Jules Piccus – A Personal Remembrance of one of the Founding Fathers of Judaic Studies

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Jules Piccus – A Personal Remembrance of one of the Founding Fathers of Judaic Studies

Robert A. Rothstein

This chapter is part of: Leonard H. Ehrlich et al. 2004. Textures and Meanings: Thirty Years of Judaic Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst

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By both vocation and avocation Jules Piccus was a philologist, a scholar of old texts, a lover of languages – from the Yiddish that he spoke with his parents to the Hebrew that he learned as a boy to the Spanish that was at the center of his life's work to the French, German, Greek, Arabic and Turkish that were his tools in trade to the Japanese that he took up in retirement – and a lover of words. Let me therefore offer some brief commentary on a few words that describe him: friend, colleague, neighbor.

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By both vocation and avocation Jules Piccus was a philologist, a scholar of old texts, a lover of languages – from the Yiddish that he spoke with his parents to the Hebrew that he learned as a boy to the Spanish that was at the center of his life's work to the French, German, Greek, Arabic and Turkish that were his tools in trade to the Japanese that he took up in retirement – and a lover of words. Let me therefore offer some brief commentary on a few words that describe him: friend, colleague, neighbor.

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Aug. 1, 2004	University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Rothstein R. 2004. Jules Piccus – A Personal Remembrance of one of the Founding Fathers of Judaic Studies. In Leonard H. Ehrlich et al. 2004. Textures and Meanings: Thirty Years of Judaic Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst