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This is the signature of Jacob (also Jakob) Bernays (1824-1881), a German philologist and Hebrew scholar.

Bernays was one of the first organizers of the Jewish Theological Seminary at Breslau. He was charged with formulating a method of study for…

This is the signature of Rabbi Yitzhak (Isaac, also Ayzik) Berlin (1792 or 93-1865), a rabbi and scholar from Hamburg, Germany. He was born to Rabbi Lase Heilbut of Berlin and Mindell Heilbut. He and his wife, Fanny, had as many as 13…

This is the signature of Heinrich Brody, a Hungarian rabbi and scholar specializing in Hebrew poetry.

He was born in Ungvar, Hungary to Rabbi Solomon Zalman Brody of the famous Brody rabbinical family. His grandfather was Rabbi Solomon Ganzfried,…

This is the signature and purchase inscription of Gabriel Agol, son of Mosheh, in a copy of David de Pomis's Tsemaḥ Daṿid. Sources mention a Jew named Gabriel Agol living in Cuneo in 1607. A teacher and secretary in the Cuneo community named…

This is the signature of Fowler Comings (born 1727 or 1728), an English reverend and author. He was also a fellow of Hertford College of Oxford, where he studied Hebrew. Among his published works was "The Printed Hebrew Text of the Old Testament…

This is the signature of Eliyahu Simha (also Symcha Elia) Etkind (1890-194[2]), a Russian accountant.

He was born in Mogilev, Russia in 1890. In WWI he served in the Russian Tsar’s army and was captured by the Germans. He was in German…

This is the signature of C. W. H. Pauli (1800-1877), a missionary for the London Society for Promoting Christianity Amongst the Jews.

Born Zebi Nasi Hirsch Prinz, Pauli later converted to Christianity and became a minister and a missionary in…

This is the signature of Aldo Servi, an Italian mechanical engineer.

He was born in Pitigliano in 1881 and died in Milan in 1963. He was the son of Salomone Servi, deputy rabbi of Pitigliano, and Debora Lattes. The Servi family was at one point…

This is the signature of Abraham Langleben, a Polish writer and tradesman.

He was born in 1881 in Warsaw, where he studied at Raichman's Beit Midrash. He supplemented his schooling with self-study and learned to speak several European languages.…

Title Description - A look at signage along Gravois road from Downtown St. Louis into the suburbs