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English: The title page of A Grammar of the Hebrew Tongue published in 1735 by Judah Monis. The first Hebrew grammar published in America was issued in 1735 specifically for "the ... use of the students at Harvard-College at Cambridge, in New-England," for whom Hebrew was a required subject. The author, Judah Monis, had to convert to Christianity to be appointed to the faculty of Harvard College. One thousand copies were printed, a large edition for an early eighteenth-century American publication.
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