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Show A Learned Jewess. Eve Cohen Bacharach was born in Prague in the latter part of the Sixteenth century. The mother, who was a "woman of great knowledge," carefully educated the daughter, and together they took great delight in studying rabbinical literature. The most abstruse works written by the learned men among her people were thoroughly appreciated by the youthful pupil. Later in life her explanations of the "festival and penitential peniten-tial prayers" were listened to with rare pleasure. She was, it is recorded, in "Aramaic translations and paraphrases on the Bible quite at home." "No less marked was her proficiency in Hebrew, which she read and wrote with ease and elegance. " |