Obj. ID: 38531
  Sacred and Ritual  Passover cloth, Jerusalem, circa 1910

{"2347":"Abraham Moses Lunz or Luncz (1854\u20131918) (Hebrew: \u05d0\u05d1\u05e8\u05d4\u05dd \u05dc\u05d5\u05e0\u05e5) was a scholar, editor, and publisher in Jerusalem. Lunz was born in Kovno, the Russian Empire (today Kaunas, Lithuania), and emigrated to Jerusalem at the age of 14. Lunz owned a Hebrew printing press in the Ezrat Yisrael neighborhood, across the street from his home in Even Yisrael. He issued works by Palestinian scholars, Estori Far\u1e25i's Kaftor wa-Fera\u1e25 and Josef Schwarz's Tebu'ot ha-Are\u1e93 being the first works published. He also published a new edition of the Jerusalem Talmud, guide-books for Palestine, Palestine annuals and his Jerusalem almanac: Netibot \u1e92iyyon we-Yerushalayim: Topography of Jerusalem and Its Surroundings (vol. i, 1876); Jerusalem, Jahrbuch zur Bef\u00f6rderung einer Wissenschaftlich Genauen Kenntnis des Jetzigen und des Alten Pal\u00e4stina (Hebrew and German, 6 vols., 1881\u20131903, Hebrew: \u05d9\u05e8\u05d5\u05e9\u05dc\u05d9\u05dd, \u05e9\u05e0\u05ea\u05d5\u05df \u05dc\u05d9\u05d3\u05d9\u05e2\u05ea \u05d0\u05e8\u05e5 \u05d9\u05e9\u05e8\u05d0\u05dc); Literarischer Pal\u00e4stina-Almanach (Hebrew; since 1894). Lunz suffered from early blindness and founded, in conjunction with Dr. Koisewski, an institution for the blind in Jerusalem."}