Bidspirit auction | Rabbi Sigmund Gelbhaus. Religioese Stroemungen

Rabbi Sigmund Gelbhaus. Religioese Stroemungen in Judaea waehrend und nach der Zeit des babylonischen Exils, 1st ed.,1913, in German Leipzig 1913, 65 pp., with KKL (JNF) stamp on title page. soft cover, 20.5 x 15 cm. Condition: Stains to cover, spine damaged; missing right corner to title page; couple of stains inside. Weight: 110 gr. Rabbi Dr. Sigmund Gelbhaus (Joshua Samuel ; c. 1850–1928), East European rabbi and writer. Gelbhaus was born in Tysmienica (Galicia) and served as rabbi in Karlovac (Karlstadt, Croatia), Nordhausen (Germany), Prague, and Vienna. In Vienna he also lectured at the Israelitische-Theological Lehranstalt and at the Hebrew Paedagogium. A prolific writer, he published numerous articles, books, and translations into Hebrew. Among them are Rabbi Judah Hanassi and the Redaction of the Mishnah (1876), Middle High German Poetry in its Relation to Biblical-Rabbinic Literature (3 vols., 1889–93), Ezra and his Reformatory Endeavors (1903), Religious Currents in Judea during and after the time of the Babylonian Exile (1912), and The Metaphysics of Spinoza's Ethics in the Light of the Sources of Kabbalah (1917)