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Jubelschrift zum neunzigsten Geburtstag, Berlin 1884

תפארת שיבה - Only Edition

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  • Lot Number 48145
  • Title (English) Jubelschrift zum neunzigsten Geburtstag
  • Title (Hebrew) תפארת שיבה
  • Note Only Edition
  • Author Leopold Zunz
  • City Berlin
  • Publisher (דפוס לעווענט)
  • Publication Date 1884
  • Estimated Price - Low 200
  • Estimated Price - High 500

  • Item # 1436284
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Physical Description

Only edition. [2], 217 [1]; VI, [1], 171, [3] pp., quarto, 245:165  mm., wide margins, usual age staining. A very good copy bound in contemporary half cloth and marbled paper over boards, split.

 

Detail Description

Title: Jubelschrift zum neunzigsten Geburtstag des Dr. L. Zunz. Herausgegeben durch das Curatorium der Zunz-Stiftung...

Leopold Zunz (1794-1886) was a German Reform rabbi and writer, the founder of what has been termed "Jewish Studies" or "Judaic Studies" (Wissenschaft des Judentums), the critical investigation of Jewish literature, hymnology and ritual. Zunz's historical investigations and contemporary writings had an important influence on contemporary Judaism.

Leopold Zunz was born at Detmold, and settled in Berlin in 1815, studying at the University of Berlin and obtaining a doctorate from the University of Halle. He was ordained by the early Reformer, Aaron Chorin, and served for two years teaching and giving sermons in the Reform New Synagogue in Berlin. He found the career uncongenial, and in 1840 he was appointed director of a Lehrerseminar, a post which relieved him from pecuniary troubles. Zunz was always interested in politics, and in 1848 addressed many public meetings. In 1850 he resigned his headship of the Teachers' Seminary, and was awarded a pension. Throughout his early and married life he was the champion of Jewish rights, and he did not withdraw from public affairs until 1874, the year of the death of his wife Adelheid Beermann, whom he had married in 1822.

Together with other young men, among them the poet Heinrich Heine, Zunz founded the Verein fur Kultur und Wissenschaft der Juden The Society for the Culture and Science of the Jews alongside Joel Abraham List, Isaac Marcus Jost, and Eduard Gans in Berlin in 1819. In 1823, Zunz became the editor of the Zeitschrift fur die Wissenschaft des Judenthums [Journal for the Science of Judaism]. The ideals of this Verein were not destined to bear religious fruit, but the "Science of Judaism" survived. Zunz "took no large share in Jewish reform", but never lost faith in the regenerating power of "science" as applied to the traditions and literary legacies of the ages. He influenced Judaism from the study rather than from the pulpit.

Although affiliated with the Reform movement, Zunz appeared to show little sympathy for it, though this has been attributed to his disdain for ecclesiastical ambition and fears that rabbinical autocracy would result from the Reform crusade. Further, Isidore Singer and Emil Hirsch have stated that "the point of (Geiger's) protest against Reform was directed against Holdheim and the position maintained by this leader as an autonomous rabbi." Later in life Zunz went so far as to refer to rabbis as soothsayers and quacks

 

Hebrew Description

דברי סופרים ... אשר נדב לבם אותם להגיש מנחת תודה מזכרת אהבה לאבי חכמת ישרון... יום טוב ליפמן צונץ... ביום מלאת לו תשעים שנה. הוציאו לאור ראשי חברת מזכרת צונץ.

תוכן הענינים לחלק העברי: אוהב נשים, מאת ידעיה הפניני. הוציא לאור אברהם נויבואר; מאמר גן עדן, לר’ חיים בן ישראל, הוציא לאור מאת פייטרו פרו;.

Bibliographie Hebraeischer Denk-und Trauer-Reden

מאת אהרן ילינק (הופיע גם כתדפיס בשם "קונטרס המספיד"); באר לחי, דרוש נגד המגפה, מאת יצחק בן טודרוס. הוציא לאור דוד גינצבורג; הלכות גדולות, הלכות פסוקות, הלכות קצובות, מאת יהושע השיל שור; חשן משפט, מאת שמעון בר יוסף. הוציא לאור דוד קויפמאן; פירוש המשנה לרמב"ם מסכת כלים (פרק ראשון). הוציא לאור יוסף נפתלי דרנבורג (הפירוש לכל סדר טהרות יצא לאור בברלין תרמ"ז-תרנ"ב); שירי ר’ שלמה בן גבירול. שני שירים (אתן לאלי עז וגם תפארת, אוצר השיר והפיוט, א, עמ’ 405, מס’ 8937; כשרש עץ יהי ארך אמיריו וכתבונת אנוש ישר אמריו, שם ב, עמ’ 489, מס’ 555). הוציא לאור עקיבא איגר; פיוטי בן קליר. עשרה פיוטים, יוצאים לאור על ידי פנחס פריץ פראנקל. ‬

 

References

EJ; Wikipedia; Bibliography of the Hebrew Book 1470-1960 #000180024