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Lot #    14762
Auction End Date    6/13/2006 12:36:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Jüdische Predigten
Title (Hebrew)    äø äîøéä
Author    [Only Ed.] R. Herman Roth
City    Dessau
Publisher    Gebrüder Katz
Publication Date    1858
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. 194 pp., 222:142 mm., wide margins, light age staining, stamps, plate. A very good copy bound in contemporary boards, rubbed.
          
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Description		    A volume of sermons by R. Herman Roth, who was a Rabbi in Ungarisch-Brod. The text is in German, with frequent passages in Hebrew. Ungarisch Brod (in rabbinical literature, Broda), town in S.E. Moravia, Czech Republic. It had an important Jewish community, probably from the 13th century, first mentioned in a municipal document in 1470. There were four Jewish families living in the town in 1558, and 18 in 1615. The Jews there suffered severely during the Thirty Years' War (1618–48). After the expulsion of the Jews from Vienna in 1670 many settled in Uhersky Brod, but the Kuruc (Hungarian rebels) attack (July 14, 1683) brought disaster to the community: most of the Jews were massacred, and the rest left for Hungary (present Slovakia), where they formed new Jewish communities (Trencin, Nove Mesto nad Vahom, Vrbove), which after the rehabilitation of Uhersky Brod remained under its religious jurisdiction for more than 50 years. Among those killed by the Kuruc was Nathan Nata Hannover, author of Yeven MeZulah and Sha'arei Ziyyon, who had escaped the Chmielnicki massacres and settled in Uhersky Brod. An elegy in memory of the Kuruc catastrophe (composed in Judeo-German) was customarily recited in the Uhersky Brod community on the 20th of Tammuz. The community was reconstituted a short time after the disaster and developed rapidly. From the 17th century some noted rabbis served there, including David ben Samuel ha-Levi (the "Taz"), and, in the 19th century, Moses Nascher (1844–54), Moses David Hoffmann (1864–89), and Moritz Jung (1890–1912), who in 1891 established a gymnasium, the first high school of its kind, which combined Jewish studies with a general education. During the 1848 Revolution Jewish members of the national guard successfully prevented the outbreak of anti-Jewish riots in Uhersky Brod; they were subsequently forced out of the militia. Uhersky Brod was one of the most Orthodox communities in Moravia. In 1872 the ultra-Orthodox group in the community seceded, in protest against the moving of the bimah and the introduction of a choir; bitter strife divided the community for over a generation. Both factions adhered to Orthodox tradition.
          
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Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Germany:    Checked
  
Subject
Homiletics:    Checked
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    German, some Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica