Israël Lévi (1856-1939), scholar
Israël Lévi (1856-1939) was a Jewish-French scholar.
Biography
Wrote on Bible, Apocrypha, Rabbinic literature, and the history of Jews in France. Editor of Revue des Etudes juives. Chief rabbi of France (1920-1939).
Works on Second Temple Judaism
Books
- L'Ecclésiastique, ou, La sagesse de Jésus, fils de Sira (2 vols.; Paris 1898-1901)
- The Hebrew Text of the Book of Ecclesiasticus (Leiden 1904)
- Le péché originel dans les anciennes sources juives (Paris 1906; 2n ed. 1909)