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Lot #
14960
Auction End Date
7/18/2006 10:19:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
Title Information
Title (English)
Ueber die Erloesung des Judentums
Author
[Only Ed. - Polemic] Gustav Levinstein
City
Berlin
Publication Date
1900
Collection Information
Independent Item
This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
Description Information
Physical
Description
Only edition. 23 pp., 224:145 mm., wide margins, usual age staining, stamps. A very good copy bound in later paper wrappers.
Detailed
Description
Gustav Levinstein, German manufacturer and writer; born in Berlin May, 1842. After graduating from the Köllnisches Gymnasium in Berlin he went to England, where he and his brothers founded an anilin-dye factory at Manchester. Returning to Berlin, he entered the university and studied philosophy. He owns factories in southern France, though living in Berlin. He has at various times taken up his pen in behalf of Judaism and Jewish rights. Of his works the following may be mentioned: "Wissenschaftlicher Antisemitismus," directed against Paulsen (Berlin, 1896); "Der Glaube Israels" (ib. 1896); "Die Taufe" (ib. 1899); "Professor Paulsen und die Judenfrage" (ib. 1897); "Die Forderung des Sonntag-Gottesdienstes: Antwort auf das Gutachten des Rabbinats und den Beschluss der Repräsentanten-Versammlung," in support of supplementary Sunday services (ib. 1898); "Ueber die Erlösung des Judenthums," against Benediktus Levita (ib. 1900); "Professor Ladenburg und der Unsterblichkeitsgedanke im Judenthum" (ib. 1904).
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:
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Location
Germany:
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Subject
Polemics:
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Characteristic
First Editions:
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Language:
German
Manuscript Type
Kind of Judaica
