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Lot #
9232
Auction End Date
2/15/2005 10:51:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
Title Information
Title (English)
Die deutsche Synagoge
Author
[Only Ed. - Reform] Eduard Kley & C. S. Ginsburg
City
Berlin
Publisher
Maurerichen
Publication Date
1817
Collection Information
Independent Item
This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
Description Information
Physical
Description
First edition. xxiv, 272, [7] pp., 193:118 mm., nice margins usual age staining. A very good copy bound in contemporary boards, rubbed.
Detailed
Description
Eduard Kley (Israel; 1789–1867), German pedagogue and Reform preacher. Orphaned at an early age, Kley studied Talmud at Breslau and then became tutor to the Beer family of Berlin. There he preached in Israel Jacobson's private temple and associated with L. Zunz, Auerbach, and other reformers. In 1817–18 he and C. S. Ginsburg published in Berlin Die deutsche Synagoge, which proposed a complete liturgy in German. Moving to Hamburg as director of the Jewish free school there, Kley preached in the Hamburg Temple, delivering sermons on Sunday and introducing the organ and a choir. He composed numerous hymns imbued with prevalent Romantic themes. Considered one of the leading preachers of his day, Kley published many collections of his hymns and sermons, which were indebted to F. Schleiermacher and other Protestant preachers. Kley stressed the devotional aspect of religion in his sermons and held that the essence of Judaism was exemplified in the three fundamental principles of Joseph Albo - belief in the existence of G-d, belief in revelation, and belief in divine retribution.
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:
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Location
Germany:
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Subject
Reform:
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Characteristic
First Editions:
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Language:
German
Manuscript Type
Kind of Judaica
