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Moïse Schwab
Moïse Schwab (Paris, 18 September 1839 – 8 February 1918) was a French librarian and author.
Life.
He was educated at the Jewish school and the Talmud Torah at Strasburg. From 1857 to 1866 he was secretary to Salomon Munk; then for a year he was official interpreter at the Paris court of appeals; and from 1868 was librarian at the Bibliothèque Nationale. In 1880 he was sent by the minister of public instruction to Bavaria and Württemberg to make investigations with regard to early Hebrew
writers this practice is still more widely observed, though no honorary title is prefixed. A list is given by Moïse Schwab in his "Repertoire". Most Yiddish writers appear to prefer to write under some pen-name or pseudonym, and their example is at times followed by modern writers of Hebrew, though these, as a rule, prefer to give a name composed of their initials.
Of course, other Jewish writers besides the above have adopted pen-names. I. Zangwill has written under the names "J.