Fischer, Bernard
FISCHER, BERNARD
FISCHER, BERNARD (b. 1821), Austrian rabbi and author. Fischer was born in the village of Budikau, in Bohemia. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Prague in 1850. Fischer served as the rabbi of various small congregations in the district of Eger. He prepared new editions of Buxtorf's rabbinic lexicon (1873) and Wiener's Chaldaic grammar (1882). He also edited Bikkurei Ha-Ittim, an illustrated Hebrew monthly, in Leipzig in 1863.
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