Abraham Lewysohn

Abraham Lewysohn

Abraham Lewysohn (born December 6, 1805, died February 14, 1860) was a Hebraist and rabbi of Peiskretscham, Upper Silesia. He left a large number of manuscripts, several hundred sermons in Hebrew and German, "novellæ" on the Talmud, verses, a German work on Hebrew grammar, and a work entitled "Dorot Tannaim wa-Amoraim," a history of the Tannaim and Amoraim, the introduction to which, entitled "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 (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 (in Keller's "Bikkurim," 1865);
*"Toledot Rab," biography of Rab or Abba Arika (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;
*Zeitlin, "Bibl. Post-Mendels," pp. 208-209.
*JewishEncyclopedia

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NAME = Lewysohn, Abraham
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SHORT DESCRIPTION = Hebraist and rabbi
DATE OF BIRTH = December 6, 1805
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DATE OF DEATH = February 14, 1860
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