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LEOPOLD DUKES (1810-1891)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 651 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LEOPOLD
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DUKES (1810-1891)  , Hungarian critic of Jewish literature . He spent about twenty years in
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England, and from his researches in the Bodleian library and the
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British Museum (which contain two of the most valuable
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Hebrew
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libraries in the
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world)
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Dukes was able to
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complete the
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work of
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Zunz (q.v.) . The most popular work of Dukes was his Rabbinische Blumenlese (1844), in which he collected the rabbinic
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proverbs and illustrated them from the gnomic literatures of other peoples . Dukes made many contributions to
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philology, but his best work was connected with the
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medieval Hebrew
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poetry, especially
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Ibn Gabirol . (I .

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