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'''Max Seligsohn''' ([[April 13]], [[1865]], [[Russia]] – ) was a{{Short description|Russian-[[Unitedborn States|American]] [[Orientalist]].}}

Having received his [[rabbi]]nical training at [[Slutsk]], government (''[[guberniya]]'') of [[Minsk]], he went in 1888 to [[New York]] City, where he studied modern languages till 1894, in which year he went to [[Paris]] to study [[Oriental languages]], especially [[Semitology|SemiticsSemitic studies]] ("''[[élève diplômé]]''" of the ''[[EcoleÉcole des Langues Orientales]]'', 1897, and of the ''[[EcoleÉcole des Hautes EtudesÉtudes]]'', 1900). In 1898 he was sent by the [[Alliance Israélite Universelle]] to [[Ethiopia|Abyssinia]] to inquire into the conditions of the [[Falasha]]s; but, certain difficulties arising, he was able to proceed no farther than [[Cairo]], where he taught for eighteen months. Returning to Paris, he was invited in 1902 to go to New York to become a member of the staff of office editors of ''The [[Jewish Encyclopedia]]''.

* "''Le Diwan de Ṭarafah ibn al-'Abd''" (Paris, 1900), a translation from the [[Arabic]] into French, with notes and an introduction; a French translation of "''[[Kitab al-Raml]]''," an Arabic work on [[geomancy]], with preface and notes;

* (with [[E. N. Adler]]) "''[[Une Nouvelle Chronique Samaritaine]]''," Paris, 1903

* (as contributor) "''[[Jewish Quarterly Review]]''" and the "''[[Revue des Etudes Juives]]''", mostly on [[Judæo-Persian]] literature.

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