Yitzhak Frank (

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in Israel. He has made 11 publications between 1991 and 2001. His works are used as teaching material for Talmud students and rabbis in the Jewish schools in Israel. His book ''The practical Talmud dictionary'' has won the Prize of the Israeli Minister of Education.

Biography

Elliott Michael Frank was born February 4, 1940 in Worcester, Massachusetts, the son of Abraham S. Frank (died 1984) and Sylvia Frank (died 2001). He married Marcia Davis, who is a daughter of Dr. Benjamin L. Davis (died 1992) and Adele B. Davis (died 2005). Rabbi Frank grew up in Worcester. He first studied Aramaic with Rav Michael Bernstein and after that he studied in

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New York. He earned a BA in English and a

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in Religious Education and ''

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'' ("rabbinic ordination") at

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under Yeshivath Rabbenu Yitzhak Elhanan. He was a member of the

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, which was headed by Rav

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. He taught together with Rabbi Nathan Kamenetsky at Yeshiva of Shapell College of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem and taught Jewish studies at yeshivoth in New York. He studied also at the

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, also known as the ''Rabbinical College of Telshe'', (commonly referred to as ''Telz Yeshiva'' or ''Telz'' in short). 1971 he went to Israel, where he lives in Sanhedria HaMurhevet 109/22 in Jerusalem and teaches gemara and Aramaic. In Israel he worked together with Rav Professor

Ezra Zion Melamed Rabbi Ezra Zion Melamed ( he, , also ‎, November 22, 1903 – March 9, 1994) was an Israeli biblical and Talmudic scholar, and lexicographer of Aramaic language. He was born in Shiraz, Persia in 1903. He won the 1987 Israel Prize f ...

Prize of the Israeli Minister of Education (1992/1993)

In 1992 ''The practical Talmud dictionary'' has won the Prize of the Israeli Minister of Education.Introduction to The practical Talmud dictionary: I am deeply gratified that the ''Practical Talmud Dictionary '' ... has won the Prize of the Israeli Minister of Education in 5752 for the academic year 5753 (1992/1993).

Publications

* ''Grammar for Gemara : an introduction to Babylonian Aramaic '' * ''Grammar for Gemara and Targum Onkelos : an introduction to Aramaic by Yitzḥak Frank'' Ariel, United Israel Institutes ; Nanuet, New York, Feldheim Publishers, Jerusalem 2003. * ''Dayḳaʼ nami : diḳduḳ la-Talmud ha-Bavli u-le-Targum ʼOnḳelos'' (

: דיקא נמי : דקדוק לתלמוד הבבלי ולתרדום אונקלוס) Feldhaim (

:פלדהיים) Yerushalayim 1996 * '' Ḥamishah ḥumshe Torah Ariʼel'' (

:חמשה חומשי תורה אריאל ) oder '' The Ariel Chumash : Rashi, Onkelos, sources, Analysis'' United Israel Institutes, Jerusalem 757, 1997 * ''Ariel's practical guide to the Talmud : including the practical Talmud dictionary and grammar for Gemara with new additions and corrections '' * ''Grammar for Gemara and Targum Onkelos'' * with Ezra Zion Melamed: ''The practical Talmud dictionary'' Ariel, United Israel Institutes ; Spring Valley, N.Y. : Feldheim Publishers, Jerusalem 1991

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