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The question of family names in general and of Jewish family names in particular is interesting in many ways. Unfortunately, Jewish scholarship has thus far devoted very little attention to this…
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Samuel Weissenberg
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Yelisavetgrad, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (Kropyvnytskyy, Ukraine)
Date:
1929
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The written Hebrew agadah [lore and legends transmitted in rabbinic texts] is the primary literary form that was dominant for several centuries in the world of unbounded folk and individual creation…
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Chaim Nahman Bialik, Yehoshu‘a Ḥana Ravnitski
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Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
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1908
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This work is an anthology of various texts that provide precious foundations, crucial for the knowledge of the wisdom of kabbalah, hidden secrets that were revealed through the mightiest of heroes…
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Jacob ben Ḥayim
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Baghdad, Ottoman Empire (Baghdad, Iraq)
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1911
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When one comes to collect legends of the Hebrews and Jews from the many diverse strata of our literature, one must be armed with all the secrets of the schools and fruits of visionary…
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Mikhah Yosef Berdyczewski
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Leipzig, Germany
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1912