Letter from Wise, Isaac Mayer to Morais, Sabato. Cincinnati, OH; Sep 1876
- Title
- Letter from Wise, Isaac Mayer to Morais, Sabato. Cincinnati, OH; Sep 1876
- Date Created
- 15 September 1876
- Format
- 4 pages on 2 sheets
- Language(s)
- English
- Source
- Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies
- Sabato Morais Collection, Box 2, Folder 3
- Has Format
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3mw2910g/manifest.json
- Link to Colenda
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3mw2910g
- Provenance
- Transfer of Custody from the Hebrew Education Society, 10 March 1913.
- Is Format Of
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/judaicadh/morais/main/TEI/SMBx2FF3_57.xml
- content
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[Hebrew]
OFFICE OF THE
Hebrew Union College.
Cincinnati, Sept. 15 1876
Rev. Mr. Morrais
Dear Sir & Colleague.
It was my duty and would have been my pleasure to answer your kind notes to me ere this, but [Hebrew] my time is so parceled out, that I am its slave. While in the East the heat so completely reduced me, that I was forced to return home without having seen anybody. Since my return I had to go over the whole ground of this year's course in the college, viz over [Hebrew] in the [Hebrew], over [Hebrew] in [Hebrew] and [Hebrew] with the [Hebrew], besides the portions in [Hebrew] and [Hebrew], which kept me
steadily tied down at the books. This is my excuse.
Luzzatto's Aram. Grammar has been translated in English by Goldammer, and we expect the book every day. What is most needed now is a rabbinical lexicon for students, to be brief and comprehensive. We have the [Hebrew] and [Hebrew] with Buxdorf's and Landau's additions, also [Hebrew], Sachs' and Pereles' contributions, Nock's dictiona-ry, and there is now appearing in Breslau Levy's Rabbinical Lexicon (in German), to take these together with the existing Aram. lexica, and extract a brief lexicon for students, would be a meritorious work. Next we should have an English translation of the [Hebrew]
and [Hebrew] as introductions to the philosophical literature.
We have now in the college 24 students, ten in the class of this year, and 14 in my class, who take Talmud [Hebrew], mishnah [Hebrew], Bible [Hebrew] and [Hebrew], Mam. Grammar and history. Later in the season I will take [Hebrew]. It keeps me busy, and yet my opponents cry honor, because I do what they neither could nor would do.
I believe, if the Philad. congregations come into the Union, that the Maimonides College could be re-opened as a Preparatory with four classes for four years as the one I am at now, and at the next meeting of the Council a committee could be appointed
to carry this into effect. In my opinion, a teacher having but two hours a day to teach, must have no more htan 12 to 14 students. As the matter stands now, our Preparatory will be full in two years. We have but two students from the East, consequently a Preparatory in the East, i.e. In Philadelphia might be just as well filled in three to four years. [Hebrew].
I would have to write you much more, but must close here with my best wishes, my assurance of highest regard and a heartfelt [Hebrew]. Yours
Isaac M Wise - Identifier
- p3mw2910g
- identifier
- SMBx2FF3_57
Part of Letter from Wise, Isaac Mayer to Morais, Sabato. Cincinnati, OH; Sep 1876
Wise, Isaac Mayer and Morais, Sabato, “Letter from Wise, Isaac Mayer to Morais, Sabato. Cincinnati, OH; Sep 1876”, Sabato Morais Digital Repository, accessed October 18, 2024, https://judaicadhpenn.org/legacyprojects/s/morais/item/90921