Homberg, Herz

Homberg, Herz a Jewnish writer and teacher, who died at Prague, August 24, 1841, is the author of, באור לס דברים, a commentary on Deuteronomy, prepared for and printed in Mendelssohn's Pentateuch (Berlin, 1783, and often):הכור, glosses on the Pentateuch, also printed in Mendelssohn's work: — Ueber die moralische und politische Verbesserung der Israeliten in Bodhmen (1796): — בןאּציון, catechism for Israelites (Augsburg, 1812):אמרי שפר, or ethics according to the Mosaic law and the Talmud (Vienna 1802, 2 parts): — בן יקיּר, or Ueber Glaubenswahrheiten unzd Sittenlehren fur die israelitische Jugend (1814, and often). See Furst, Bibl. Jud. 1:406. (B.P.)