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Words of the wise; an anthology of proverbs and practical axioms drawn from Hebrew throughout the ages, rendered into English together with the originals and arranged alphabetically by subjects. Compiled by Reuven Alcalay in collaboration with Mordekhai Nurock.

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Jerusalem, Massada [1970]

1970

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A basic encyclopedia of Jewish proverbs, quotations, and folk wisdom : presented in English with Hebrew originals and arranged alphabetically by subject / compiled by Reuben Alcalay, in collaboration with Mordekhai Nurock.

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New York : Hartmore House, [1973]

1973

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Notes historiques et littéraires sur la poésie gnomique juive [microform] : depuis la clôture du canon hébreu jusqu'au XVIe siècle / par Ant.-J. Baumgartner.

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Genève : Impr. J.-G. Fick, 1886.

1886

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Proverbs and people : a Midrash on the Hebrew alphabet : woodcuts / by Nikos Stavroulakis ; block prints by Gordon M. Freeman.

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Berkeley, Calif. : Judah L. Magnes Memorial Museum, The Jewish Museum of the West, c1972.

1972

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En shalem mi-lev shavur : imrot ha-Rabi mi-Ḳotsḳ / [ha-melaḳeṭ] Shaʼul Maizlish.

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T.A. [z.o. Tel Aviv] : Modan, [1988]

1988

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Kokhav ha-shahạr : imrot Rabi Menahẹm Mendel mi-Kọtsk ̣/ [ha-ʻorekh] Śimhạh Raz.

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[Israel] : Tefutsah, c1988.

1988

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Amarot u-fitgamim shel Yehude Sefarad / Aryeh Alḳalaʻi ; ʻarakh ṿe-hitḳin Daṿid Benvenishti.

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Yerushalayim : Ṿaʻad ʻadat ha-Sefaradim bi-Yerushalayim ṿeha-Merkaz le-shiluv ha-moreshet shel Yahadut Sefarad ṿeha-Mizraḥ be-Miśrad ha-ḥinukh ṿeha-tarbut, 1984.

1984

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Milim ʻIvriyot bi-Sefaradit-Yehudit : (be-dibur, bi-khetav, be-imrah uve-fitgam) / Daṿid Benvenishti.

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Yerushalayim : Moreshet, 1984.

1984

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Peninim mi-yam sifrutenu ha-ʻatiḳah : ʻerkhe musar ha-Yahadut, orḥot ḥayim, midot ṿe-nimusim, moreshet-avot / liḳeṭ Yitsḥaḳ Amir.

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Yerushalayim : ha-Berit ha-ʻIvrit ha-ʻolamit, 1976.

1976

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Sof ṭov--ha-kol ṭov : ḳovets pitgamim : ʻIvrit, Yidish, Rusit.

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Yerushalayim : Tarbut : ha-Universiṭah ha-ʻIvrit bi-Yerushalayim, ha-Ḥug le-limudim Rusiyim u-Slaṿiyim, 1990.

1990

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Beśamim mi-Sefarad : me-otsar ḥokhmat Yahadut Sefarad / Mosheh Daṿid Gaʼon ; orekh, Yehoram Gaʼon.

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Yerushalayim : Keter, c1989.

1989

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Otsar ha-pitgamim shel Yehude Maroḳo : be-tseruf hashṿaʼot u-maḳbilot mi-meḳorot Yehudiyim ṿa-aḥerim / Ḥananyah Dahan.

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Tel-Aviv : Setaṿit, [c1983- ]

1983-present

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Atah, mah she-atah ḥoshev ʻal ʻatsmekha.

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Beʼer-Shevaʻ : ʻAzriʼel Nitsani, 750 [1989 or 1990]

1989

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ʻAmud ha-emet : kolel torotaṿ, imrotaṿ, śiḥotaṿ, toldotaṿ ṿe-sipure-maʻaśh shel Menaḥem Mendel mi-Ḳotsḳ.

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Tel Aviv : "ha-Mefitsim", [1981?]

