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DUKES, LEOPOLD (1810-1891)

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DUKES, LEOPOLD (1810-1891)

DUKES, See also:
LEOPOLD (M.H. Ger. Liupolt; O.H. Ger. Liupald, from hut, Mod. Ger. Leute, " people," and paid, " bold," i.e. " bold for the people ")
LEOPOLD (1810-1891) , Hungarian critic of Jewish literature. He spent about twenty years in See also:

England, and from his researches in the Bodleian library and the See also:

BRITISH

British Museum (which contain two of the most valuable See also:

HEBREW

Hebrew See also:

LIBRARIES

libraries in the See also:

WORLD

world) Dukes was able to See also:

COMPLETE

complete the See also:

WORK

work of See also:

ZUNZ, LEOPOLD (1794-1886)

Zunz (q.v.). The most popular work of Dukes was his Rabbinische Blumenlese (1844), in which he collected the rabbinic See also:

PROVERBS, BOOK OF (Heb. Mishle Slzelomoh, " Proverbs of Solomon," abridged by the later Jews to Mishle; Septuagint, irapotpiai or II. EaX.; Lat. Vulg. Parabolae sal. and Liber proverbiorum)

proverbs and illustrated them from the gnomic literatures of other peoples. Dukes made many contributions to See also:

PHILOLOGY

philology, but his best work was connected with the See also:

MEDIEVAL

medieval Hebrew See also:

POETRY

poetry, especially See also:

Ibn Gabirol. (I.

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