Cohen, Hermann. Der Sabbath in seiner Culturgeschichtlichen Bedeutung [”The Sabbath and its Cultural-Historical Significance.”]

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Lot 41
(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

Cohen, Hermann. Der Sabbath in seiner Culturgeschichtlichen Bedeutung [”The Sabbath and its Cultural-Historical Significance.”]

Printed over-slip on p. 15. pp. 19 (1). Ex-library. Contemporary marbled boards with original printed wrappers bound in. 8vo. Singerman, 2977.

Milwaukee: Zeitgeist 1881

Est: $400 - $600
Transcript of a lecture given by Prof. Hermann Cohen in Berlin in 1869, with a five page afterword by him, Marburg, December 1880. Issued by the Milwaukee bi-weekly “Der Zeitgeist,” which was edited by Reform Rabbi Emil G. Hirsch. Ad on last page for the newspaper, an “Israelitisches Familienblatt, ein organ für die Interessen des americanischen Judenthums.” Founder of the Marburg School of neo-Kantianism, Hermann Cohen (1842-1918) was one of the most important Jewish philosopher of the 19th-century.