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Lot #    9854
Auction End Date    3/22/2005 2:14:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Urschrift und Übersetzungen der Bibel in ihren
Title (Hebrew)    Abhängigkeit von der innern Entwicklung des Judent
Author    [First & Second Ed.] Abraham Geiger
City    Breslau; Frankfurt am Main
Publisher    Julius Hainauer; Verlag Madda
Publication Date    1857; 1928
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    First and second editions. Two volumes, wide margins, light age staining. Very good copy bound in contemporary boards, rubbed.
          
Detailed
Description		    Abraham Geiger (1810–1874), rabbi, son of an old-established family in Frankfort, one of the leaders of the Reform movement in Judaism, and an outstanding scholar of Wissenschaft des Judentums. Geiger received a traditional education. His principal teacher was his elder brother, Solomon Geiger. He was also influenced by the teachings of B. W. Heidenheim. Subsequently, he began to study oriental languages and Greek, from 1829 in Heidelberg and then in Bonn. In Bonn Geiger became acquainted with his future Orthodox adversary S. R. Hirsch, whom he greatly admired at the time, setting up in conjunction with him and several other young men a circle for developing the art of preaching. In 1832, Geiger became rabbi in Wiesbaden, where he took his first steps to introduce reform of the synagogue services, and began publication of the Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift fuer juedische Theologie (6 vols. in 5, 1835–47), to which the most important Jewish scholars of his day contributed. In 1837 he convened the first meeting of Reform rabbis in Wiesbaden. In 1838, Geiger was chosen as dayyan and assistant rabbi by the Breslau community, but, owing to the strong opposition of its rabbi, S. A. Tiktin, Geiger was not able to take up his position until 1840. After Tiktin's death in 1843, Geiger was accorded the rabbinate by the majority of the community, thus causing the Orthodox minority to secede. In Breslau Geiger established a school for religious studies and a group for study of Hebrew philology. Geiger was one of the most active participants in the Synods held by the Reform rabbis in Frankfort (1845) and Breslau (1846). He was among the initiators of the Juedisch-Theologisches Seminar in Breslau in 1854, but contrary to his wishes was not appointed its principal because of opposition from the conservatives. From 1863 Geiger served as rabbi of the Reform congregation in his hometown Frankfort, and from the beginning of 1870 was rabbi of the Berlin congregation; in 1872, the Hochschule fuer die Wissenschaft des Judentums was established in Berlin with his assistance and Geiger directed it until his death.
          
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Subject
Bible:    Checked
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Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    German
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica