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Should we not cry and weep that until now our scholars have not concerned themselves to provide us with a 24 [i.e., Bible] in Yiddish, arranged according to the simple meaning of the text, word for…
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Jekutiel Blitz
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1676–1679
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Moses Frankfurt said: The holy Torah tells us that the Holy One commanded Moses to interpret the Torah very plainly (Deuteronomy 27:8), to explain it clearly in seventy languages so that all nations…
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Moses Frankfurt
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1719/20
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With God’s help, we undertook to print the Torah, prophets, and writings with the commentary by Rashi, of blessed memory, and also with a Yiddish commentary, to understand the simple verse as it…
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Menaḥem Man Amelander, Eliezer Soesman (Zusman) Rudelsum
Places:
Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1725