Bidspirit auction | Die “Richtlinien zu einem Programm

Die “Richtlinien zu einem Programm fur das liberale Judentum” von J. Wohlgemuth, 1st ed., 1913, in German Versprochen von Dr. Joseph Wohlgemuth, Dozent am Rabbinerseminar zu Berlin Frankfurt a. M., Verlag des Israelit, 80 pp., soft cover, size: 19 x 13 cm. Condition: staining and chipping to cover, front cover detached; some stains internally, mainly to first and last pages. Weight: 100 gr. Joseph Wohlgemuth (1867–1942), rabbi, educator, and theologian. Wohlgemuth, born in Memel, as a child moved with his family to Hamburg, where his grandfather, Isaiah Wohlgemuth, became stipendiary rabbi (Klausrabbiner). Wohlgemuth studied at the Berlin Rabbinical Seminary and at the university, teaching at the same time and for many years afterward at the Adass Yisroel religious school. In 1895 he was appointed tutor and lecturer in religious philosophy, homiletics, and practical halakhah at the seminary, where he exercised considerable influence on several generations of students for the Orthodox rabbinate. In 1932 broken health forced him to retire to a sanatorium in Frankfurt.