Letter from Adler, Cyrus to Morais, Sabato. Baltimore, MD; Nov 1883
- Title
- Letter from Adler, Cyrus to Morais, Sabato. Baltimore, MD; Nov 1883
- Date Created
- 7 November 1883
- Format
- 3 pages on 1 sheet
- Language(s)
- English
- Source
- Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies
- Sabato Morais Collection, Box 3, Folder 5
- Has Format
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3s75743k/manifest.json
- Link to Colenda
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3s75743k
- Provenance
- Transfer of Custody from the Hebrew Education Society, 10 March 1913.
- Is Format Of
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/judaicadh/morais/main/TEI/SMBx3FF5_37.xml
- content
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Baltimore Nov 7th 1883
Dear Mr. Morais
In answer to your welcome letter I would like to write you all the new things I have learnt in the last few weeks some of them theories but the larger number facts and when I say new things you will understand them to be new to me. My dread of the Germans is begin-ning to wear off and I can account for Haupts conservatism from the fact that Delitzsch was his instructor in Hebrew. We over here, like Luzzatto, believe in the Talmudic language and we find cognate forms in other languages We (ofcourse I mean our Professor) think that [Hebrew] has no connection with [Hebrew] but is either from [Hebrew] found in Ethiopic or else the Assyrian relative pronoun which is ša. The discussion which you mention as to the comparative antiquity of Hebrew & Aramaic seems to me to be a fruitless one. The most we
can say is that certain old forms which one language has lost, have been retained in another[.]
Could you give me any references or information concerning the word [Hebrew] I think it can be identified with the Assyrian Arax samma which you will re[c]ognize as meaning " the eighth month." I am already at work on an Assyrian tablet and in Arabic we read R. Saadia's paraphrase of Genesis. I find Ethiopic, thus far at least, my most difficult study. It is quite fortunate for me that I read a little of the Tarjam[?] during the summer. It is almost the same as Syriac and is very useful for purposes of comparison.
One of my classmates, from Rome, informed me that the Library of Parma contained a MS of the Bible of the ninth century. Have you ever heard anything of it
from your friend the Librarian?
We are to have an Oriental Society here to meet once a week, at which special papers, new books and the magazines are to be discussed and the University has appropriated two thousand dollars for Semitic books so that our library will receive a con-siderable addition.
I attend Schneeburgers synagogue, occasionally going to hear Dr. Szold. I am told that Mr. Krauskopf is to preach here next week, but as he will be at the Temple I shall not hear him.
With my regards to your family and yourself
I remain Truly Yours
Cyrus Adler - Identifier
- p3s75743k
- identifier
- SMBx3FF5_37
Part of Letter from Adler, Cyrus to Morais, Sabato. Baltimore, MD; Nov 1883
Adler, Cyrus and Morais, Sabato, “Letter from Adler, Cyrus to Morais, Sabato. Baltimore, MD; Nov 1883”, Sabato Morais Digital Repository, accessed October 18, 2024, https://judaicadhpenn.org/legacyprojects/s/morais/item/84499