Sepher Talmud Sephath Ivrith - Hebrew Grammar for Arabic Speaking Jews. Prepared by Abraham Kestin.

(EGYPT).

Faraj Haim Mizrahi.

Alexandria

1896

Only edition. Text in Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic. Dedication in English to the Friends of Israel in Scotland. Owner’s marks of Daniel S.H.M. Fraiter.

A Hebrew primer for Arabic-speaking Jewish youth. Chart in beginning of book displays Arabic letters alongside their Hebrew counterpart (following the order of the Arabic alphabet). Includes Biblical portions with Arabic transliterations, such as the Ten Commandments (al-Wasaya al-E’ashr), as well as an alphabetical list of words and their Arabic transliteration. The author, likely a converted Jew, was a teacher of Hebrew in the Mission School of the Church of Scotland in Alexandria; he was also a correspondent for the newspaper “HaMagid.”