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Lot #    11539
Auction End Date    8/16/2005 2:16:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Predigten
Author    [Only Ed.] Dr. Benjamin Rippner
City    Magdeburg
Publisher    Walther Niemann
Publication Date    1894
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. [4], 190 pp., 204:125 mm., sharp margins, usual age staining, stamps. A crisp unread copy bound in the original title pastedown boards.
          
Detailed
Description		    Twenty homilies by Dr. Benjamin Rippner, chief rabbi of Glogau (1872-99). Glogau, town in Prussian Silesia, Germany, with a population of 20,529, including 863 Jews at the turn of the last century. Jews were living there as early as the eleventh century, their quarters being near the Breslauer Thor, in the vicinity of the present Evangelical cemetery. Although they were generally well treated by the Austrian government, they were still subjected to occasional attacks. In 1442 the Jews' street was plundered and the synagogue destroyed. In 1485 Duke Hans expelled them, and they were obliged to worship in secret, even outside the city limits. One hundred years later a new congregation was formed by virtue of the privileges granted to the Jewish family of Benedict. The Jews lived near the present castle. All legal cases were decided in their own court, consisting of the rabbis and the elders. In 1636 a new synagogue was built by the Benedict family, in which the community worshiped for 260 years. At that time it numbered 1,500 persons. When Silesia came into the possession of Prussia, the Jews were soon granted political equality, especially by the Stein-Hardenberg laws. Another synagogue was built in 1892, at a cost of 300,000 marks. Among the eminent Jews of Glogau may be mentioned: Solomon Munk, Eduard Munk, Joseph Zedner, and Michael Sachs.
          
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Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Germany:    Checked
  
Subject
Homiletics:    Checked
  
Characteristic
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Language:    German
  
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