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Hebrew Humor and Other Essays

Note 147-1 — XIII LEOPOLD ZUNZ[140-1]

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In Geiger's Jüdische Zeitschrift (1868) Zunz has an article containing several other amusing mistakes made by Christian scholars, when translating Hebrew phrases into Latin, or into the vernacular. The following is a characteristic specimen: The well-known Hebrew phrase, occurring in the Passover Hagadah, זו פרישות דרך ארץ, is translated by Rittangel by Dispersio per omnem viam terrae!

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