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Naphtali Hirz Wessely
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “a 18th-century german jewish hebraist and educationist born at hamburg”. Today it says “german -jewish hebraist and educationist”.
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Naphtali Hirz ( Hartwig ) Wessely ( Yiddish : נפתלי הירץ וויזעל , romanized : Naftali Hirtz Vizel ; 9 December 1725 – 28 February 1805) was a German -Jewish Hebraist and educationist . There are <ref group=note> tags on this page, but the references will not show without a template (see the help page ).
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Then
a 18th-century german jewish hebraist and educationist born at hamburg
Now
german -jewish hebraist and educationist
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