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Lot #    11885
Auction End Date    9/20/2005 12:45:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Sechs Vortraege ueber die Geschichte der Juden
Author    [Only Ed.] Gustav Karpeles
City    Berlin
Publisher    Ulbert Friedlander
Publication Date    1896
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. 64 pp., 220:140 mm., wide margins, usual light age staining. A very good copy bound in the original cloth boards, rubbed.
          
Detailed
Description		    Gustav Karpeles (Gershon; 1848–1909), literary historian. Karpeles, who was born in Einwanowitz, Moravia, devoted himself to literary research in German and Jewish literature. One of his first studies was a biographical sketch, published anonymously, of Azriel Hildesheimer (1870). In 1870 he became editor of the weekly Juedische Presse, founded by the latter, and at the same time of the German literary journal Auf der Hoehe. Karpeles edited the literary supplement of the Breslauer Zeitung and from 1878 to 1883 the influential Westermanns Monatshefte. In 1890 he became editor of the Allgemeine Zeitung des Judentums, and in 1898 editor of the Jahrbuch fuer juedische Geschichte und Literatur. This publication was a sequel to the founding of the Berlin Verein fuer juedische Geschichte und Literatur, by Karpeles, in association with others, an example soon followed by many other communities in Germany. These were eventually united, under his leadership, into the Verband der Vereine fuer juedische Geschichte und Literatur (1893). Karpeles published five books on Heine, and four editions of his work. His writings include: Goethe in Polen (1890); Allgemeine Geschichte der Literatur... (2 vols., 1891); and Litterarisches Wanderbuch (1898). His most important contribution to Jewish scholarship was the two-volume Geschichte der juedischen Literatur (1886, 1920–213; partial tr. History of Jewish Literature, n.d.). Smaller works in this field are his Die Frauen der juedischen Literatur (1871); Zionsharfe, a German anthology of medieval Hebrew poetry (1889); Sechs Vortraege ueber die Geschichte der Juden (1896; A Sketch of Jewish History, 1897). Also in English appeared Jews and Judaism in the 19th Century (1905).
          
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19th Century:    Checked
  
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Language:    German
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica