Israel Lewy

Israel Lewy ( born January 7, 1841 in Inowrazlaw; † September 8, 1917 in Breslau) was a German - Jewish scholar. He attended the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau and the University in Wrocław. In 1874 he was appointed lecturer at the School of Jewish Studies in Berlin, 1883, he returned after the death of David Joel's back to the Breslau Seminary. Lewy had an extensive knowledge of the Talmudic and Mishnaic literature.

In his first publication About Some fragments from the Mishnah of Abba Saul (Berlin, 1876), he showed that the Mishnaic collections of the early teachers, as well as that of Abba Saul match with respect to the period before the final redaction of the Mishnah of the main points of halacha.

A word about the Mechilta of R. Simon (Breslau, 1889 ) was also an authoritative work on halachic exegesis. Among his other publications are the interpretation of the First, Second and Third section of the Palestinian Talmud tractate Nesikin (ib. 1895-1902 ) and A lecture about the ritual of the Passover evening ( 1904).