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Bidding Information
Lot #    13274
Auction End Date    1/24/2006 1:11:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Zur Erinnerung an den referendar David Schlesinger
Title (Hebrew)    gefallen im kampfe fur das vaterland
Author    [Only Ed.] R. Leo Munk
City    Frankfort am Main
Publisher    J. Kauffmann
Publication Date    1914
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. 11 pp., 191:116 mm., wide margins, light age staining, stamps. A very good copy bound in contemporary half cloth and marbled paper boards.
          
Detailed
Description		    Eulogy for a fallen German-Jewish soldier in WWI by R. Leo Munk (1851–1917), an Orthodox rabbi in Germany, was the son of Elias Munk, dayyan at Altona. He studied at the Berlin Rabbinical Seminary under his uncle Azriel (Israel) Hildesheimer and at the Universities of Berlin and Koenigsberg. He was district rabbi at Marburg (Hesse) from 1876. He took an active part in the work of the Deutsch-Israelitischer Gemeindebund, the Hilfsverein der deutschen Juden, and the rabbinical associations, both general and Orthodox. Among his publications was a scholarly edition of Targum Sheni on Esther (1876).
          
Reference
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Germany:    Checked
  
Subject
Homiletics:    Checked
Other:    Eulogies
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    German, some Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica