Career
He published at Metz in 1845, under the title Dibre Hakamim ("Words of Wise"), a selection of 11 ancient manuscripts: Midrash Wayosha, on the Pentateuch Joseph Caro"s Commentary on Lamentations Maimonides" Hokmat ha-"Ibbur, a treatise on the computation of the intercalary month Abraham bar Hiyyah"s seventh "gate" of the third treatise on the computation of the intercalary month, with a responsum by Hai Gaon on the calculation of the years since the Creation Moses Narboni"s Maamar ba-Behirah, a treatise on free-will Nussah Ketab, a letter from Joshua Lorki on religion Isaac Ardotiel"s Meliẓah "al ha-"Et, a prose poem on the pen David ben Yom-tob"s Yesodot ha-Maskil, 13 articles of belief of an enlightened man RaMBaM, a letter from Maimonides addressed to Rabbi Japhet the Dayyan A letter by Elijah of Italy, written from Palestine to his family at Ferrara, in 1438 Jacob Provençal"s Be-Debar Limmud ha-Hokmah, on the study of science. South. Munk has written an introduction to this collection, which contains also, as an appendix, a French translation of Yesodot ha-Maskil by "H. B." Ashkenazi published also Ta"am Zekenim ("Taste Old Men"), edited by R. Kirchheim, a collection of old manuscripts and prints dealing with Jewish literature and history in the Middle Ages (Frankfort-on-the-Main, 1854).
