Bidspirit auction | Neuaufgefundene Hebraeische Bibelhandschriften von A.

Neuaufgefundene Hebraeische Bibelhandschriften von A. Harkavy, illust., 1st and only ed., 1884, in German and Hebrew Bericht an die Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften zu St. Petersburg, von A. Harkavy. Newly discovered Hebrew Bible manuscripts. Report to the Imperial Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg, by A. Harkavy. Owner's note: The owner of the book received this book from the author as a gift. (in Hebrew) St. Petersburg, Eggers, 1884, 1st and only ed., 48 pp., illust. mit 5 Lichtdruck-Tafeln (photoprints) Hebrew Manuscripts in the Russian National Library of St. Petersburg New leather stamped leather binding, marmoreal endpapers, gold lettering to spine, size: 32.5 x 25 cm. Condition: stains to soft cover; yellow / light brown fragile paper; chips to edges because of fragile paper; some repair places Weight: 800 gr. Abraham (Albert) Harkavy (17 October 1835 – 15 March 1919) was a Russian historian and orientalist. Harkavy was born in 1835 to a Lithuanian Jewish family in Navahrudak, Minsk Governorate (in present-day Belarus). He studied initially in the Volozhin yeshiva and graduated from the Teacher's Institute in Vilna. In 1863, he enrolled at the University of St Petersburg, where he studied Oriental Languages and graduated with the degree of master of history in 1868. He continued his studies in Berlin and Paris, receiving a doctorate in history in 1872. Harkavy become involved in Jewish communal life in Russia, and was extremely active in various capacities. From 1864 Harkavy was secretary of the Society for the Promotion of Culture Among the Jews of Russia, and from 1873 he was one of the directors of the Jewish community of St. Petersburg. In 1876 he was appointed head of the Oriental Division in the Imperial Public Library, an astonishing achievement for a Jew under Czarist society's anti-Semitic policies. He remained in this position for the rest of his life. He died in Petrograd.