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A Grammar of the Hebrew Tongue
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A Grammar of the Hebrew Tongue was the first Hebrew-language manual printed in North America. Its author Judah Monis, knowing that all undergraduates at Harvard University were required to learn…

Contributor:

Judah Monis

Places:

Cambridge, British America and the British West Indies (Cambridge, United States of America)

Date:

1735

Subjects:

Language and linguistics, Jewish languages, Education

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Pedagogy & Schooling
Printed page with English and two Hebrew sentences near top and bottom of page.
Book Acquisitions of the ‘Ets Haim Yeshiva for the Years 1718/9 and 1732/33
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Established in 1616 as part of a yeshiva in Amsterdam, the Ets Ḥayim library continues to function to this day, making it the oldest operational Jewish library in the world. It moved to its current…

Contributor:

Unknown

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1718/19 and 1732/33

Subjects:

Libraries, Scholarship, Education, Jewish quarters, Language and linguistics

Categories:

Pedagogy & Schooling, Lists & Catalogues, Print & Book Culture
Manuscript page with Portuguese text.
Six-Language Dictionary
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Title page of the second edition of a six-language (Hebrew-Aramaic, Persian, Russian, Spanish, Arabic, Turkish) dictionary published in Jerusalem in 1908.

Contributor:

Solomon Pinḥasoff

Places:

Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)

Date:

1908

Subjects:

Language and linguistics, Education, Aesthetics, Jewish languages

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture
Printed page of Hebrew text with decorative border.