' ...

(this work was afterward plagiarized by Finkelstein, Vienna, 1851); *''Shete Derashot'' (Gleiwitz, 1856), sermons; *''Toledot R. Yehoshua' ben Ḥananyah,'' biography of R.

Joshua b. Hananiah Joshua ( ), also known as Yehoshua ( ''Yəhōšuaʿ'', Tiberian: ''Yŏhōšuaʿ,'' lit. 'Yahweh is salvation'), Jehoshua, or Josue, functioned as Moses' assistant in the books of Exodus and Numbers, and later succeeded Moses as leader of th ...

(in Keller's ''Bikkurim,'' 1865); *''Toledot Rab,'' biography of Rab or

Abba Arika Rav Abba bar Aybo (; 175–247 CE), commonly known as Abba Arikha () or simply as Rav (), was a Jewish amora of the 3rd century. He was born and lived in Kafri, Asoristan, in the Sasanian Empire. In Sura, Arikha established the systematic st ...

(Kobak's ''Jeschurun,'' vi and vii). Lewysohn was also a regular contributor to ''Ha-Maggid'' and to Klein's ''Jahrbuch.''

References

* ** Ludwig Lewysohn, in ''Ha-Maggid,'' vii.364; **

William Zeitlin William Zeitlin (; – 1921) was a Russian scholar and bibliographer. Biography William Zeitlin was born in Gomel, Mogilev Governorate, into a prominent Jewish family from Shklov. His major work was ''Kiryat Sefer'', or ''Bibliotheca Hebraica P ...

, ''Bibl. Post-Mendels,'' pp. 208–209. 1805 births 1860 deaths 19th-century German rabbis German Hebraists Silesian Jews Clergy from the Province of Silesia People from Pyskowice German male non-fiction writers {{Europe-rabbi-stub