REQUEST - Etymological Dictionary Of Hebrew by Ernest Klein

Nathan

For more information see this post:

Why is everyone making such a big deal about Catena Aurea? (Or "what's in it for me?")

Would make a great addition to my library!

Ted Hans

Eric Weiss


Replied: Fri, Apr 16 2010 7:53 PM

$14. And I bid $34.

Yet I'm getting it for $14.

THANK YOU for shouting about Community Pricing. What a great concept! It's a win-win for everyone.

Here's a book suggestion I made a long time ago, that really, really
deserves to be in Logos, esp. since it's out of print and hard to obtain
at a good price:

http://www.amazon.com/Comprehensive-Etymological-Dictionary-Language-Readers/dp/0029174317/

A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language for Readers of English by Ernest Klein

I bought a new copy at Half-Price Books many years ago (and should have grabbed the second copy - they were only $19.98 each).

About the author from the back cover of book:

Ernest David Klein (1899-1983) was born in Szatmar in the eastern
part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Romania). In 1925 he earned the
title of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Vienna. His
specialized fields were Semitic languages and literature, Romance
languages and literature, and Philosophy. In 1931 he became Rabbi of
Nove Zamke in the former Czechoslovakia. Here he remained until deported
by the *** in World War II, first to Auschwitz and later to the
concentration camp Allach-Dachau. He was liberated by American Troops in
1945. His father, wife, only son and two of his three sisters had
perished in the extermination camps. After the Holocaust he returned to
his birthplace, but shortly afterwards he went to Paris, and finally
moved to Canada in 1951. Here he was able to devote himself to the
projects he had started earlier in Europe.

For the next 20 years Dr. Klein devoted himself to the study of the
history of the English language. Since English has roots in some forty
spoken and extinct languages, and Klein had mastered these languages, he
was uniquely qualified to compile his comprehensive etymological
dictionary of the English language, which was the most exhaustive of its
kind at the time. The next ten years of his life he devoted to: A
Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language for Readers
of English.

Rabbi Dr. Ernest Klein was considered an eminent language scholar and lexicographer.

Additional
Info from preface: The book was written by Rabbi Dr. Ernest Klein. The
10 year writing and then publishing were sponsored collectively by
Arthur and Beatrice Minden. Manuscript was edited and published at the
University of Haifa. The editors were Professor Aharon Dolgopolsky, Dov
Benhorin, and finally the prominent editor and translator Baruch Sarel
(who added over 2500 additional entries to the work). Foreword by
eminent philologist Professor Haim Rabin of the Hebrew University and
the Hebrew Language Academy.

Dr. Ernest Klein has been granted
the "Order of Canada" award for one of his previous works, and two
honorary doctorates from Canadian Universities.