1. Abraham Harkavy was a Russian historian and orientalist.
10 Facts About Abraham Harkavy
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Abraham Harkavy studied initially in the Volozhin yeshiva and graduated from the Teacher's Institute in Vilna.
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Abraham Harkavy continued his studies in Berlin and Paris, receiving a doctorate in history in 1872.
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Abraham Harkavy become involved in Jewish communal life in Russia, and was extremely active in various capacities.
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From 1864 Abraham 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.
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Abraham Harkavy remained in this position for the rest of his life.
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Abraham Harkavy was a prolific author, both as an individual and in collaboration with other Russian-Jewish scholars.
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Abraham Harkavy wrote in Russian, German, and most notably in Hebrew, which had only recently been revived as a language of common discourse.
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Abraham Harkavy furthermore showed that Slavonic was the language spoken by the Jews in the Slavonic countries until the arrival of German Jews in great numbers during the Crusades.
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Abraham Harkavy proved that the Jewish writers in Russia and other Slavonic countries used Slavonic words and phrases in their Biblical and Talmudic commentaries.