
Mayer Lambert (1863–1930), born in Metz, France, was a French Jewish Oriental scholar and Hebraist. Lambert initially studied in Metz before continuing to the rabbinical seminary in Paris where he received his rabbinical degree in 1886. He later studied at the Sorbonne. In 1887, he became professor of Arabic and Syriac at the seminary. In 1894, he also joined the seminary's faculty of Hebrew. During that time, he taught Hebrew at the École Normale Orientale, which was run by the Alliance Israélite Universelle. In 1903, he became professor of Arabic and Syriac at the École des Hautes Études. He was associated with Joseph Derenbourg for many years in Derenbourg's research into Hebrew and oriental literature. Lambert contributed a number of articles to periodicals like the Revue des Etudes Juives and the Journal Asiatique. He also contributed to the publication of the Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum and was involved with a French translation of the Bible that was issued by the French rabbinate. He published, among other articles, Eléments de Grammaire Hébraique in 1890, Commentaire sur le Séfer Yesira, ou livre de la Création par Saadiah in 1891, Saadiah's version of and commentary on Proverbs, text and French translation with Derenbourg Oeuvres complètes de Saadia. Traduction des Proverbes in 1894, and Glossaire hébreu-français du xiiime siècle with L. Brandin in 1905. Three parts of his work Traité de Grammaire Hébraïque were published between 1931 and 1938, Mayer Lambert was the son of the religious textbook author Elie Lambert, his grandfather was Chief Rabbi Lion Mayer Lambert of Metz, and his great-grandfather was Chief Rabbi Aaron of Worms, and through the latter he was a descendant of Gershon Ulif Ashkenazi and the sixteenth-century Worms rabbi and hazzan Elijah Blin.
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Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation), Maurice Liber, Mayer Lambert, Isaïe Schwartz, Consistoire central israélite de France
La Tefila du Soldat is an abridged bilingual Hebrew-French prayerbook for French-Jewish soldiers prepared in 1939 by Rabbi Maurice Liber, the former interim Chief Rabbi of France under Rabbi Israël Lévi (from 1934-1939). In addition to abridged liturgy, the prayerbook also contains a curated selection of teḥinot in vernacular French, and psalms in French translation. Rabbi Isaie Schwartz, appointed chief rabbi in 1939, wrote the introductory letter to Jewish soldiers at the start of the French section of the siddur. In it, he notes the prayerbook is, essential, a copy of one offered to French-Jewish soldiers by the Consistoire central israelíte de France during World War Ⅰ.