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Digitization of Jewish Nahdah Texts
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In 1909, an Arabic book was published in Egypt under the title Al-Talmud: asluhu wa-tasalsuluhu wa-adabuhu (The Talmud: Its Origin, Transmission, and Ethics).1 As will later be discussed in more detail, this volume, containing a translation of the mishnaic tractate Pirkei Avot (Ethics of the Fathers) was intended to be the first of a multivolume translation of the Talmud into Arabic. However, the chief rabbi of Cairo, R. Raphael Aharon ben Shimon, objected to the book, and this led to its being disregarded by the Jewish public....
Title: Digitization of Jewish Nahdah Texts
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In 1909, an Arabic book was published in Egypt under the title Al-Talmud: asluhu wa-tasalsuluhu wa-adabuhu (The Talmud: Its Origin, Transmission, and Ethics).
1 As will later be discussed in more detail, this volume, containing a translation of the mishnaic tractate Pirkei Avot (Ethics of the Fathers) was intended to be the first of a multivolume translation of the Talmud into Arabic.
However, the chief rabbi of Cairo, R.
Raphael Aharon ben Shimon, objected to the book, and this led to its being disregarded by the Jewish public.
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