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Euchel, Isaac Abraham, Toledot ha-rav ha-kolel he-ḥakham
Vienna: Georg Holzinger, 1814.
The first "semi-modern" biography of Moses Mendelssohn was written in Hebrew by one of his students, Isaac Abraham Euchel (1756-1804). It was first published three years after Mendelssohn's death in 1789, and then republished three times. The copy on display was published in Vienna in 1814 and illustrated with Mendelssohn's portrait made from the engraving by Pierre Joseph Langer. The owner’s inscription, which has been partly erased, proves that this copy was at some stage owned by Leopold Dukes. Dukes, of Hungarian origin, was a historian of the Jewish literature, who spent 20 years in England conducting research on the Hebrew collections of the British Museum and the Bodleian Library.
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Title page with Mendelssohn's portrait |
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