Hershon, Paul Isaac

Nonconformist; b. of Jewish parents, at Buczacz (pronounced boo church), Galicia, Austrian Poland, in May (8th day of the Jewish month Iyyar), 1818; studied at the then Hebrew College in Jerusalem, under the auspices of the " London Society for promoting Christianity amongst the Jews," 1842-46 was superintendent of the society's house of industry in that city, 1847; resigned, was reinstated 1848 after visit to England, retained position till 1855, resigned again; became the society's mi ionary to the Jews at Manchester, Eng.; was Jaffa, started by a committee of Hebrew Christians; resigned through ill health, and returned to England, 1859. He has published Extracts from the Talmud, Being Specimens of Wit, Wisdom, Learning, etc., of the Wise and Learned Rabbis, London, 1860; Pent a teuch according to the Talmud, Genesis, 1874 (Hebrew; in English, 1883); an improved edition of the New Testament, in Judseo- Polish, published by the British and Foreign Bible Society, 1874; A Talmudic Miscellany, 1880; Treasures of the Talmud, 1882; A Rabbinical Commentary on Genesis, 1885; and has in manuscript Exodus according to the Talmud; Key to the Babylonian Talmud (references to 1,400 cla ified subjects); Modern Orthodox Judaism, and what it teaches about God, Man, and the World to come, etc.