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Lot #    15747
Auction End Date    9/5/2006 1:13:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Ruth. Deutches Gebet und Erbauungsbuch
Author    [Women - Liturgy]David Feuchtwang
City    Breslau
Publisher    Jakob B. Brandeis
Publication Date    1908
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    First edition. Frontpiece, XVI, 197, [2] pp., 174:114 mm., wide margins, light age staining. A very good copy bound in the original clothboards, embossed in gild "Rosemarie Heymann."
          
Detailed
Description		    David Feuchtwang (1864–1936), rabbi and scholar. After studying in Vienna and Berlin, Feuchtwang succeeded his father Meir as rabbi in Mikulov , Moravia, in 1892. In 1903 he became rabbi in Vienna and succeeded H. P. Chajes as chief rabbi (1927). Feuchtwang contributed numerous articles to both Jewish and non-Jewish scholarly journals. Among his published work are: Nachum im Lichte der Assyriologie (1888); Das Wasseropfer und die damit verbundenen Zeremonien (1911); Der Tierkreis in der Tradition und im synagogalen Ritus (1913); Studien zum Buche Ruth (1925). He also wrote a study of the Hebrew tombstone inscriptions of Mikulov. Several volumes of his sermons and lectures were published.
          
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Germany:    Checked
  
Subject
Liturgy:    Checked
Other:    Women's Literature
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    German, some Hebrew
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica