WOMEN BIBLIOPHILES & COLLECTORS: Les Langues mortes et les Langues vivantes dans l’enseignement secondaire

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WOMEN BIBLIOPHILES & COLLECTORS: Les Langues mortes et les Langues vivantes dans l’enseignement secondaire

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[Dead and Living Languages in Secondary Education]

 

A handsome example of a pamphlet on the subject, if dead languages should still be thought at secondary schools, written by Jewish educator Benjamin Levy.
From the library of Ernesta Stern with a dedication by the author.

 

8°, 48 pp. with dedication by the author to Ernesta Stein on the first page, contemporary red morrocoy binding with gold initials EES in the upper right corner of the front board, gold enbossed title on the spine, raised bands, gilt linear turn-ins, contemporary marbled paper endpapers, gilt edges (binding slightly age-toned on the corners, otherwise in a good condition).

 

 

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The author Benjamin Levy was an educator of Jewish origins, born on the territory of today’s Germany.

He married Euénie Bamberger from a wealthy Jewish family of bankers from Mainz. Her brothers were Rudolph Bamberger (1821 – 1900) and Ludwig Bamberger (1823 – 1899), one of the founders of the Deutsche Bank.

Levy authored several works on languages and literature in French language, mostly connected with German history.

The pamphlet was probably privately commissioned and is today rare. We could only find five examples in the libraries, listed on Worldcat (Kungliga biblioteket, Wissenschaftliche Stadtbibliothek – Mainz, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Bibliothèque interuniversitaire de la Sorbonne, The British Library).

References: OCLC 457357095, 562321484, 186857277. Cf.: Isabelle Havelange, Françoise Huguet, Bernadette Lebedeff, LÉVY Benjamin [note biographique] Publications de l’Institut national de recherche pédagogique. Les inspecteurs généraux de l’Instruction publique. Dictionnaire biographique 1802-1914,1986, 11, pp. 472-473.

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