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Lot #    13360
Auction End Date    1/24/2006 1:52:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Emunot ve-De'ot
Title (Hebrew)    Einleitung und Kosmologie
Author    [Only Ed.] Dr. Philipp Bloch
City    Munich
Publisher    Theodor Ackermann
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], 101, V pp., 203:120 mm., wide margins, light age staining, stamps. A very good copy bound in later half cloth and marbled paper over boards.
          
Detailed
Description		    Dr. Philipp Bloch (1841–1923), German historian and Reform rabbi. He was born at Tworog (Silesia) and studied in Breslau. After a period as teacher with the Munich Jewish communal school (1869–71), he became rabbi of the Liberal congregation Bruedergemeinde of Posen where he remained active for some fifty years. When that city reverted to Poland after World War I, Bloch retired from the rabbinate and moved to Berlin. He took a leading part in the association of Liberal rabbis and in the work of German Jewish scholarly societies; in 1905 he was a co-founder of the General Archives of German Jews. Bloch's contributions to Jewish scholarship were concerned mainly with the philosophy of religion, aggadah, and Kabbalah; he also wrote about the history of Jews in Poland and the city and province of Posen. Among his works are: a translation of and introduction to the first book of Saadiah's Emunot ve-De'ot (1879); a translation of and commentary on the fifth chapter of Book II of Crescas' Or Adonai concerning free will (1879); essays on the development of Kabbalah and Jewish religious philosophy for Winter-Wuensche's Die juedische Literatur (1894–96); Die Kabbalah auf ihrem Hoehepunkt... (1905); Spuren alter Volksbuecher in der Aggadah (in Festschrift... Hermann Cohen, Judaica, 1912); and Piskoth fuer die drei Trauersabbathe, translation and commentary (in Festschrift... Steinschneider, 1896).
          
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Germany:    Checked
  
Subject
Other:    Philosophy
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    German, some Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica