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TYPE: Book
CONDITION: Unbound
LANGUAGE
Hebrew Marathi
Foreign Language Inscription: יסודי דקדוק לשון הקודש : בלשון מראטי לילדי בני ישראל / מאת יוסף יחזקאל ראג'פורכר ... יחזקאל, יוסף, 1834-1905;אמ'ר'ת'ך מדב'ש תרמ"ב
Inscription Translation: Elementary Grammar of the Holy Tongue: In Marathi Language for the Children of the Children of Israel / By Joseph Yehezkel Rajforcher ... Yehezkel, Yosef, 1834-1905;
ITEM ID: 4134
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Elementary Hebrew Grammer, in Marathi, for Bene-Israel Children

DATE
Year: 1882
Decade: 1880s
Century: 19th (1801-1900)
Notes: 5642=1882

EDITION: 1st

ARTISTS
Name: Nidpas be-vet ha-defus shel Idyukeshen Susaiti
Type: Publisher
Name: Joseph Ezekiel Rajpurkar
Type: Author
Artists Dates: 1834–1905
Artist Information: Joseph Ezekiel Rajpurkar, scholar of the Bene Israel community in Mumbai, studied at the Free Assembly School, where, in 1856, he became a teacher in the David Sassoon Benevolent Institution. After five years he became headmaster, a post which he occupied for 40 years. In 1871 Rajpurkar was appointed Hebrew examiner at the University of Bombay, which elected him a fellow in 1879. A master of Hebrew as well as of Marathi, the vernacular of Bombay, he translated over 20 works of the Hebrew liturgy and many English works of Jewish interest into Marathi. Among his translations of Hebrew liturgical works are the Daily Prayer Book (1889, 1924), the mahzor, piyyutim, and selihot. He also published a Hebrew primer for children, and prayers for various occasions. Rajpurkar was also secretary of the Bene-Israel Benevolent Scoiety.