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French Hebraist and journalist
Samuel Cahen
(4 August 1796,
Metz, France
? 8 January 1862,
Paris
) was a French
Hebraist
and journalist.
Early life
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Cahen was brought up at
Mainz
. He pursued a course of rabbinical studies while simultaneously devoting much attention to modern languages and literatures. After completing his education Cahen was engaged as a private tutor in Germany. In 1822 he went to Paris, where he assumed the directorship of the Jewish Consistorial School, a position which he held for a number of years. In 1840, Cahen founded the
Archives Israelites
, a French Jewish review.
Major Work
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Cahen's main work was the translation of the
Jewish Bible
into French, with the
Hebrew
on opposite pages, and critical notes and dissertations by himself and others. The entire edition, consisting of eighteen volumes, appeared at Paris in 1851. Despite adverse criticism, denying Cahen critical perception in the choice of his material, the undertaking exerted a great influence upon a whole generation of French Jewry. In addition to this monumental work of his, Cahen was the author of the following:
- Cours de Lecture Hebraique, Suivi de Plusieurs Prieres, avec Traduction Interlineaire, et d'un Petit Vocabulaire Hebreu-Francais
, Metz, 1824
- Precis d'instruction religieuse
, 1829
- A new French translation of the Haggadah of Passover, Paris, 1831?32
- Almanach Hebreu
, 1831.
Cahen was appointed a chevalier of the
Legion of Honor
in 1849.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain
:
Isidore Singer
and
Isaac Broyde
(1901?1906).
"Cahen, Samuel"
. In
Singer, Isidore
; et al. (eds.).
The Jewish Encyclopedia
. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.
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