Category
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Jørgen Alexander Knudtzon
Norwegian historian and linguist (1854–1917)
Abraham Skorka
Argentine biophysicist, rabbi and author
Justinas Pranaitis
Lithuanian priest (1861–1917)
Yohanan Levi
historian and philologist
Hebraist
A Hebraist is a specialist in Jewish, Hebrew and Hebraic studies. Specifically, British and German scholars of the 18th and 19th centuries who were involved in the study of Hebrew language and literature were commonly known by this designation, at a time when Hebrew was little understood outside practicing Jewish communities.
Chaim Kaplan
Belarusian-Polish educator and Holocaust victim
Jean-Noël Paquot
Belgian theologian, historian, Hebrew scholar and bibliographer (1722-1803)