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Lajos Blau

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Lajos Blau (German: Ludwig Blau; 29 April 1861 – 8 March 1936) was a Jewish–Hungarian scholar of philosophy and Oriental studies, professor of Jewish studies, and publicist born at Putnok, in the Kingdom of Hungary. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 33 relations: Amoraim, Aramaic, Bratislava, Budapest, Budapest University of Jewish Studies, Development of the Hebrew Bible canon, Doctor of Philosophy, Eötvös Loránd University, German language, Hebrew Bible, Hebrew language, History of the Jews in Hungary, Isidore Singer, Jewish folklore, Jewish history, Jewish literature, Jewish studies, Josh Kopelman, Kingdom of Hungary, Latin honors, Leo Baeck Institute New York, Masoretic Text, Moritz Steinschneider, Oriental studies, Philosophy, Putnok, Rabbinic literature, Richard Gottheil, Talmud, Tannaim, The Jewish Encyclopedia, The Jewish Quarterly Review, Yeshiva.

  2. 19th-century Hungarian educators
  3. 19th-century Hungarian historians
  4. 19th-century Jewish biblical scholars
  5. 20th-century Hungarian Jews
  6. 20th-century Hungarian educators
  7. Budapest University alumni
  8. Contributors to the Jewish Encyclopedia
  9. Hungarian Hebraists
  10. Jewish encyclopedists
  11. People from Putnok

Amoraim

Amoraim (אמוראים, singular Amora אמורא; "those who say" or "those who speak over the people", or "spokesmen") refers to Jewish scholars of the period from about 200 to 500 CE, who "said" or "told over" the teachings of the Oral Torah.

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Aramaic

Aramaic (ˀərāmiṯ; arāmāˀiṯ) is a Northwest Semitic language that originated in the ancient region of Syria and quickly spread to Mesopotamia, the southern Levant, southeastern Anatolia, Eastern Arabia and the Sinai Peninsula, where it has been continually written and spoken in different varieties for over three thousand years.

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Bratislava

Bratislava (German: Pressburg or Preßburg,; Hungarian: Pozsony; Slovak: Prešporok), is the capital and largest city of Slovakia and the fourth largest of all cities on Danube river.

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Budapest

Budapest is the capital and most populous city of Hungary.

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Budapest University of Jewish Studies

The Budapest University of Jewish Studies (Országos Rabbiképző – Zsidó Egyetem, or Országos Rabbiképző Intézet / Jewish Theological Seminary – University of Jewish Studies / Landesrabbinerschule in Budapest) is a university in Budapest, Hungary.

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Development of the Hebrew Bible canon

There is no scholarly consensus as to when the canon of the Hebrew Bible (or Tanakh) was fixed.

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Doctor of Philosophy

A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD or DPhil; philosophiae doctor or) is a terminal degree that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of graduate study and original research.

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Eötvös Loránd University

Eötvös Loránd University (Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem, ELTE, also known as University of Budapest) is a Hungarian public research university based in Budapest.

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German language

German (Standard High German: Deutsch) is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, mainly spoken in Western and Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italian province of South Tyrol.

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Hebrew Bible

The Hebrew Bible or Tanakh (. Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. Hebrew), also known in Hebrew as Miqra (Hebrew), is the canonical collection of Hebrew scriptures, comprising the Torah, the Nevi'im, and the Ketuvim.

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Hebrew language

Hebrew (ʿÎbrit) is a Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic language family.

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History of the Jews in Hungary

The history of the Jews in Hungary dates back to at least the Kingdom of Hungary, with some records even predating the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin in 895 CE by over 600 years.

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Isidore Singer

Isidore Singer (10 November 1859 – 20 February 1939) was an American encyclopedist and editor of The Jewish Encyclopedia and founder of the American League for the Rights of Man. Lajos Blau and Isidore Singer are Jewish encyclopedists.

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Jewish folklore

Jewish folklore are legends, music, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, fairy tales, stories, tall tales, and customs that are the traditions of Judaism.

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Jewish history

Jewish history is the history of the Jews, their nation, religion, and culture, as it developed and interacted with other peoples, religions, and cultures.

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Jewish literature

Jewish literature includes works written by Jews on Jewish themes, literary works written in Jewish languages on various themes, and literary works in any language written by Jewish writers.

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Jewish studies

Jewish studies (or Judaic studies; sciences of Judaism) is an academic discipline centered on the study of Jews and Judaism.

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Josh Kopelman

Joshua Kopelman is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and philanthropist.

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Kingdom of Hungary

The Kingdom of Hungary was a monarchy in Central Europe that existed for nearly a millennium, from the Middle Ages into the 20th century.

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Latin honors

Latin honours are a system of Latin phrases used in some colleges and universities to indicate the level of distinction with which an academic degree has been earned.

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Leo Baeck Institute New York

The Leo Baeck Institute New York (LBI) is a research institute in New York City dedicated to the study of German-Jewish history and culture, founded in 1955.

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Masoretic Text

The Masoretic Text (MT or 𝕸; Nūssāḥ hamMāsōrā, lit. 'Text of the Tradition') is the authoritative Hebrew and Aramaic text of the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) in Rabbinic Judaism.

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Moritz Steinschneider

Moritz Steinschneider (30 March 1816 – 24 January 1907) was a Moravian bibliographer and Orientalist. Lajos Blau and Moritz Steinschneider are Jewish orientalists.

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Oriental studies

Oriental studies is the academic field that studies Near Eastern and Far Eastern societies and cultures, languages, peoples, history and archaeology.

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Philosophy

Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, value, mind, and language.

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Putnok

Putnok (Slovak: Putnok/Putník) is a town in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county, Northern Hungary.

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Rabbinic literature

Rabbinic literature, in its broadest sense, is the entire spectrum of works authored by rabbis throughout Jewish history.

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Richard Gottheil

Richard James Horatio Gottheil (13 October 1862 – 22 May 1936) was an English American Semitic scholar, Zionist, and founding father of Zeta Beta Tau fraternity. Lajos Blau and Richard Gottheil are Contributors to the Jewish Encyclopedia and Jewish encyclopedists.

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Talmud

The Talmud (תַּלְמוּד|Talmūḏ|teaching) is the central text of Rabbinic Judaism and the primary source of Jewish religious law (halakha) and Jewish theology.

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Tannaim

Tannaim (Amoraic Hebrew: תנאים "repeaters", "teachers", singular tanna תנא, borrowed from Aramaic) were the rabbinic sages whose views are recorded in the Mishnah, from approximately 10–220 CE.

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The Jewish Encyclopedia

The Jewish Encyclopedia: A Descriptive Record of the History, Religion, Literature, and Customs of the Jewish People from the Earliest Times to the Present Day is an English-language encyclopedia containing over 15,000 articles on the history, culture, and state of Judaism up to the early 20th century.

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The Jewish Quarterly Review

The Jewish Quarterly Review is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering Jewish studies.

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Yeshiva

A yeshiva or jeshibah (ישיבה||sitting; pl. ישיבות, or) is a traditional Jewish educational institution focused on the study of Rabbinic literature, primarily the Talmud and halacha (Jewish law), while Torah and Jewish philosophy are studied in parallel.

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See also

19th-century Hungarian educators

19th-century Hungarian historians

19th-century Jewish biblical scholars

20th-century Hungarian Jews

20th-century Hungarian educators

Budapest University alumni

Contributors to the Jewish Encyclopedia

Hungarian Hebraists

Jewish encyclopedists

People from Putnok

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lajos_Blau

Also known as L. Blau, Ludwig Blau.