Abraham Moses Luncz
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Abraham Moses Luncz (Hebrew: אברהם לונץ) was a Russian scholar and editor born at Kovno, Russia
. He went when very young to Jerusalem. Luncz, who suffered from early blindness
, founded, in conjunction with Dr. Koisewski, an institution for the blind at Jerusalem.
In the exploration of the Holy Land
, Luncz has rendered great services from the historical, geographical, and physical standpoints, through his guide-books for Palestine
, his Palestine annuals, and his Jerusalem almanac
:
He owned a Hebrew printing-press, from which he issued a number of works by Palestinian scholars, Estori Farḥi's Kaftor wa-Feraḥ and Josef Schwarz
's Tebu'ot ha-Areẓ being the first works published. As of 1904, he had in press a new edition of the Jerusalem Talmud
with commentary and introduction.
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
. He went when very young to Jerusalem. Luncz, who suffered from early blindness
Blindness
Blindness is the condition of lacking visual perception due to physiological or neurological factors.Various scales have been developed to describe the extent of vision loss and define blindness...
, founded, in conjunction with Dr. Koisewski, an institution for the blind at Jerusalem.
In the exploration of the Holy Land
Holy Land
The Holy Land is a term which in Judaism refers to the Kingdom of Israel as defined in the Tanakh. For Jews, the Land's identifiction of being Holy is defined in Judaism by its differentiation from other lands by virtue of the practice of Judaism often possible only in the Land of Israel...
, Luncz has rendered great services from the historical, geographical, and physical standpoints, through his guide-books for Palestine
Palestine
Palestine is a conventional name, among others, used to describe the geographic region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, and various adjoining lands....
, his Palestine annuals, and his Jerusalem almanac
Almanac
An almanac is an annual publication that includes information such as weather forecasts, farmers' planting dates, and tide tables, containing tabular information in a particular field or fields often arranged according to the calendar etc...
:
- Netibot Ẓiyyon we-Yerushalayim: TopographyTopographyTopography is the study of Earth's surface shape and features or those ofplanets, moons, and asteroids...
of Jerusalem and Its Surroundings (vol. i, 1876) - Jerusalem, Jahrbuch zur Beförderung einer Wissenschaftlich Genauen Kenntnis des Jetzigen und des Alten Palästina (Hebrew and German, 6 vols., 1881–1903, Hebrew: ירושלים, שנתון לידיעת ארץ ישראל)
- Literarischer Palästina-Almanach (Hebrew; since 1894).
He owned a Hebrew printing-press, from which he issued a number of works by Palestinian scholars, Estori Farḥi's Kaftor wa-Feraḥ and Josef Schwarz
Josef Schwarz
Josef Schwarz is a retired German long jumper. He represented West Germany at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. Schwarz set the world's best year performance in the men's long jump in the year 1970: 8.35 metres ; this also was the world record at low altitude, until 1975...
's Tebu'ot ha-Areẓ being the first works published. As of 1904, he had in press a new edition of the Jerusalem Talmud
Jerusalem Talmud
The Jerusalem Talmud, talmud meaning "instruction", "learning", , is a collection of Rabbinic notes on the 2nd-century Mishnah which was compiled in the Land of Israel during the 4th-5th century. The voluminous text is also known as the Palestinian Talmud or Talmud de-Eretz Yisrael...
with commentary and introduction.