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Lot #
15693
Auction End Date
9/5/2006 12:46:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
Title Information
Title (English)
Vortrage zur Forderung der Humanitat
Author
[Only Ed. - Reform] Dr. Lazarus Levi Adler
City
Kassel - Berlin
Publisher
Buchhandlung
Publication Date
1860-70
Collection Information
Independent Item
This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
Description Information
Physical
Description
Only edition. [6], vii, [2], 216; x, 262 mm., wide margins, usual light age staining, stamps. A very good copy not bound.
Detailed
Description
Dr. Lazarus Levi Adler (1810–1886), German rabbi and pedagogue, Adler's education included intensive Talmud study in Gelnhausen (Hesse-Nassau) and Wuerzburg and secular studies culminating in a doctorate from the University of Erlangen in 1833. In 1852 Adler became district rabbi of the province of Hesse-Kassel and retained this post until his retirement to Wiesbaden in 1883. Adler represented the more conservative branch of the Reform movement in Germany. While a consistent advocate of religious and educational progress, he opposed measures, such as the abolition of circumcision, which he felt would create an unbridgeable gulf between factions of the Jewish community. He was president of the Kassel rabbinical conference (1868) and an important participant in the German-Jewish synods of Leipzig (1869) and Augsburg (1871). From 1837 to 1839 Adler published Die Synagoge, a periodical containing sermons, popular historical studies, and essays dealing with contemporary Jewish issues. His final religious position is presented in Hillel und Schamai (1878).
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:
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Location
Germany:
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Subject
Reform:
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Characteristic
First Editions:
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Language:
German
Manuscript Type
Kind of Judaica
