Bernays documents. 1821-1934.

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Bernays documents. 1821-1934.

Papers, documents, letters, and copies of letters concerning the Bernays family. Included are letters from Haham Isaac Bernays of Hamburg to his son, Jacob, and from Jacob to his father. There is also a letter dated 1880 from Jacob Bernays, in Bonn, to the scholar Salomon Buber (Martin Buber's grandfather) thanking him for a copy of his edition of Pesikta Zutrata. There are also a few pages of notes by Louis Lewin, and two letters and one postcard concerning the gathering of this material, the latest letter dated 1934.

32 leaves ; 33 cm. + 1 postcard.

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Yeshiva University

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Bernays, Isaac, 1792-1849

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Isaac Bernays was rabbi in Hamburg from 1821. He struggled against the Reform movement and influenced his disciple, Samson Raphael Hirsch. His son, Jacob, taught Greek at Bonn University (1848-53), but, as a Jew, could not be promoted. He then left and helped found the Breslau Rabbinical Seminary in 1853. He was later reinstated in Bonn in 1866 as assistant professor and chief librarian. From the description of Bernays documents. 1821-1934. (Yeshiva University). WorldCat record id: 1...

Buber, Salomon, 1827-1906

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Bernays, Isaac, 18..-....

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Bernays, Jacob, 1824-1881

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Jacob Bernays (1824-1881) was a German professor of Greek and librarian at the University of Bonn. From the description of Jacob Bernays correspondence, 1853-1878. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122575957 From the guide to the Jacob Bernays correspondence, 1853-1878, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) Born in Stuttgart in 1902, Bach received a doctorate in German literature from the University of Berlin in 1928. He was an author and ed...

Lewin, Louis, 1868-1941

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Bernays family.

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