Israel Davidson (1870,

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⁣ – 1939,

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) was an American writer and publisher of

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heritage. He has been recognized as one of the leading American

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writers in his era. His magnum opus was the four volume ''Otsar ha-shirah veha-piyut'' = ''Thesaurus of Mediaeval Hebrew Poetry'' (NY, 1924–1933). Davidson studied in yeshivas in

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, and Slobodka. In 1898, he immigrated to New York, worked at a few occupations before earning a Ph.D. from

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References

* Goldman, Yosef. '' Hebrew Printing in America, 1735-1926, A History and Annotated Bibliography'' (YGBooks 2006). .

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