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Lot #    15234
Auction End Date    7/18/2006 12:35:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Catechismus der Mosaischen Religion
Author    [Only Ed. - Reform] Eduard Kley
City    Berlin
Publisher    Maurerschen
Publication Date    1814
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. VIII, 96, [4] pp., 177:103 mm., wide margins, light age staining. A very good copy loose in contemporary paper wrappers. Rare - No copy major collections.
          
Detailed
Description		    Eduard Kley (Israel; 1789–1867), German pedagogue and Reform preacher. Orphaned at an early age, Kley studied Talmud at Breslau and then became tutor to the Beer family of Berlin. There he preached in Israel Jacobson's private temple and associated with L. Zunz, Auerbach, and other reformers. In 1817–18 he and C. S. Ginsburg published in Berlin Die deutsche Synagoge, which proposed a complete liturgy in German. Moving to Hamburg as director of the Jewish free school there, Kley preached in the Hamburg Temple, delivering sermons on Sunday and introducing the organ and a choir. He composed numerous hymns imbued with prevalent Romantic themes. Considered one of the leading preachers of his day, Kley published many collections of his hymns and sermons, which were indebted to F. Schleiermacher and other Protestant preachers. Kley stressed the devotional aspect of religion in his sermons and held that the essence of Judaism was exemplified in the three fundamental principles of Joseph Albo - belief in the existence of G-d, belief in revelation, and belief in divine retribution.
          
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Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Germany:    Checked
  
Subject
Homiletics:    Checked
Reform:    Checked
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    German, some Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica