Hirsch Edelmann

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Died	20 November 1858(1858-11-20) (aged 52–53) Berlin, Prussia

Hirsch Edelmann (1805 – 20 November 1858) was a

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Edelmann spent about ten years in England, and was one of the first competent scholars to examine the manuscripts and rare printed books of the Oppenheim collection in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, and to give the outside world some knowledge of their contents. In this work he was assisted by Leopold Dukes; and they jointly edited and published "Ginze Oxford" (with an English translation by Marcus Heymann Breslau, London, 1851).

To this period of Edelmann's activity belong also:

• "Derek Ṭobim," ethical wills of Judah ibn Tibbon and Maimonides, also ancient Arabic and Greek proverbs rendered into Hebrew, with English translation by Bresslau, London, 1852
• "Dibre Ḥefeẓ," extracts from various unprinted works, London, 1853
• "Tehillah la-Yesharim," poem by Moses Ḥayyim Luzzatto from an Oxford manuscript, with preface by Edelmann, London, 1854
• "Ḥemdah Genuzah," unedited manuscripts by early rabbinical authorities, with a literary-historical introduction, Königsberg, 1856.

Edelmann also brought out a valuable critical new edition of Ishtori Haparchi's "Kaftor u-Feraḥ," Berlin, 1851,^[1] and wrote "Gedullat Sha'ul," a biography of Rabbi Saul Wahl, the alleged one-day King of Poland, with an appendix, "Nir le-Dawid ule-Zar'o," the genealogy of Denis M. Samuel of London, a descendant of that rabbi, London, 1854.

In 1852 Edelmann settled in Berlin. For three months before his death he was in the insane department of the Charité hospital of that city.

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References

• Zeitlin, William (1891–95). Bibliotheca Hebraica Post-Mendelssohniana. Leipzig.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link), s.v.
• Allgemeine Zeitung des Judenthums (in German). No. 51. 1858. {{cite magazine}}: Missing or empty |title= (help
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• Fürst, Julius (1863). "Edelmann". Bibliotheca Judaica (in German). Vol. 1 (New ed.). Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann. p. 222.
• Haparchi, Ishtori (1852). Edelmann, Ẓevi Hirsch (ed.). ספר כפתור ופרח (in Hebrew). Berlin: Yulius Zittenfeld.
•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; et al., eds. (1901–1906). "Edelmann (Hen-Tob), Hirsch". The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.