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First fifteen issues of the weekly periodical Sinai (perhaps all published) under the direction of Joseph Alb, a German moderate Reform rabbi. Although this independent organ was not successful at the time is its articles and views of contemporary German-Jewish life make it an important period piece today. Printed in German (Fraktur) with occasional Hebrew an article of particular interest is the complete text (nr. 12 pp. 97-98) of a Herem, in Hebrew against butchers who overcharge. This ban was issued over the signatures of ten leading German rabbis, among them R. Jacob Orenstein, R. Eliezer Segal Landau, and R. Zevi Hirsch Chajes.
Joseph Aub (1805–1880) was rabbi in Bayreuth from 1830 to 1850, in Mainz, and in Berlin from 1865. distinguished as one of the first Bavarian rabbis who delivered their sermons in German and published them later in pamphlet form. Aub published a polemical tract on the Bavarian edict regarding rabbinical qualifications (Betrachtungen und Widerlegungen, 2 vols., 1839), a weekly periodical Sinai (1846), a prayer book (1866), and a religious educational textbook Biblisches Spruchbuch (1868); he collaborated in the writing of periodicals published by A. Geiger. Although a partisan of the Reform movement, Aub did so without losing the historic ground of Judaism. He participated in the rabbinical synods of 1869 and 1871.
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