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| Other authors / contributors: | Daṿid, Avraham.
Weinberger, Leon J.
Ordan, Dena.
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| ISBN: | 0585097003
9780585097008
9780817352905
0817352902
9780817386894
0817386890
0817305963
9780817305963
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | תרגום של: כרוניקה עברית מפראג.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 97-102) and index.
Restrictions unspecified
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
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Print version record.
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| Summary: | A Hebrew Chronicle from Prague, by one or possibly two anonymous writers in the years prior to 1615, reflects the determination of the Bohemian Jewish community to record the story of their travail in exile. The volume is composed of short entries focusing on the Jewish communities in Bohemia from 1389 to 1611. The earlier entries had their basis in written documents, which are cited in some cases by the chronicler. Events occurring closer to the time of the writing apparently were recorded from verbal accounts of the elders in the Jewish community. The author was neither a scholar nor a rabbi, for the Hebrew of the chronicle is crude and liberally sprinkled with expressions in the German vernacular. In his own words, the chronicler committed his materials to writing "to serve as a token of remembrance for us and our descendants forever."
In 1978, research scholar Abraham David chanced upon the chronicle while examining the rare book collection of the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. David realized the enormous importance of the work to scholars of Jewish historiography, Bohemian and Slavic history, and Jewish life in Eastern Europe. The medieval Hebrew text of the chronicle was published in a critical edition edited by David with a lengthy introduction and extensive historical notes written in modern Hebrew. This edition also included two hitherto unknown martyrologies.
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| Other form: | Print version: Kronikah Ìvrit mi-Prag me-reshit ha-me'ah ha-17. English. Hebrew chronicle from Prague, c. 1615. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©1993 0817305963
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