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JOSEPH (1835-1894), Jewish See also:rabbi, was See also:born in See also:Hungary in 1835, and died at See also:Munich in 1894. He was one of the first rabbis trained at the new type of See also:seminary (See also:Breslau). Perles' most important essays were on folk-See also:lore and See also:custom. There is much that is striking and See also:original in his See also:history of See also:marriage (See also:Die judische Hochzeit in nachbiblischer Zeit, 1860), and of See also:mourning customs (Die Leichenfeierlichkeiten See also:im nachbiblischen Judenthum, 1861), his contributions to the See also:sources of the Arabian Nights (Zur rabbinischen Sprach-und Sagenkunde, 1873), and his notes on rabbinic antiquities (Beitrage zur rabbinischen Sprachund Altertumskunde, 1893). Perles' essays are See also:rich in suggestiveness, and have been the starting-point of much fruitful See also:research. He also wrote an See also:essay on See also:Nachmanides, and a See also:biography and See also:critical appreciation of Rashba (1863). (I.

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