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Bidding Information
Lot #    12299
Auction End Date    11/1/2005 12:58:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Joseph Albo's Bedeutung in der Geschichte
Author    [Only Ed.] Dr. Samuel Back
City    Breslau
Publisher    Bruno Heidenfeld
Publication Date    1869
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. [2], 35, [1] pp., 194:126 mm., wide margins, usual light age staining, stamps. A very good copy bound in contemporary boards, rubbed.
          
Detailed
Description		    Samuel Back (1841–1899), rabbi and scholar. Back, who was born in Galgocz (Hlohovec, Czechoslovakia), served as rabbi in Prague-Smichov from 1872. He wrote on philosophical, historical, and talmudical subjects. His published works include: Josef Albos Bedeutung in der Geschichte der juedischen Religionsphilosophie (1869); Das Synhedrion unter Napoleon I (1879); R. Meir ben Baruch aus Rothenburg (1895); Entstehungsgeschichte der portugiesischen Gemeinde in Amsterdam und Rabbi Menasse ben Israel (1883); Elischa ben Abuja-Acher (1891); and "Die Fabel in Talmud und Midrash" (in MGWJ, vols. 25, 29, 30, 33). Back also published sermons and eulogies as well as articles in learned periodicals.
          
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Germany:    Checked
  
Subject
Other:    Philosophy
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    German
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica