Education
He was educated at the Jewish Theological Seminary and the University in Breslau.
He was educated at the Jewish Theological Seminary and the University in Breslau.
In 1874 he was appointed docent at the Lehranstalt für die Wissenschaft des Judenthums in Berlin, and in 1883, on the death of David Joël, he was called to the seminary at Breslau. Lewy"s knowledge of Talmudic literature was unusually wide. He was endowed also with an exceptionally acute and dispassionate critical spirit and with a faculty for grasping the proper importance of details.
Ein Wort über die Mechilta des R. Simon (Breslau, 1889) was likewise an authoritative work in the field of halakhic exegesis.
Lewy also published Interpretation des Ersten, Zweiten und Dritten Abschnitts des Palästinischen Talmud-Traktates Nesikin (ib 1895-1902), and Ein Vortrag über das Ritual des Pesach-Abends (ib 1904).