TAGEBUCH UND BRIEFE

Tubingen: Mohr, 1977. Hardcover. 8vo. Xiv, 469 pages. In German. First edition. SUBJECT (S) : Jewish historians - Germany - biography; Graetz, Heinrich, 1817-1891. SERIES: Schriftenreihe wissenschaftlicher Abhandlungen des Leo-Baeck-Instituts ; ; 34, ; Variation: Schriftenreihe wissenschaftlicher Abhandlungen des Leo Baeck Instituts ; ; 34. ISBN: 3168387622. Graetz (1817-1891) was born in Poznan, and studied rabbinics in Wolsztyn, where he also taught himself French and Latin. After, he studied with S. R. Hirsch, and then at Breslau University; due to anti-semitic rules, however, he presented his Ph. D. Thesis at Jena. The History of the Jews, originally written in German, "was the first comprehensive attempt to write the history of the Jews as the history of a living people and from a Jewish point of view, " and Graetz's life work. (Ettinger, EJ) Has dust jacket. Very good condition. (MX-20-26).