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Solomon Maimon : an autobiography / edited and with a epilogue by Moses Hadas.
Library at the Katz Center - Special B3068 .A32 1947 P
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Maimon, Salomon, 1754-1800.
- Series:
- Schocken library ; 5.
- The Schocken library ; 5
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Maimon, Salomon, 1754-1800.
- Maimon, Salomon.
- Jews--Poland--Biography.
- Jews.
- Poland.
- Jews--Germany--Biography.
- Germany.
- Philosophers--Germany--Biography.
- Philosophers.
- Jewish philosophers--Germany--Biography.
- Jewish philosophers.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)
- Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 116 pages ; 20 cm.
- Manufacture:
- New York : Manfactured by H. Wolff.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Schocken Books, 1947.
- Contents:
- Grandfather's menage
- Early reminiscences; Education formal and informal
- Jewish schools and the joy of release from them
- My family reduced to misery
- New abode, new misery; The Talmudist
- "Joy endureth but a little"
- "The ungodly provideth, and the righteous putteth it on"
- Love affairs and matrimonial proposals
- I become an object of contention, get two wives at once, and am at last kidnapped
- The secrets of matrimony
- Striving for culture and struggles with misery
- I study the Kabbalah, and even become a physician
- Jewish piety and penances
- Friendship and schwärmerei
- The life of a family tutor
- A secret society: the Hasidic Sect
- Journeys to Koenigsberg, Stettin and Berlin to learn the ways of men
- Deepest misery and deliverance
- Arrival in Berlin; Acquaintances; Mendelssohn; Desperate study of metaphysics; Doubts; Lectures on Locke and Adelung
- Departure from Berlin; Sojourn in Hamburg and Amsterdam; A silly old woman falls in love with me, but is rejected
- Return to Hamburg; A Lutheran pastor pronounces me a scabby sheep, unworthy of admission into the Christian fold; I enter the gymnasium, and frighten the chief Rabbi out of his wits
- Third journey to Berlin; Frustrated plan of Hebrew authorship; Journey to Breslau; Divorce
- Fourth journey to Berlin; Unfortunate circumstances; Help; Study of Kant's writings; My own works
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- "The present edition is based upon the translation of J. Clark Murray ... published in London in 1888. The original German text, an extensive one, and burdened with many learned asides, has been here reduced to a clear and uninterrupted account of Maimon's extraordinary life."--P. 116.
- Local Notes:
- Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.
- Potok Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Herman Potok November 1952".
- OCLC:
- 377075
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