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Essays in Jewish Biography, by Alexander Marx
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The first four Jewish scholars whose lives and works are described in this collection of popular essays flourished in the Middle Ages; the remaining eight were born in the 19th century, and one, Max L. Margolis, died only about fifteen years ago. At least six of these eight, all of whom Professor Marx knew, were master builders of the towering structure of the Wissenschaft des Judentums, of which the author himself could truly say, pars magna fui.
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