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with a number of other mostly pseudepigraphic works of similar character (Vilna, 1802), adding valuable notes. In the preface of this edition he makes the first known attempt to give a complete history of the midrashic literature. A plagiarist,
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It was due to his father's influence that he developed a literary activity of a far more scientific character than was usually found at that age or in that country. Especially interested in the history of the old
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movement, and the dry scholasticism which dominated the rabbinic leadership of Poland at that time. According to the custom of the time, he married at the age of twelve, but continued his studies in the
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in other cities, and after a few years returned home, where he completed his studies under his father. Like his father, he never officiated as
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Abraham's interest in secular knowledge, quite rare in his environment, is also manifest in the writing of a Hebrew geography,
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to which he added an introduction and notes (Vilna, 1808). Of his numerous manuscripts which contained glosses to the
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exegetical notes and biographical data about his father (Jerusalem, 1889), and
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