Rabbi Moses Samuel Zuckermandl, also Zuckermandel (24 April 1836,

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27 January 1917, Breslau (now

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) was a

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, and Jewish theologian.

Biography

Zuckermandl was a student of

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in Nikolsburg. He subsequently studied at the

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. He became a

in Pleschen (now

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, and was appointed lecturer of the Mora-Leipziger Foundation at Breslau, on 1 April 1898. His major literary efforts related to the

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and included the first critical edition based on variant manuscripts, particularly the Erfurt manuscript.

Literary works

* ''Die Erfurter Handschrift der Tosefta'' (1876) * ''Die Tosefta nach den Erfurter und Wiener Handschriften'' (1880–1882) * ''Spruchbuch Enthaltend Biblische Sprüche aus dem Gebetbuche'' (1889) * ''Vokabularium und Grammatik zu den Hebräischen Versen des Spruchbuches I.'' (1890)

References

* * Moshe David Herr, ''Zuckermandel, Moses Samuel''; in ''Encyclopaedia Judaica'', Second Edition, Volume 21. 1836 births 1917 deaths People from Uherský Brod 19th-century German rabbis 19th-century Czech rabbis Talmudists German Jewish theologians German male non-fiction writers Moravian Jews {{Germany-rabbi-stub

Biography

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