(REFORM JUDAISM)

AUCTION 53 | Thursday, December 08th, 2011 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts Autograph Letters & Graphic Art

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Lot 208

(REFORM JUDAISM)

David Friedlaender. Reden, der Erbauung gebildeter Israeliten. [“Speeches on the Construction of the Educated People of Israel.”] pp. 76. Berlin, 1815. * Leopold Zunz and J. Wolfsohn. Zwei Predigten Gehalten bei der Einweihung des in Leipzig [“Two Sermons at the Inauguaration of New Temple, in Leipzig, According to the Reform Temple Society to Hamburg.”] pp. 40. Leipzig, 1820. * Solomon Goththold. Der Wahrhaft Fromme Stirbt Nicht. [sermon following the death of Israel Jacobson, founder of the first Reform Temple]. pp. 32. Altona, 1828. * Solomon Goththold. Licht und Segen [sermon on the 100th birthday of Moses Mendelssohn]. pp. 23. Hamburg, 1829. Browned, few stains. Unbound. 8vo

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Est: $1,200 - $1,800

David Friedlander (1750-1834) son-in-law of the wealthy banker Daniel Itzig, was the intellectual successor of Moses Mendelssohn and occupied a prominent position in both the Jewish and non-Jewish circles of Berlin. Leopold Zunz (1794-1886) was the founder of the innovative Wissenschaft des Judentums school of learning. Israel Jacobson (1768-1828) Reform religious thinker whose innovations were egalitarian and based on Enlightenment thinking and reason, upon which basis he established in his own home a hall for worship. Gotthold Salomon (1784-1862) was editor of the journal Shulamith, preacher at the Hamburg Temple and lobbyist for the full emancipation of the Jews in Germany.