Homberg, Herz
Homberg, Herz
a Jewnish writer and teacher, who died at Prague, August 24, 1841, is the author of, , a commentary on Deuteronomy, prepared for and printed in Mendelssohn’s Pentateuch (Berlin, 1783, and often):, glosses on the Pentateuch, also printed in Mendelssohn’s work: Ueber die moralische und politische Verbesserung der Israeliten in Bodhmen (1796): , catechism for Israelites (Augsburg, 1812): , or ethics according to the Mosaic law and the Talmud (Vienna 1802, 2 parts): , or Ueber Glaubenswahrheiten unzd Sittenlehren fur die israelitische Jugend (1814, and often). See Furst, Bibl. Jud. 1:406. (B.P.)