Abraham Harkavy Yakovlevich

Born in 1835, Mr.. Educated in the Vilna Rabbinical College and the eastern department of St. Petersburg University. In 1868, Mr.. for his thesis "Legends of the Muslim Slavs and Russian (St. Petersburg, 1870) received a master's degree History of the East, in 1872. - PhD for a thesis: "The original habitat of the Semites, Indo-European and Hamitic" (St. Petersburg, 1872). Consists librarian Imp. Public Library. Total number of papers published the results of his study collection Semitic manuscripts and made (unpublished yet) a complete description of them. Collected valuable material on the history of Jews in Poland and Lithuania, the handwritten data is processed about Khazars ( "Tales from the Jewish writers of the Khazars, 1874 and others) and illuminated with new points of view of history karaimstva (Essays on the history of karaimstva, 1897 - 1902). Harkavy has undertaken publication of a series of monuments of medieval Jewish literature, . under the title: "Studien und Mitteilungen aus der St.-Petersburger Kaiserlichen Bibliothek", . as well as two collections of historical and literary-historical material ( "Chadaschim gam I'schonim", . Issue 20, . 1886 - 1907; "M'asef n'dochim", . Issue 16, . 1878 - 80),
. Proceedings Garkavi deal more historical geography of southern Russia, the Jewish ethnography, paleography, epigraphy ( "Altjudische Denkmaler aus der Krim", 1876 and others) and Philology. A complete list, embracing nearly 400 titles, placed in a Festschrift published to celebrate its 70 th anniversary. Harkavy has worked in 82-volume "Encyclopedic Dictionary" Brockhaus-Efron, was co-editor of "Jewish Encyclopedia".