This annual report of the religious school of the synagogue in Königsberg contains a lecture on Jewish-Christian relations as well as Christianity in Rabbinical literature which was also printed separately with the title Die Anfänge des Talmuds und die Entstehung des Christentums: Vortrag gehalten im Verein für jüdische Geschichte und Literatur zu Königsberg am 19. Februar 1902 (Published in Königsberg by Ostdeutsche Buchhandlung in 1902). The volume also contains reports on synagogue matters.

R. Hermann Vogelstein(1870-1942) was a German rabbi and historian; born at Pilsen, Bohemia on Jan. 8, 1870. His father was Heinemann Vogelstein, rabbi of Stettin. R. Hermann Vogelstein received his education at his native town, the gymnasium at Stettin, and the universities and Jewish theological seminaries at Berlin and Breslau (Ph.D. and rabbi 1894). In 1895 he became rabbi in Oppeln, and since 1897 he has been rabbi at Königsberg, East Prussia.

He is the author of "Die Landwirtschaft in Palästina zur Zeit der Mischnah" (Berlin, 1894) and, together with Rieger, of the first volume of "Geschichte der Juden in Rom," the second volume being written by Rieger alone (Berlin, 1896), and also Militärisches aus der israelitischen Königszeit (Königsberg, 1906).