[Essays on Jewish thought]

Estimate

$1,000–$1,500

Hammer price

Not recorded

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

author

KLEIN, LEOPOLD.

printer

circa

Place

(Chicago-Berlin)

Publication

1900

Description

Manuscript in German, with some use of Hebrew. Signed by author after each essay. Opening blank inscribed by the author’s son, William Klein.

summary

Slovakian born Leopold (Yehudah Aryeh) Klein (1861-1922) was a disciple of the Mahara’m Schick (d. 1879) from whom he received Rabbinical ordination. He then married his mentor’s grand-daughter (the daughter of R. Joseph Schick) and after her death in a cholera epidemic in 1892, married her sister. Although Klein returned to Berlin for the last four years of his life, he spent much time in Chicago. His son Julius Klein rose to the rank of general in the US military. These unpublished essays display an most erudite mind, comfortably at home in a wide gamut of Jewish learning.

ff. 127. Original boards, light wear. 4to.

Enquire about this lot