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'''Max Seligsohn''' (April 13, 1865
Having received his [[rabbi]]nical training at [[Slutsk]], government (''[[guberniya]]'') of [[Minsk]], he went in 1888 to [[New York]], where he studied modern languages till 1894, in which year he went to [[Paris]] to study [[Oriental languages]], especially [[Semitic studies]] ("''[[élève diplômé]]''" of the ''[[Ecole des Langues Orientales]]'', 1897, and of the ''[[Ecole des Hautes Etudes]]'', 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]].
== Literary works ==
* "''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
==See also==
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== References ==
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