1st Edition. Original binding. Inscribed by the author. 8vo. 383 pages ; 23 cm. In German. Title translates in English as, Foundation for a Systematic Theology of Judaism on a Historical Basis. Kaufmann Kohler (1843-1946) was a German-born U. S. Reform rabbi and theologian. (He) was born into a family of rabbis
. (and) received his rabbinical training at Hassfurt, Höchberg near Würzburg, Mainz, Altona, and at Frankfurt am Main (under Samson Raphael Hirsch) , and his university training at Munich, Berlin, Leipzig, and Erlangen (Ph. D. 1868; his thesis, "Der Segen Jacob's", was one of the earliest Jewish essays in the field of the higher Biblical criticism, and its radical character had the effect of closing to him the Jewish pulpit in Germany) . Abraham Geiger, to whose Zeitschrift Kohler became a contributor at an early age, strongly influenced his career and directed his steps to America. In 1869 he accepted a call to the pulpit of the Beth-El congregation in Detroit; in 1871 he became rabbi of Chicago Sinai Congregation. In 1879 he succeeded his father-in-law, David Einhorn, as rabbi of Temple Beth-El, New York City; his brother-in-law, Emil Hirsch, becoming his successor in Chicago. Feb. 26, 1903, he was elected to the presidency of Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati. From the time of his arrival in America, Kohler actively espoused the cause of Reform Judaism; he was one of the youngest members of the Philadelphia Jewish Rabbinical Conference of 1869, and in 1885 he convened the Pittsburgh Rabbinical Conference, which adopted the so-called Pittsburgh Platform, on which Reform Judaism in America stands. While in Chicago he introduced Sunday lectures as supplementary to the regular Sabbath service. Kohler served for many years as president of the New York Board of Ministers, and was honorary president of the Central Conference of American Rabbis
(Wikipedia, 2016) Der Grundriss der Gesamtwissenschaft res Judentums (The Foundation for a Whole Science of Judaism) was an encyclopedic scale project of the Society for the Advancement of Jewish Studies and was published in the years 1906-1935
The authors include(d) leading representatives of contemporary science of Judaism , including next Cohen Ismar Elbogen , Kaufmann Kohler and Samuel Krauss. (Wikipedia, 2016) . SUBJECT(S) : Jewish Theology, Jewish Ethics. Inside hinges starting, otherwise in very good condition. (Ger-50-17)
