Die Drei Grossen Propheten : Jesajas, Jirmija und Jecheskel [From the Reichsinstitut für Geschichte des Neuen Deutschlands library]
Frankfurt am Main: Hermon Verlag, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. [8], 133pp. Original red cloth with gold lettering on front cover. Stamp of the Reichsinstitut für Geschichte des Neuen Deutschlands library on free front endpaper, title-page and on page 43. Printer's device on title-page. Scarce and fascinating work in which the author holds that the central theme of the songs is the search for certainty: Israel wants to know not so much why it is exposed to suffering but that it suffers for God's sake. It is a question that reaches beyond one particular incident in history, but is Israel's existential question. Minoe age wear on binding with 0.5" closed tear on upper front joint. Remnant of library sticker at bottom of front board. Minor soiling on covers. Handwritten title on spine. Text in German. Binding in overall good+, interior in very good condition. g. Item #26580
About the author: Dr. Joseph Hirsch (Tzvi) Carlebach (Karlebach) (January 30, 1883, Lübeck - March 26, 1942, was an Orthodox rabbi and Jewish-German scholar and natural scientist (Naturwissenschaftler). After Nazi Germany banned Jewish students from attending German schools together with "Aryan" German children, Rabbi Carlebach set up a number of schools throughout Germany to educate Jewish children. His schools bore his name and were known as Carlebach-Schulen. He was deported to the Nazi concentration camp Jungfernhof by the Nazis, where he was murdered on March 26, 1942 during the mass shooting of approximately 1600 Jews, mostly older people and children, that became known as the Dünamünde Action. This occurred in the Biķerniecki forest, near Riga, Latvia, which was the site of numerous other shootings perpetrated by the Nazis and their Latvian collaborators, in particular, the Arajs Kommando. His wife and younger children were also killed during the Holocaust, one son Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach who became the mashgiach ruchani ("spiritual supervisor" [of students]) at the Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin in Brooklyn, New York City after the war. His third daughter Prof. Miriam Gillis-Carlebach emigrated to Israel in October 1938, she has been teaching Education and Hebrew reading at Bar-Ilan University, in Ramat Gan, since 1973. In 1992 she became the head of the Joseph Carlebach Institute at Bar-Ilan University and has dedicated herself to researching her father's writings as well as the writing of other Jewish leaders of the same time period. Rabbi Joseph Carlebach's wife managed to send her elder children to England, and they survived the war.
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