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Rashi

Maurice Liber

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1. Front matter2. TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH3. CHAPTER I4. CHAPTER II5. CHAPTER III6. CHAPTER IV7. CHAPTER V THE COMMENTARIES-GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS8. CHAPTER VI THE BIBLICAL COMMENTARIES9. CHAPTER VII THE TALMUDIC COMMENTARIES10. CHAPTER VIII THE RESPONSA11. CHAPTER IX WORKS COMPOSED UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF RASHI12. CHAPTER X POETRY ATTRIBUTED TO RASHI13. CHAPTER XI FROM THE DEATH OF RASHI TO THE EXPULSION OF THE JEWS FROM FRANCE14. CHAPTER XII FROM THE EXPULSION OF THE JEWS FROM FRANCE TO THE PRESENT TIME15. BOOK I RASHI THE MAN16. CHAPTER I17. CHAPTER II18. CHAPTER III19. CHAPTER IV20. BOOK II21. CHAPTER V22. CHAPTER VI23. CHAPTER VII24. CHAPTER VIII25. CHAPTER IX26. CHAPTER X27. BOOK III28. CHAPTER XI29. CHAPTER XII30. Book I. Chap. 1. - On the situation of the Jews In France in general, the following works may be read with profit: Zunz, <I>Zur Geschichte und Literatur</I>, Berlin, 1845. Gudemann, <I>Geschichte des Erziehungswesens und der Cultur der Juden in Frankreich und Deutschland</I>, Vienna, 1880, 8 (Hebrew translation by Frledberg under the title <I>Ha-Torah weha- Hayim</I>, ed. Achiassaf, Warsaw, 1896).31. Book II. Chap. V. - Concerning the <I>laazim</I> see A. Darmesteter in the <I>Romania</I> I.(1882), and various other essays reprinted in the <I>Reliques scientifiques</I>, Paris, 1890, vol. i. The deciphering of the <I>laazim</I> by Berliner in his edition of the commentary on the Pentateuch is defective, and that of Landau in his edition of the Talmud (Prague, 1829; 2d ed., 1839) is still more inadequate. A. Darmesteter's essay on the <I>laazim</I> of all the Biblical commentaries will soon appear.32. Book III. Chaps. XI-XII. - The history of Rashi's influence forms part of the general history of later rabbinical literature. Mention, therefore, may be made of the following works, besides the history of Graetz, the works of Geiger and of A. Levy, and the references in Winter und Wunsche, II:
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