1981

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Derekh u-miḳdash : amarot / Gilah Guri.

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[Tel Aviv] : ha-Ḳibuts ha-meʼuḥad, c1976

1976-1987

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Mivḥar pitgamim ṿa-amarot : meluḳaṭ me-divre ḥazal ume-rabotenu ha-rishonim.

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Tel-Aviv : Nitsanim, 752 [1991 or 1992]

1991

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Entsiḳlopedyah "Kanfe-Zohar" le-imrot kanaf : otsar he-hagut ṿeha-ḥokhmah / me-et Zohar Harari ; ʻarikhah ṿe-tsiyurim, Yosef Ṭrotsḳi.

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Ramat-Gan : Hotsaʼat "Ḳodḳod", 1980.

1980

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Le-hithalekh ʻal behonot.

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T.A. [z.o. Tel Aviv] : Yaron Golan, [1992]

1992

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Mivzaḳim : tseror pitgamim ṿe-amarot.

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Yerushalayim : Zemirot, 1992.

1992

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Yalḳuṭ meshalim mi-perozdor li-ṭeraḳlin : pirḳe emunah u-maḥashavah, meyusadim ʻal divre ḥakhamenu zal ...

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Yerushalayim : [ḥ.mo.l.], 752 [1992]

1992

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The joys of Hebrew / Lewis Glinert.

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New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.

1992

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Nitsotsot : imrot ketsarot, pitgamim ḳolʻim ṿe-hadrakhot shonot ʻim teʼurim ha-leḳuḥim me-haṿai ḥayenu be-ruʼaḥ ha-ḥasidut ṿeha-musar.

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Yerushalyim : [ḥ. mo. l.], 752 [1992]

1992

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Mishle ʻArav : asufat mivḥar mishle bene ḳedem / asher agar mi-sefarim umi-piyot ha-ʻam ṿe-tirgem u-veʼer Yitsḥaḳ ḥ.R. Binyamin ḥ.R. Shelomoh Yeḥezḳel Yehudah.

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Yerushala[yi]m : Ḥanah Braʼun, 5750 [1989 or 1990]

1989-1932

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Otsar ha-meshalim ṿeha-pitgamim ha-Temaniyim.

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Netanyah : ha-Agudah le-ṭipuaḥ ḥevrah ṿe-tarbut, teʻud u-meḥḳar, Hantsaḥat moreshet Yahadut Teman ṿe-shivṭe Yiśraʼel, [1993]

1993

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Amarot u-fitgamim mi-meḳorot Yiśraʼel.

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R.G. [z.o. Ramat Gan] : Alumot, [1994?]

1994

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Mikhtam le-ʻAgnon : asupat pitgamim mi-tokh ketavaṿ : masah ʻal ha-kelev Balaḳ.

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Tel Aviv : Yediʻot aḥaronot : Sifre ḥemed, c1994.

1994

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Penine Sefarad : alpayim pitgamim me-otsar ha-ḥokhmah shel Yehude Sefarad / isuf ṿe-sidur, Yitsḥaḳ Mosḳonah ; [ʻarikhah ṿe-nosaḥ ʻIvri, Mosheh-Giyora Elimelikh ; yoʻets omanuti, Aryeh Ben-Natan]

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Tel-Aviv : Sifriyat maʻariv, c1981.

1981

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Peninim mi-yam sifrutenu ha-ʻatiḳah : ʻerkhe musar ha-Yahadut, orḥot ḥayim, midot ṿe-nimusim, moreshet avot / liḳeṭ Yitsḥaḳ Amir ; tirgum Rusi u-veʼurim me-et Avraham Belov (Elinson) ṿe-Yitsḥaḳ Amir.

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Yerushalayim : [Naḥalah], 1985.

1985

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Al naharot Bavel : otsar ha-pitgamim shel Yehude Bavel : pitgamim, folḳlor, minhagim, emunot ṿe-sipurim me-haṿai Yahadut Bavel ... / Yehoshuʻa Meʼiri.

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Yerushalayim : R. Mas, 1996.

