LUNCZ, ABRAHAM MOSES. Yerushalayim / Jerusalem, Jahrbuch zur Beförderung einer wissenschaftlich genauen Kenntniss des jetzigen und des alten Palästinas [Yearbook for the Diffusion of an Accurate Knowledge of Modern and Ancient Palestine]

(ISRAEL, LAND OF).

Georg Breg / A.M. Luncz

Vienna / Jerusalem

1882, 1887, 1889

First three volumes of the Yearbook: 1882 (Hebrew only), 1887 and 1889 (Hebrew and German), bound in single volume. Separate titles Hebrew and German

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Abraham Moses Luncz (1854-1918) was born in Kovno and studied in Jerusalem’s Etz Chaim Yeshivah under the tutelage of R. Moses Nehemiah Kahanow. Though he favored secular studies and use of Hebrew as a spoken tongue, Luncz also sought to defend the sentiments of the Old Yishuv. The first volume (1882) of Luncz's ambitious Yearbook project is probably the most thorough. See G. Kressel, Nethivoth Zion vi-Yerushalayim: Selected Essays of Abraham Moses Luncz (Jerusalem, 1970); EJ, Vol. XI, cols. 564-5