Euchel Isaac Ben Abraham

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Euchel Isaac Ben Abraham

a Jewish scholar, born in 1756, was a distinguished member of the Society for the Promotion of Biblical Literature and Exegesis, which was formed in the days of Mendelssohn (q.v.). He is the author of a very learned treatise on the ancient mode of burial among the Jews, Ist nach judischen Gesetzen das Uebernachten der Todten wirklich verboten? (Breslau, 1797.) He published also a translation of the Jewish Prayers, מוֹרֶה נֵבוֹכַים םָ פֵּרוּשַׁים , or Mose Maimuni'S Mose Nebuchim, with the Commentary of Mose Narboni, called הִנִּרְבּוֹנַי , and others (Sulzbach, 1828, 3 volumes, 4to); a history of the life of Moses Mendelssohn (Berlin, 1798, 8vo; Vienna, 1812); eand as a part of the great Bible work started by Mendelssohn, Die Spruche Salomo's im Original ins Deutsche ubersetzt und hebraiisch commentirt (8vo, Berlin, 1789, 1790, and often). Furst, Bibliotheca Judaica, pages 259, 260; Kitto, Cyclop. of Biblical Literature, s.v.

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