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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. The Book Is Clean Inside With No Remarks Or Highlights. 191 Pages With The Index. Hardcover.We will state signed at the description section. we confirm they are signed via email or stated in the description box. - Specializing in academic, collectiblle and historically significant, providing the utmost quality and customer service satisfaction. For any questions feel free to email us.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 3rd Edition. In Yiddish and Arabic in Yiddish transliteration. 31 pages. 23 x 16 cm. Paper wrappers bound in hard cover. This work was intended for the Jewish Legionnaires in Eretz IsraeL. George (Getzel) Selikovitsch; (May 23, 1855 Lithuania - November 27, 1926 U.S.A.) was an Egyptologist, translator into Arabic, author of romantic novels in Yiddish, and writer and editor of the Yiddish press in the United States. He was born in the town of Rietavas in the Kaunas region of the Russian Empire, in the Moshav area (Lithuanian region). About 200 Jewish families lived in the town at that time. His mother ran a leather shop and supported the family, while his father was a Perushi, a disciple of the Vilna Gaon, who left for Eretz Israel, as did many of the Prushim. Selikovitsch studied at various Yeshivot, and acquired a secular education from his mother, who taught him the alphabet in German and Russian and from his reading in Yiddish. He continued his education himself with the help of books and dictionaries he found. From 1875 to 1878, he lived in Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco, where he worked as a secretary for a mining company and as a clerk in a law firm. He learned Arabic and also spoken Hebrew, with the Sephardic pronunciation. In 1878 he moved to Paris, was a Hebrew teacher for the children of Michael Erlanger, a rabbi and educator who was one of the dominant figures in the Paris community and Baron Rothschild's emissary to the colonies in Israel. Zelikowicz attended classes in Jewish studies taught by Prof. Joseph Darenburg and studied ancient Semitic languages and Egyptology at the Sorbonne. After graduating he worked as a librarian in the Oriental Department of the National Library in Paris, and may also have taught the hieroglyphics at the University. In 1879, Zelikowicz began sending articles to the Hebrew newspaper Ha-Maggid. His initial essays are short scholarly ones dealing with difficult words or phrases in the ancient sources. He published articles in haMaggid and also articles in French in the French Jewish monthly L'Israelite Univers, in which he expressed his views against the Reform Jews and praised the contribution of medieval Jewish sages to the development of the Hebrew language. In the journal of the French Oriental Society L'Athenee Oriental, Zelikowicz published two articles on scientific topics, one dealing with the concept of the underworld among the Hebrews and the other with the concept of time among the ancient Egyptians. In 1879, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda met Zelikowicz in Paris. According to Ben-Yehuda, his conversations with Zalkowitz, who spoke Hebrew with the Sephardic pronunciation, led him to the recognition that Hebrew could be a modern spoken language. In his article "The Dream and its Break", Ben-Yehuda writes that when met Zelikowicz it was the first time he heard Hebrew spoken in a simple, natural manner with a Sephardic pronunciation, while Ben Yehuda, was speaking in the manner of Amnon and Tamar. It led Ben Yehuda to the idea of resurrecting spoken Hebrew. In the early 1880s, a rebellion broke out in Sudan, which was under Egyptian rule and European powers' influence, especially Britain's. Muhammad Ahmad ibn Sayyid Abdullah, who proclaimed himself "Mahdi" (Arabic: "the Redeemer"), succeeded in uniting the tribes in Sudan with Islamic fanaticism, and in 1884 ruled almost all provinces of the country. The British Empire sent General Charles Gordon, who had previously served in Sudan, to withdraw the Egyptian troops who had been under rebel attacks in Khartoum. Gordon reached Sudan, realized he could not retreat. . . Zelikowicz was the Arabic interpreter for the British delegation that set out to rescue General Gordon. . . .