Julius Goldstein Baisingen lectures, sermons, and writings : manuscript.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Goldstein, Julius, Rabbi (Baisingen, Germany), author, scribe.

Contributor:

Schnerb, Walter Nathan, 1925-2019, former owner.

Language:

German

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Manuscripts, German--Germany--Rottenburg am Neckar. Baisingen--20th century--Specimens.

Manuscripts, German.

Jewish religious education--Germany--20th century.

Jewish religious education.

Fasts and feasts--Judaism.

Fasts and feasts.

Jewish sermons, German--20th century.

Jewish sermons, German.

Baisingen (Rottenburg am Neckar, Germany).

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Sermons.

Lectures.

Manuscripts.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly in the collection of Walter Nathan Schnerb (1925-2019), baʻal kore of K'hal Adath Jeshurun (Washington Heights, New York, N.Y., also owner of Harwitt Bindery), formerly of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and Julius Goldstein's son in law.

Sold by Mizrahi Bookstore (Brooklyn, N.Y.), 2024.

Physical Description:

2 volumes : paper ; 24 cm

Production:

Baisingen (Rottenberg am Neckar, Germany), 1924-1938

Language Note:

Text in German, with portions and quotes in Hebrew.

Summary:

Two volumes of Julius Goldstein's documents and writings, bound in secondary bindings, of classes, lectures, and sermons mostly given in Baisingen.

Contents:

Volume 1: Schiur-Vorträge 1925-1926 [12 paperbound fascicles of classes, lectures, and articles on Biblical themes]

Volume 2: Shiurim Predigten Vortraege [bound collection of handwritten and typed sermons, 1934-1938].

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger.

Lectures were dated by fascicle, and sermons were individually dated (and irregularly placed); includes weekly Sedra sermons, Bar mitzva sermons, funerary sermons and eulogies; a sermon delivered on the theme of Amalek for Parashat Zakhor (written on 3 December 1933), titled "Ansprache zum Volkstrauertag 1933" contains allusions to the gaining power of the National Socialist (Nazi) party in Germany; talks and sermons delivered in the Bloch household in Öhringen; a talk on 13 October 1934 on legends of the Babylonian Empire, the Hanging Gardens, and Tower of Babel, and wars and kings in the Bible; a lecture on the generation of the Aramaic Targums, called "Bibelübersetzungen"; another lecture on Biblical histories, delivered in Stuttgart, May 5, 1934; and explorations into the Mahzor, Selihot, and the Kinnot.

Cited as:

Julius Goldstein Baisingen lectures, sermons, and writings (UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 795). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

1547588096