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Meyer Elkan Fürth () was a German writer and teacher, who belonged to the school of the
Me'assefim The Me'assefim () were a group of Hebrew writers who between 1784 and 1811 published their works in the periodical ''Ha-Me'assef'' (), which they had founded. History In 1782 Moses Mendelssohn's German translation of the Pentateuch had appeared. I ...
. He annotated a mathematical work by Abraham Joseph Menz that had appeared in Berlin in 1775, and wrote a number of Hebrew and German works.


Publications

* * * A commentary on the ''Sefer ibronot'', with German translation. *
Moses Mendelssohn Moses Mendelssohn (6 September 1729 – 4 January 1786) was a German-Jewish philosopher and theologian. His writings and ideas on Jews and the Jewish religion and identity were a central element in the development of the ''Haskalah'', or ' ...
's '' Phädon'', with a commentary in refutation of Mendelssohn's views. * A polemic against the
Reform Reform ( lat, reformo) means the improvement or amendment of what is wrong, corrupt, unsatisfactory, etc. The use of the word in this way emerges in the late 18th century and is believed to originate from Christopher Wyvill's Association movement ...
movement. * * * A polemic against Joseph Wolf and Gotthold Salomon's book ''Der Charakter des Judenthums'', and against the latter's ''Selimas Stunden der Weihe'', in Judæo-German. * A portion of the preceding work in German. * A commentary to Maimonides' '' Hilkhot kiddush ha-ḥodesh'', together with Scriptural comments and novellæ.


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