1996

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Treasury of Jewish love : poems, quotations & proverbs in Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino and English / edited and transliterated by David C. Gross.

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New York : Hippocrene Books, c1995.

1995

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Meʼah amarot-ʻam / Yosef Noiman.

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Tel-Aviv : Ḥug yedide Yiṿo be-Erets-Yiśraʼel, 708 [1947 or 1948]

1948

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Osem bosem : ...ḥokhmah u-musar haśkel : ...ṿe-nispeḥu elaṿ...mile-di-vediḥuta ṿe-śiḥot ḥulin, sheʼelot u-teshuvot...

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[Yerushalayim?] : [ḥ. mo. l.], 728 [1967 or 1968]

1967

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Kaftur ve-peraḥ : amrot, pitgamim, maṭbeʻot-lashon / meʼet ḥazal (ḥalhamenu, zikhronam-livrakhah) ; liḳṭah ve-gezerah, Arʼalah.

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[Tel-Aviv] : Hotsʼat ha-ḳibuts ha-meʼuḥad,736 [1976]

1976

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Mivḥar ha-peninim / le-Yedaʻyah ha-Penini ; ṿe-ʻalaṿ ḥonim ha-perushim ... Perush maspiḳ, Rav peninim, Hagahot ha-Yaʻvets ...

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Yerushalyim : Ḥ. Ṿagshal, 755 [1994 or 1995]

1994

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Gaspari Scioppi Mercurius quadrilinguis : id est, linguarum Hebraeae, Graecae, Latinae, & Italicae, nova & compendiaria ...

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Patavii : Ex officina Sangeoreana, 1637.

1637

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Mishle Ari.

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Tel-Aviv, 1969.

1969

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Dictionary of 1000 Jewish proverbs / edited by David C. Gross.

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New York : Hippocrene Books, c1997.

1997

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Mishle ḥakhamim [microform] : maʼamre ḥokhmah u-musar, meshalim u-melitsot, meluḳaṭim mi-sifre ha-Talmud ṿeha-midrashim ... / me-et M. Goldman.

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Nyu Yorḳ : [Goldman & Steinberg], 1916.

1916

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Mishle ḥakhamim [microform] : maʼamre ḥokhmah u-musar, meshalim u-melitsot, meluḳaṭim mi-sifre ha-Talmud ṿeha-midrashim ... / me-et M. Goldman.

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Nyu Yorḳ : [Goldman & Steinberg], 1916.

1916

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Peninim mi-bet ima = Perl fun mayn Mame's shtub : imrot meḥankhot u-fitgamim maḳhkimim la-bayit ha-Yehudi / neʼesfu mi-ginze moreshet ... ʻal yede Raḥel Rozmarin, Rahel (Le-vet Senḳevits).

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Yerushalayim : Feldhaim, 1997.

1997

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Israels Spruchweisheit im zusammenhang der Weltliteratur. von Hugo Gressmann.

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Berlin, K. Curtius, 1925.

1925

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Dictionary of parallel proverbs, in English, German and Hebrew.

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[Tel Aviv] Machbarot lesifrut [5721 -- 1960]

1960

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Parallel proverbs : in English, German and Hebrew.

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Tel Aviv : Dvir Pub. Co., [1954]

1954

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Rabbinische blumenlese, enthaltend: eine sammlung, übersetzung und erläuterung der hebräischen und chaldäischen sprüche des Sirach, talmudischer sprichwörter, sentenzen und maximen, nebst einem anhange, leichenreden und einem glossar. Von Leopold Dukes.

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Leipzig, Hahn, 1844.

1844

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Rabbinische Anthologie, oder Sammlung von Erzählungen, Sprichwörtern, Weisheitsregeln, Lehren und Meinungen der alten Hebräer / R.J. Fürstenthal.

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Breslau : M. Friedländer, 1834.

1834

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Gnomic literature in Bible and Apocrypha : with special reference to the Gnomic fragments and their bearing on the proverb collections / by Gerson B. Levi.

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Chicago : [s.n.], 1917.

1917

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