Hebraist

During World War I, Weingrad points out, "the Yiddish daily press in the United States reached a peak circulation of more than six hundred thousand," whereas Hadoar, the leading Hebrew periodical in America, "had a circulation of about nine thousand to twelve thousand." By the end of World War II, the number of important Hebrew writers in America could be counted on the fingers of one hand; when the last of them, the poet Gabriel Preil, died in 1993, "the story of the immigrant Hebraists and the literature they created in America came to an end." In fact, at the end of Weingrad's book, he reveals that Ozick knew that story very well: Her own uncle, Abraham Regelson, was a Hebrew poet, and the bickering Yiddishists of "Envy" are at least partly based on "the immigrant Hebraist writers."

Saleh omits all but the most perfunctory discussion of the content of the treatise, referring instead to his article "A Fifteenth-Century Muslim Hebraist: Al-Biqa'i and His Defense of Using the Bible to Interpret the Qur'an," Speculum 83 (2008): 629-54.

On a sleepy Shabbat afternoon, a Yiddishist might discuss a Shalom Aleichem story, a Hebraist might offer a scholarly interpretation of a Bialik poem, and, during the terrible summer of 1948, Moshe Kasowitz, who had two sons fighting in the Haganah, prevailed upon those assembled on the communal lawn to donate money to the fledgling army.

(20.) The facsimile chart identifies many others present such as Governor of Jerusalem Sir Ronald Storrs, the poets Zalman Shneour and Saul Tchernichowski, the Oxford University Hebraist Herbert Danby (canon of St.

Poulter he has created a tool which should become part of every Hebraist's working library.

He deserves recognition, they say, as a devoted Christian Hebraist who not only studied Talmud, but even consulted the glosses of the Rashbam.

Basola was also in close contact with Christian cabalists such as the Hebraist Guillaume Postel, who spoke of Basola as one "who by his outstanding erudition was renowned as pope and chief of all the Jews of this century" (!)

When Philip Melanchthon, the brilliant classical scholar and great-nephew of the famous Hebraist Johannes Reuchlin (1455-1522), relocated from Tubingen to Wittenberg in August 1518, he promptly championed the wisdom of renewed study of the classical languages in his inaugural lecture, "De corrigendis adolescentiae studiis" (dedicated to Otto Beckmann).

Among the overstatements are: |Calvin found no community of scholars at Basel.' This will not do when we remember those he knew there, Grynaeus, Myconius, and others with whom he corresponded later, and there is reason to assume that the Hebraist, Munster, helped him with Hebrew there.

In this original, highly learned, and beautifully produced volume Anthony Grafton and Joanna Weinberg, known for their important contributions to Renaissance scholarship and intellectual history, have teamed up to provide an innovative and provocative study of an intriguing, if often neglected, Renaissance Hebraist, Isaac Casaubon (1559-1614).

Reuchlin, a leading Christian Hebraist, paid dearly for his attempts to defend Jews and found himself accused of having been bamboozled by Jewish bribery.

The first three chapters, dealing with the period before the creation of the Jewish state, relate the stories of three personal and political relationships: the poet Naphtali Herz Imber and the British diplomat and journalist Laurence Oliphant; the Zionist leader Theodor Herzl and the Anglican cleric William Hechler; and the Hebrew University professor Joseph Klausner and the Hebraist Herbert Danby.