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Mattityahu (Mathias) Strashun (1817-1885): Scholar, Leader and Book Collector

Mattityahu (Mathias) Strashun (1817-1885):
Scholar, Leader and Book Collector

Introduction

Mattityahu Strashun’s Biography

A Brief History of the Strashun Library

The Story of Hebrew Printing

Samuel and Mattityahu Strashun: Between Tradition and Innovation
By Dr. Mordechai Zalkin

Exhibit

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Credits

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
Hebrew Dictionaries & Grammar Books
  

Kimhi, David, 1160-1235.
Sefer Mikhlol [Book of Entirety]
Edited by Elijah ben Asher ha-Levi.
Venice: Daniel Bomberg, 1545.

Rabbi David Kimhi (RaDaK) was a great Hebrew grammarian and Bible commentator from Narbonne, Provence. Sefer Mikhlol is a pioneering work of Hebrew grammar. Elijah ben Asher ha-Levi (1469-1549), known in Yiddish as Elyohu Bokhur, and as Elias Levita by Latin authors, was a gifted Hebrew grammarian, Yiddish author, and editor of Jewish books for the Bomberg press. He was the Hebrew teacher of Christian Hebraists of the Renaissance, such as Johannes Reuchlin (1455-1522) and Sebastian Muenster (1489-1552).

  

Aquin, Philippe d', 1575-1650.
Ma'arikh ha-ma'arakhot (Dictionarium absolutissimum)
Paris: Antonius Vitray, 1629.

Philippe d'Aquin, born in southern France as Mordechai Cresque de Carpantras, was a prolific and erudite Hebrew linguist, who converted to the Catholic faith in order to be able to teach in the Sorbonne. One of his prominent Christian students, the French Hebraist Plantavitius, bishop of Lodeve, wrote a detailed account of his teaching methods. This is a Hebrew and Aramaic dictionary of the Bible and the Talmud.

  

Oliveyra, Solomon ben David de (died 1708).
Ets hayim (Hes-haym) (Arvore de vidas: thezouro da lingua sancta)
Amsterdam, David Di Castro Tatrtes, 1682.

Oliveyra was rabbi, philologist and poet. Born in Lisbon, he lived most of his life in Amsterdam, where he was a teacher and a member of the rabbinical council. Ets Hayim is a Hebrew-Portuguese dictionary needed by the many Portuguese exiles in Amsterdam.

  
 

  
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