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Lot #    20985
Auction End Date    6/17/2008 11:31:30 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Einladungsschrift zu der am 3, 4, 5 und 6 April 18
City    Frankfurt am Main
Publisher    Druck von G. Adelmann
Publication Date    1876
          
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Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
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Physical
Description		    Only edition. 58 pp., 256:205 mm., light age staining. A very good copy bound as issued. Rare - WorldCat lists only one library worldwide that holds this title.
          
Paragraph 1    Full title: Einladungsschrift zu der am 3, 4, 5 und 6 April 1876, stattfindenden öffentlichen Prüfung der Real u. Volksschule der israelitischen Gemeinde, zu Frankfurt a.M.

An invitation to a public examination of the school on the 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th of April, 1876.

It contains an article by Dr. Adolf Brull on the History and Literature of the Samaritans and an article by Dr. Baerwald, director of the school.
          
Detailed
Description		    The Real- und Volksschule der Israelitischen Gemeinde in Frankfurt-on-the-Main (Philanthropin), founded in 1804 by Sigmund Geisenheimer. It was at first non-sectarian, but when the city came under Prussian rule the school was restricted to Jewish youth.

Adolf Brull (1846–1908) studied at the universities of Vienna, Prague, and Breslau, and at the Breslau Jewish Theological Seminary. From 1871 to 1903 he taught at the Philanthropin Jewish High School in Frankfort. His special field of study was the Samaritan translation of the Pentateuch. Among his published works are: Fremdsprachliche Redensarten... in den Talmuden und Midraschim (1869); Trachten der Judenim nachbiblischen Alterthum (1873); Kritische Studien ueber Samaritanische Manuscript-Fragmente (1875); Zur Geschichte und Literatur der Samaritaner (1876); and Beitraege zur Kenntnis der juedisch-deutschen Literatur (1877). Bruell also edited articles in the Populaerwissenschaftliche Monatsblaetter zur Belehrung ueber das Judentum fuer Gebildete aller Konfessionen (1881–1908), to which he contributed numerous articles. He wrote a biography of David Einhorn and was a contributor to the Jewish Encyclopedia.

          
Paragraph 2    Hermann Baerwald was a German educator; born at Nakel, in the province of Posen, Nov. 7, 1828. His academic education began at the gymnasium of Konitz, continued at the Elisabeth-Gymnasium of Breslau, supplemented by a couple of years spent under the inspiring influence of Gustav A. Stenzel, then the head of a school devoted to the study of philology and history, and wound up at the University of Berlin, where he became an object of Leopold von Ranke's interest, who greatly influenced Baerwald's future career. With his academic titles gained at the Prussian capital, Baerwald proceeded in 1856 to Vienna, only to be called three years later to Berlin to fill an important place at the Jewish Teachers' Seminary of that city. Here he remained till 1868, when a call was extended to him from the Jewish community of Frankfort-on-the-Main to act thereafter as the director of their realschule for boys and girls known under the name of the "Philanthropin." A more favorable field for the realization of Baerwald's great qualities could not be found. Baerwald was possessed of a deep longing to spread light and relieve human misery, and a noble presence, rendered magnetic by a charm of manner and a soft, melodious voice, opened to him every heart and even many a capacious purse for the benefit ofthe needy. Baerwald is a member of the central committee of the Alliance Israélite Universelle in Paris. There is hardly a benevolent institution in Frankfort that has not felt his benign influence. The name of the young men who are indebted to Baerwald for their making is legion. After an activity of thirty-one years at the Philanthropin, Baerwald retired from the office he had filled with considerable honor under general manifestations of admiration and gratitude. Baerwald is the author of: "Formelbuch," "Historische Miscellen: Lebensrettung Kaiser Otto II. durch den Juden Kalonymus," in Wertheimer's "Jahrbuch," 1857; and "Zur Geschichte der Israelitischen Real-und Volksschule in Frankfurt am Main von 1804-1822," 1875.
          
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Language:    German
  
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