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Only edition. [14] pp., quarto, 227:155 mm., wide margins, usual age staining, cresed on folds. A good copy bound as issued.

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Title: Festprogramm zur einführung Sr. ehrwurden des Herrn Oberrabbiners Dr. Joseph Carlebach...

Program for the introduction of the newly appointed Chief Rabbi Dr. Joseph Carlebach at the Community Synagogue of Hamburg on Wednesday, April 22, 1936

Joseph Hirsch (Tzvi) Carlebach (1883 – 1942) was an Orthodox rabbi and Jewish-German scholar and natural scientist. Like many of his brothers he became a rabbi and noted rabbinical scholar. From 1901 on he studied at Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin natural sciences, mathematics, astronomy, philosophy and history of art. The quantum physicist Max Planck and the philosopher Wilhelm Dilthey (hermeneutics) were among his teachers. In 1908 he graduated as high-school teacher (Oberlehrer-Examen) of natural sciences (at summa cum laude). In the same time R. Carlebach attended the orthodox Rabbinical Seminary in Berlin. In 1905 to 1907 Carlebach interrupted his studies in Germany and taught at the Lämel-School in Jerusalem. There he learned to know a number of excellent rabbis.

In 1909 Carlebach passed degrees in mathematics, physics and Hebrew at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität in Heidelberg. There he also did his doctorate on the mathematician Levi ben Gershon (Lewi ben Gerson als Mathematiker). Carlebach gained academic reputation by books on Levi ben Gershon as well as on Albert Einstein's relativity theory in 1912. From 1910 to 1914 Carlebach finished his studies at the rabbinical seminary under rabbi David Hoffmann. In 1914 Carlebach was ordained rabbi.

During World War I Carlebach served in the imperial German Army, and organized Jewish sudies for conscripts. R. Carlebach founded the partly German-language Jüdisches Realgymnasium גימנזיום עברי (academic high school) in Kaunas (Kovno; the interwar capital of Lithuania) and directed it until 1919. The school was based on the German Torah im Derech Eretz model. The school provided both Jewish and secular studies both for men and women (separately) and was the model for the Yavneh network that Carlebach later founded in collaboration with Leo Deutschlander. In 1925 Yavneh was taken over by R. Joseph Leib Bloch (*1860-1930*), who relocated it to Telšiai (Russ.: Telshe, Yidd.: Telz טעלז) and incorporated it into the Rabbinical College of Telshe, which managed to re-establish in 1942 in the USA. In 1921 Carlebach became headmaster of the Talmud Torah high school in Hamburg. He served the Jewish communities of Lübeck (1919–22), Altona (1927–36) and Hamburg (1936–1941), as chief rabbi.

He and his familhy were slaughtered by the Nazis in the Holocaust.

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