Studies in Jewish Literature Issued in Honor of Professor Kaufmann Kohler on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday May the Tenth Nineteen Hundred and Thirteen
Berlin: Georg Reimer, 1913. First edition. Hardcover. Ex-library copy. 4to. vi, (1), 301pp. (2). Original brown cloth with gold print on spine. Marbled endpapers. Frontispiece b/w photograph of Dr. Kaufmann Kohler with reproduction of signature. Publisher's emblem on title pp. Collection of articles put together by David Philipson, David Neumark and Julian Morgenstern to honor Dr. Kaufmann Kohler, the President of Hebrew Union College of Cincinnati. 2 pp. of ads for books published by Verlag Geor Reimer publishing. Text in English, German and Hebrew. Signed by former owner. General aging. Perforated library stamp. Head and tail of spine bumped. Text in good condition. Overall moderately good condition. g. Item #29322
Articles include:
“R. Moses 'Hayim Luzzato's 'Path of the Righteous” by Emil G. Hirsch
“Allegorische Gesetzesauslegung bei den alteren Karaern von Rabbiner” by R. Dr. Samuel Poznanski
“Midrash Fragment” by Prof. Solomon Schechter
Dr. Kaufmann Kohler was a late 19th to early 20th German-American Jewish scholar. As a youth he studied with such Orthodox figures as R. Simon Bamberger, Dr. Marcus Lehmann, R. Jacob Ettlinger and R. Samson Raphael Hirsch before studying under R. Abraham Geiger. He came to the United States in 1869 where he assumed an active leadership in the Reform movement. Succeeded R. Dr. Isaac M. Wise as President of Hebrew Union College in 1903.
Owner: "... Guggenheim"
Library stamp: "Univ. of California"
Price: $75.00