Bidspirit auction | Ismar Elbogen, Holocaust survivor “Geschichte

Ismar Elbogen, Holocaust survivor “Geschichte Der Juden seit dem Untergang des judischen Staates”, 1920, in German Leipzig, Berlin, 1920, zweite Auflage, 126 pp. Hard cover, 18.5 x 12.5 cm. Condition: spine damaged, foxing to endpapers, brown paper/ Weight: 155 gr. Ismar Elbogen (September 1, 1874 – August 1, 1943) was a German rabbi, scholar and historian. Yitzhak Moshe (Itamar) Elbogen was born in Posen. He was taught by his uncle, Jacob Levy, author of the ”Neuhebraeisches Woerterbuch”, and then attended the gymnasium and the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau. He earned his doctorate from the Breslau University and was ordained as a rabbi in 1899.