Levi Bodenheimer (December 13, 1807, at
Karlsruhe
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– August 25, 1867, at
Krefeld
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) was a German
consistorial grand rabbi
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at Krefeld (1844-1855), in the Rhine province. He occupied the position of rabbi at
Hildesheim
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between 1831 and 1844, at last in charge of the newly create Hildesheim Land Rabbinate (established in 1842).
Bodenheimer published:
*"Das Testament Unter Benennung einer Schenkung, nach Rabbinischen Quellen" (Krefeld, 1848)
*"Das Paraphrastische der Arabischen Uebersetzung des R. Saadja Gaon"
*''The Blessing of Moses''
*''The Song of Moses''
The last two of these were comparisons of the translations contained in
Brian Walton's ''Polyglot'', with a special reference to the Greek and Arabic variants.
References
*
Chaim David Lippe, ''Bibliographisches Lexicon''
*Winter and Wünsche, ''Die Jüdische Litteratur'', iii.
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1807 births
1867 deaths
19th-century German rabbis