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81LILIENBLUM, MOSES LEIB — (1843–1910), Hebrew writer, critic, and political journalist. Born in Kedainiai, near Kovno, Lilienblum was one of the leaders of the Haskalah in its last period and a leader of Hibbat Zion. His Life and Public Activity His first teachers were… …
82LINGUISTIC LITERATURE, HEBREW — This article is arranged according to the following outline: introduction foreword the beginning of linguistic literature linguistic literature and its background the development of linguistic literature Foreword: A Well Defined Unit the four… …
83LONZANO, MENAHEM BEN JUDAH DE — (1550–before 1624), linguist, poet, and kabbalist. Little is known about his life, but it is assumed that he was born in Constantinople. At the age of 25 he immigrated to jerusalem and later moved to safed . Forty years later, he went to turkey… …
84LUZ (Lozinsky), KADISH — (1895–1972), Israeli politician and third speaker of the knesset , member of the Second to Sixth Knessets. Born in Bobruisk, Belorussia, Luz received traditional schooling. He studied economics and social sciences at the University of St.… …
85MAIMONIDEAN CONTROVERSY — MAIMONIDEAN CONTROVERSY, a vast complex of disputed cultural, religious, and social problems, focusing around several central themes. Some of the elements of this controversy considerably antedate maimonides (1135–1204); and of the questions… …
86MINOR TRACTATES — In addition to the 63 regular tractates of the Mishnah and Talmud, there are appended at the end of the fourth order, nezikin , 14 smaller or minor tractates which were first published together in their present format in the Romm Vilna edition… …
87MOSSINSOHN, YIGAL — (1917–1994), Israeli author and playwright. Born in Ein Gannim, Mossinsohn was a member of kibbutz Na an from 1938 to 1950 and served in the Palmaḥ and the Israeli Defense Forces from 1943 to 1949. After six years in the United States (1959–65),… …
88PARODY, HEBREW — Parody in Early Hebrew Literature Parody is the use of a recognizable literary form as a vehicle to ridicule or mock something or someone. The writer takes a well known, serious work as his model and invests it with new and amusing contents, at… …
89PROVERBS, TALMUDIC — The Talmud abounds in proverbs of all kinds. Important sources are the tractates Avot, Avot de Rabbi Nathan, Derekh Ereẓ Rabbah, and Derekh Ereẓ Zuta, and numbers of proverbs occur together in several smaller collections (BK 92a–b; Bek. 17a; et… …
90RABBINER-SEMINAR FUER DAS ORTHODOXE JUDENTUM — RABBINER SEMINAR FUER DAS ORTHODOXE JUDENTUM, the Rabbinical Seminary for Orthodox Judaism, founded in 1873 in Berlin by Azriel (Israel) hildesheimer to promote Torah im Derekh Ereẓ (the combination of loyalty to Judaism with awareness of modern… …
