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Nahum Slouschz ( Hebrew : נחום סלושץ) (born November 1872, Odessa , died 1969 Israel ), was a Russian Hebrew litterateur , writer and translator . His 1902 doctoral thesis , "La Renaissance de la Littérature Hebraïque", was published first in French and then revised and extended for publication in Hebrew under the title "Korot ha-Sufrut ha-Ìbrit ha-Hadasha" in the Tushiyah . In 1909, an English version of the thesis, incorporating the new material and relating back to the old, was published under the title The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) . The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) . translated by Henrietta Szold (1st Edition ed.).1
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Nahum Slouschz (right) with S.Shalom (standing) and Asher Barash (center), 1948 Nahum Slouschz ( ) (November 1872- died December 1966), was a Russian-born Israeli writer, translator and archaeologist.He was known for his studies of the "secret" Jews of Portugal and Jews of Africa.
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Nahum Slouschz (right) with S. Shalom (standing) and Asher Barash (center), 1948 Nahum Slouschz ( ) (November 1872 - December 1966) was a Russian-born Israeli writer, translator and archaeologist. He was known for his studies of the "secret" Jews of Portugal and the history of the Jewish communities in North Africa, mostly, in Libya and Tunisia .
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Shalom (standing) and Asher Barash (center), 1948 Nahum Slouschz ( ) (November 1872 – December 1966) was a Russian-born Israeli writer, translator and archaeologist. He was known for his studies of the "secret" Jews of Portugal and the history of the Jewish communities in North Africa, mostly, in Libya and Tunisia .
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Shalom (standing) and Asher Barash (center), 1948 Nahum Slouschz ( Hebrew : נחום סלושץ ; November 1872 – December 1966) was a Russian-born Israeli writer, translator and archaeologist. He was known for his studies of the "secret" Jews of Portugal and the history of the Jewish communities in North Africa, mostly, in Libya and Tunisia .
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russian hebrew
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