Name Israel Davidson Died 1939, Great Neck | Role Writer | |
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Books Parody In Jewish Literature, Genizah Studies Similar People Solomon ibn Gabirol, Louis Ginzberg, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin, Salomon Buber | ||
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Israel Davidson (1870, Jonava, Lithuania - 1939, Great Neck, New York) was an American Jewish writer and publisher and has been recognized as one of the leading American Hebrew writers in his era. His magnum opus was the four volume Otsar ha-shirah veha-piyut = Thesaurus of Mediaeval Hebrew Poetry (NY, 1924–1933).
Davidson studied in yeshivas in Jonava, Volozhin, and Slobodka. In 1898, he emigrated to New York, worked at a few occupations before earning a Ph.D from Columbia University.
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