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Lot #    15004
Auction End Date    7/18/2006 10:41:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Die Beschneidung (Circumcision)
Author    [Only Ed.] A. Glassberg
City    Berlin
Publisher    Verlag von C. Boas Nachf.
Publication Date    1896
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
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Physical
Description
   Only edition. [v] - xxxii, 355 p. illus. 227:150 mm., wide margins, usual age staining. A very good copy bound in later half cloth boards.
          
Detailed
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   Title: Die Beschneidung in ihrer geschichtlichen, ethnographischen, religiösen und medicinischen Bedeutung. Zum ersten Male umfassend dargestellt und unter Mitwirkung von Prof. Dr. M. Steinschneider, J. Steinschneider, Pastor J. Rauchstein [and others]

A volume on circumcision compiled by Abraham Glassberg. The contents are: Ueber die Nützlichkeit des Vorhautschnittes (Posthetomie) bei Neugebornen vom medizinischen Standpunkte aus betrachtet. Von Dr. M. Rawitzki.--Die rituelle Circumcision vom medizinischen Standpunkt aus, dargestellt von Dr. Med. A. Kehlberg und Dr. Med. Ludwig Loewe [the ritual of circumcision from a medical point of view] - Die Beschneidung der Araber und Muhammedaner, mit Rüchsicht auf die neueste Beschneidungsliteratur, Von Moritz Steinschneider (Wien 1845).

A bibliography is included. The text is in German, but notes are given in Hebrew, Greek and Latin. Contributors include: Dr. Max Rawitzki (1858-1899), Dr. Albert Kehlberg (b. 1844), Dr. Ludwig Loewe (1844-1914), and Moritz Steinschneider (1816-1907), who gives a review on the literature on the subject, including the history of the ritual among the Arabs.

          
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19th Century:    Checked
  
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Germany:    Checked
  
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Language:    German, Hebrew, Greek
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica