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Lot #    15314
Auction End Date    7/18/2006 1:14:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Zum siebzigsten Geburtstage des
Title (Hebrew)    Professor Dr. Heinrich Graetz, am 31. October
Author    [Only Ed.]
City    Magdeburg
Publisher    Israelitischen Wochenschrift
Publication Date    1887
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only editon. 36 pp. plus title pastdown, 205:125 mm., usual age staining, some worming, bound in later full cloth boards.
          
Detailed
Description		    Dr. Heinrich Graetz (1817–1891), Jewish historian and Bible scholar. Graetz was born in Xions (Ksiaz), Poznan, the son of a butcher. From 1831 to 1836 he pursued rabbinic studies in Wolstein (now Wolsztyn) near Poznan. There Graetz taught himself French and Latin and avidly read general literature. This brought him to a spiritual crisis, but reading S. R. Hirsch's "Nineteen Letters on Judaism" in 1836 restored his faith. He accepted Hirsch's invitation to continue his studies in the latter's home and under his guidance. Eventually their relationship cooled; he left Oldenburg in 1840 and worked as a private tutor in Ostrow. In 1842 he obtained special permission to study at Breslau University. As no Jew could obtain a Ph.D. at Breslau, Graetz presented his thesis to the University of Jena. This work was later published under the title Gnostizismus und Judentum (1846). By then Graetz had come under the influence of Z. Frankel, and it was he who initiated a letter of congratulations to Frankel for leaving the second Rabbinical Conference (Frankfort, 1845) in protest, after the majority had decided against prayers in Hebrew. Graetz now became a contributor to Frankel's Zeitschrift fuer die religioesen Interessen des Judentums, in which, among others, he published his programmatic "Konstruktion der juedischen Geschichte" (1846). Reference Description EJ
          
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19th Century:    Checked
  
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Language:    German
  
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