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Lot #    12854
Auction End Date    12/20/2005 2:11:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Das jüdisch-theologischen Seminars
Title (Hebrew)    Fraenchel'scher Stiftung zu Breslau
Author    [Only Ed. - Community]
City    Breslau
Publisher    Grass, Barth und Comp.
Publication Date    1879
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition, [1], 75, [1] pp., 222:155 mm., wide margins, light age staining, stamps. A very good copy bound in contemporary half cloth and marbled paper boards.
          
Detailed
Description		    The Juedisch-Theologisches Seminar, Breslau, was the first modern rabbinical seminary in Central Europe. Founded in 1854 with the funds which Jonas Fraenkel, a prominent Breslau businessman, had willed for the purpose, the seminary became the model for similar colleges set up in Europe and the U.S. Its first head was Z. Frankel. The seminary also trained teachers until 1887 and this training was resumed in the 1920s and 1930s. However, the seminary's basic aim was to teach "positive historical Judaism." The "positive" stood for a faithful adherence to the practical precepts of Judaism, while "historical" permitted free inquiry into the Jewish past, including even Bible criticism, though with some self-imposed limitations. Thus the Breslau seminary, under Fraenkel's guidance, took a middle position between dogmatic Orthodoxy, as represented by R. S. R. Hirsch and R. A. Hildesheimer's Rabbinical Seminary, and Geiger's Lehranstalt (Hochschule) fuer die Wissenschaft des Judentums, officially an academic institution without ideology, but in fact largely a training college for Reform rabbis. Many of its graduates became rabbis in Liberal or Reform congregations, some in Orthodox ones.
          
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Description		    EJ; JE
        
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Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Germany:    Checked
  
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Language:    German
  
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Kind of Judaica