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This revised edition became very popular, and was widely reprinted in both Jewish circles (often accompanied by a translation on facing pages) and in Christian circles (with the addition of the New Testament).
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This second edition, according to Breuer, shows the Heidenheim-Baer text only for Psalms 1–55; that first ream of the book was apparently prepared by an editor from the Heidenheim school.
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In 1852, during a period in which he faced financial difficulties, he agreed to edit an edition of the
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The Letteris Bible, title page, from a scan of the 1896 reprint by the original publisher.
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and, though for a short time, the post of librarian in the Oriental department of the
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Leshonenu: A Journal for the Study of the Hebrew Language and Cognate Subjects
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corrector in a printing establishment, and later in a similar capacity to
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Introduction to the Massoretico-Critical Edition of the Hebrew Bible
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and other legends, secured for him a gold medal from Emperor
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The entire text of the first Letteris edition can be viewed
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community. At the age of twelve he sent a Hebrew poem to
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Orlinsky, Harry M. Prolegomenon to the 1966 reprint of
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Being for Myself Alone: Origins of Jewish Autobiography
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into a family of printers that came to Galicia from
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(1904). 674: 672: 670: 647:Singer, Isidore; Slouschz, N. (1904). 615: 593: 567: 518: 306:.) One of his best known poems is his 237:(1844). In 1848 he settled finally in 793: 791: 610:Bilder aus dem Biblischen Morgenlande 7: 759: 757: 755: 590:] (autobiography). Vienna. 1869. 420:German translations from the Hebrew. 127:poet, editor, and translator of the 120: 975:Jews from Galicia (Eastern Europe) 546:Master of the Lyre and the Cithern 380:]. Zolkiev: G. Letteris. 1822. 233:, where he received the degree of 213:, where for four years he studied 14: 950:Scholars from the Austrian Empire 491:]. Karlsruhe: Macklot. 1847. 355:British and Foreign Bible Society 249:Letteris' chief poetical work in 763: 720:[Letteris, Meir (Max)]. 636: 462:. Prague: Wolf Pascheles. 1843. 402:A selection of poems and essays. 472:Hebrew translation of Racine's 945:Poets from the Austrian Empire 911:Works by or about Max Letteris 548:]. Vienna: Anstalt. 1860. 531:Hebrew rendering of Frankel's 1: 772:"Letteris, Meïr Halevi (Max)" 717:"Леттерис, Меир (Макс)"  649:"Letteris, Meïr Halevi (Max)" 679:Friedlander, Yehuda (2008). 400:. Zolkiev and Leipzig. 1823. 321:, with a Hebrew supplement, 1016: 960:English–Hebrew translators 940:19th-century Austrian Jews 848:Breuer, Mordechai (1971). 319:Wiener Vierteljahrsschrift 257:('Legends of the Orient', 156:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 113:Meïr Halevi (Max) Letteris 1000:University of Lviv alumni 965:French–Hebrew translators 955:Charles University alumni 505:Spinoza's Lehre und Leben 28: 980:Latin–Hebrew translators 209:In 1826, he entered the 164:Ludwig August von Frankl 856:(in Hebrew): 88, n. 3. 781:The Jewish Encyclopedia 658:The Jewish Encyclopedia 497:2027/hvd.32044089108377 325:(Vienna, 1853), and of 271:Vienna Imperial Library 995:People of the Haskalah 778:; et al. (eds.). 655:; et al. (eds.). 443:Hebrew translation of 431:Anton Edler von Schmid 342: 970:Hebrew-language poets 726:Brockhaus & Efron 541:Tofes kinnor ve-ʻugav 489:Legends of the Orient 392:]. Zolkiev. 1824. 340: 317:He was the editor of 282:Tofes kinnor ve-'ugav 211:University of Lemberg 174:Letteris was born in 134:. He translated into 533:Nach der Zerstreuung 484:Sagen aus dem Orient 365:Partial bibliography 255:Sagen aus dem Orient 41:Meïr Halevi Letteris 990:People from Zhovkva 887:Ginsburg, Christian 728:. pp. 181–182. 378:Collection of Poems 814:10.1553/0x00282e27 712:Ginzburg, Baron D. 343: 333:The Letteris Bible 160:Friedrich Schiller 832:. pp. 77–78. 828:Moseley, Marcus. 708:Katznelson, J. 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Zolkiev
Galicia
Habsburg Empire
Vienna
Austria-Hungary
Hebrew
German
Haskala
Yiddish
Austrian
Galician
Haskala
Hebrew
Virgil
Lucian
Jean Racine
Lord Byron
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Friedrich Schiller
Ludwig August von Frankl
Zolkiev
Amsterdam
John III Sobieski
Jewish
Nachman Krochmal
German
French
Latin literature
University of Lemberg

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