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Lot #    17859
Auction End Date    4/24/2007 12:00:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Alter Vogel
Author    [Only Ed.] Saaul Kaatz
City    Berlin
Publisher    Louis Lamm
Publication Date    1919
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. [2], 105, [1] mm., 210:135 mm., usual age staining, stamps. A very good copy bound in the original boards.
          
Detailed
Description		    Novel by Saaul Kaatz (1870–1942?), rabbi and scholar. Kaatz, who was born in Schwersenz (Swarzedz), Poznania, served as rabbi at Hindenburg, Upper Silesia, from 1895. When the validity of the Nazis' anti-Jewish legislation in Upper Silesia was contested before the League of Nations in 1933 (see Bernheim Petition), Kaatz was among those who courageously resisted the German government's intimidation. He spurned the possibility of emigration and was deported to his death with his congregation in 1942. Kaatz was an individualist and often upheld unpopular ideas against his fellows in the Orthodox rabbinate, just as he opposed, in 1897, the anti-Zionist line of the Allgemeiner Rabbinerverband.

His published writings include: Die Scholien des Gregorius Abulfaragius Bar Hebraeus zum Weisheitsbuch des Josua ben Sira... (1892); Das Wesen des juedischen Religionsunterrichts (1904); Wesen des prophetischen Judentums (1907); Abraham Geigers religioeser Charakter (1911); Die muendliche Lehre und ihr Dogma... (2 vols., 1922–23); Weltschoepfungsaera und Wissenschaft (1928); and Sendschreiben an den Vorstand... der Vereinigung traditionell-gesetzestreuen Rabbiner Deutschlands, in which he opposed the custom of abbreviating the name of God in non-Hebrew languages. Kaatz was a regular contributor to Wohlgemuth's Jeschurun and the weekly Israelit. He also wrote short stories (Alter Vogel, 1919) and a play, Alexander der Grosse vor Jerusalem.

          
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Germany:    Checked
  
Subject
Other:    Literature
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    German
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica