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Lot #    17831
Auction End Date    4/24/2007 11:46:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Sabbath und Festreden
Author    [Only Ed.] Dr. M. M. Kalisch
City    Frankfort am Main
Publisher    J. B. Streng
Publication Date    1868
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. VI, [1], 226 pp., 175:116 mm., light age staining, stamps. A very good copy bound in later boards.
          
Detailed
Description		    Homilies by Markus Moritz Kalisch (1828–1885), Hebraist and biblical commentator. Kalish was born in Treptow, Pomerania and studied at the Berlin University, where he graduated in 1848, and the Rabbinical College of Berlin. He was active in the struggle for freedom in Europe which resulted in the emeute of 1848 and as a result had to leave Germany and settled in England, where he remained until his death. He was appointed secretary to Chief Rabbi N. M. Adler, holding the post from 1848 to 1853 after which he served as tutor and literary adviser to the Rothschild family, where he was able to devote himself to biblical scholarship and Hebrew grammar. He contemplated writing a comprehensive commentary on the Pentateuch, giving a resume of Jewish and Christian scholarship to date, but completed only the first three volumes, Exodus (1885), Genesis (1858), and Leviticus (Part 1, 1867; Part 2, 1872), in the last of which he anticipated Wellhausen to a considerable extent. Other publications were a Hebrew grammar in two parts and Bible studies on the book of Jonah (1876) and on the prophecies of Balaam (1877). In 1880 there appeared his last work Path and Goal: A Discussion on the Elements of Civilization and the Conditions of Happiness, consisting of an attempt to combine the views of the representatives of the main religions.
          
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19th Century:    Checked
  
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Germany:    Checked
  
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Homiletics:    Checked
  
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Language:    German
  
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Kind of Judaica