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yahuda in his youth 1951 university school for social research of madrid , university of berlin , new jerusalem 250px writer , linguist , teacher 1877 abraham jerusalem.jpg shalom yahuda portrait , g. krokorian studio , abraham yahuda
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abraham yahuda

abraham shalom yahuda -lrb- 1877 -- 1951 -rrb- -lrb- -rrb- was a jewish polymath , teacher , writer , researcher , linguist , and collector of rare documents .
he was born in jerusalem to a jewish family originally from baghdad .
during his early life he studied under his brother isaac ezekial yahuda .
in 1895 , at the age of fifteen , he wrote his first book entitled `` arab antiquities '' .
two years later , in 1897 he attended the first zionist congress in basel , switzerland .
afterwards he began teaching in berlin from 1905 to 1914 .
later , during the first world war , he relocated to madrid where he continued teaching from 1915 to 1922 .
eventually yahuda would relocate once again to new york and continue his career at the new school for social research .
during his lifetime yahuda was a notable linguist and writer , translating and interpreting many ancient arabic documents including various works of pre-islamic poetry and medieval judeo-arabic texts .
in 1934 he published `` the accuracy of the bible '' , a work which would spark a significant amount of international discussion .
after his death in 1952 his book `` dr. weizmann 's errors on trial '' was published .
the work is a scathing attack upon zionist policies that yahuda had felt irreparably damaged relations between jews and arabs .
upon his death many of yahuda 's vast collection of rare documents were donated to the jewish national and university library , including about fifteen hundred documents .
much of the donated material was of arabic origin , however , several hundred items were in ancient hebrew as well .
also included were a number of documents from other countries , including a number of illuminated manuscripts and unpublished documents penned by sir isaac newton .
in his 1993 play `` hysteria '' , british playwright terry johnson created a character partly based on yahuda 's attempt to convince sigmund freud not to publish his final book , `` moses and monotheism '' .
