(AMERICAN JUDAICA)

AUCTION 27 | Tuesday, February 08th, 2005 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Autographed Letters, Manuscripts, Ceremonial & Graphic Art

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Lot 12

(AMERICAN JUDAICA)

PHILIPPSON, MARTIN, M.D. Die blutgier [sic] Spaniens und Vertreibung der Juden: Historische Skizze aus den Zeiten des fuenfzehnten Jahrhunderts. [The Bloody Spaniards and the Expulsion of the Jews: Historical Sketch of the Times of the Fifteenth Century]. Adapted by Rev. F. Schauer pp. (3), 4-23. With the exception of two pencil marginalia, clean copy. Original boards. 8vo Singerman 2414 (who locates just two copies)

Milwaukee: 1873

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

FIRST JEWISH BOOK PRINTED IN MILWAUKEE Historian Martin Philippson (1846-1916) was the eldest son of Ludwig Philippson, Reform rabbi cum politician, most famous for his translation of the Tanach (Bible) into German. Martin Philippson was Professor of History, first at the University of Bonn, and later at the University of Brussels. He authored several modern historical studies ranging from the Elizabethan Era to the History of the Counter-Reformation. His final years in retirement in Berlin were devoted to Jewish communal work. He headed the Lehranstalt für die Wissenschaft des Judentums, which commissioned his three-volume Neueste Geschichte des jüdischen Volkes [New HIstory of the Jewish People] (1907-11). See JE, Vol. IX, pp. 684-5; EJ, Vol. XIII, col. 397