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Lot #    15211
Auction End Date    7/18/2006 12:23:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Der Jüdische Alexandrinismus
Author    [Only Ed.] Eliezer Sinai Kirschbaum
City    Leipzig
Publisher    S. L. Fritzsche
Publication Date    1841
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. vi, [1], 74, [1]; [1], iv, [2], 6-20, [4]; 21, [4] pp., 204:126 mm., wide margins, usual light age and damp staining, stamps. A very good copy bound in contemporary marbled paper boards.
          
Detailed
Description		    Eliezer Sinai Kirschbaum (1798–1870), physician and author; leader of the Haskalah in Galicia; born in Sieniawa, Poland. In 1816 he went to Berlin to study medicine and later practiced in Cracow, where he distinguished himself during the cholera epidemic in 1831. In appreciation the senate of the Republic of Cracow awarded him a building plot. As ownership of land was forbidden to Jews, Kirschbaum took out a certificate of baptism, but he nevertheless remained faithful to Judaism. From his student days he was in contact with David Friedlaender and Leopold Zunz. He was a member of the Verein fuer Kultur und Wissenschaft des Judentums and in 1821 presented it with a memorandum in which he adopted a positive attitude toward the idea of a Jewish state, identified himself with the program of Mordecai Manuel Noah, but advocated Ethiopia instead of the United States as the transitional territory to Erez Israel. His works include Leket Shirim u-Melizot (1820, Heb. and Ger.), a collection of poems and proverbs; Hilkhot Yemot ha-Mashi'ah (1822), in which he interpreted messianism as the political, non-miraculous redemption of the Jewish people; Maimonides Specimen Diacteticum (1822); Vorschlaege betreffend einige gesellschaftliche Institutionen (1842), lectures on social institutions; Aufsaetze im Gebiete der Religion und des sozialen Lebens (1843), essays relating to religion and socialism; and Es ist noch heute oder Der Familie Apotheose (1858).
          
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19th Century:    Checked
  
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Germany:    Checked
  
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Language:    German, some Hebrew
  
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Kind of Judaica