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Lot #    16054
Auction End Date    10/24/2006 12:05:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Gedaechtnikrede... Majestaet Ferdinand
Author    [Community - Only Ed. - Liturgy] Alexander Kisch
City    Bruex (Most), Bohemia
Publication Date    1875
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. [4] pp. plus title wrappers, 207:144 mm., light age staining. A very good copy bound as issued. Rare - no copy in major collections.
          
Detailed
Description		    Homile in honor of Kaiser Ferdinand den Gutigen of Austria by Alexander Kisch (1848–1917), Austrian rabbi and scholar. Born in Prague, Kisch studied at the Breslau Jewish theological seminary, and at various universities. In Paris he became a tutor in Baron Horace Guenzburg's house. He served as rabbi in Bruex (Most), Bohemia (1874–77); in Zurich, Switzerland (1877–81); in Jungbunzlau (Mlada Beleslav), Bohemia (1881–86); and at the Meisels Synagogue in Prague (1886–1917). While serving in Zurich, Kisch founded and published (1878–80) the first Swiss-Jewish weekly, Neue Israelitische Zeitung. In 1899, Franz Joseph I awarded Kisch a gold medal for 25 years' service as a military chaplain; at the audience, Kisch persuaded the monarch to strongly condemn anti-Semitism, which was then assuming alarming proportions after the Hilsner trial for ritual murder. Kisch was the first and only rabbi in Austria to be appointed a government professor of religion (1900) and an inspector of religious education (1909). Among Kisch's published works are: Papst Gregor des Neunten Anklageartikel gegen den Talmud (1847); Hillel der Alte (1889); Das Testament Mardochai Meysels mitgetheilt und... beleuchtet: Festschrift zum 300-jaehrigen Jubilaeum der Meyselssynagogue (1893); Das mosaisch-talmudische Eherecht von R. Ezechiel Landau (1900); and Versuch einer neuen Erklaerung der in der Alkuinhandschrift Nr. 795 der Hofbibliothek Wien enthaltenen gotischen Fragmente (1902).
          
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Germany:    Checked
  
Subject
Homiletics:    Checked
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    German
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica