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Elkan, Moses

The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia

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Russian physician and Hebrew scholar; born at Tulchin, government of Podolsk; died at St. Petersburg Jan. 31, 1822. He wrote: a "shir," a hymn in Hebrew and French, addressed to Czar Alexander I., Munich, 1811; and a manual, in German, of the history of the Jews, accompanied by a geographical sketch of Palestine, for the use of Jewish schools, later translated into Russian by Z. Minor, Moscow, 1880.

Bibliography:
  • Voskhod, 1881, 2:41;
  • Zeitlin, Bibl. Post-Mendels. p. 77.
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Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Elkan, Moses'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tje/​e/elkan-moses.html. 1901.
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