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Judischer Almanach auf das Jahr 5691 (1930/1931), KKL (JNF), illustr., Prague, 1st ed., , in German, Jewish Litho Ex libris - Judischer Almanach auf das Jahr 5691 (1930/1931), KKL (JNF), illustr., Prague, 1st ed., , in German, Jewish Litho Ex libris Editors: Friedrich Thieberger, Felix Weltsch, Keren Kajemeth (1931), Prague., 252 pp., including advertisments. many b/w illustration; illustrated lithographed cover and frontispiece by Ludwig Hermann. Jewish Calendar at the beginning Bound in hard cover, original soft cover saved, size: 21.5 x 15.5 cm. Condition: ex-library stamps; yellow paper; good condition. Weight: 500 gr. Friedrich Thieberger (born November 12, 1888 in Goltsch-Jenikau, Austria-Hungary; died May 30, 1958 in Jerusalem) was a Czechoslovak-Israeli religious philosopher and Judaist, publicist, translator, and author of works with Jewish themes. Friedrich Thieberger came from a rabbinical family and was the son of the Prague rabbi Dr. Karl Thieberger. In 1907, he completed his schooling at St. Stephen's Gymnasium in Prague.[1] He then studied German under August Sauer, as well as philosophy and philology, at Charles University in Prague, receiving his doctorate. Franz Kafka received Hebrew lessons from Thieberger, with whom he had struck up a conversation in a bookstore at the end of 1912, from 1914 to the autumn of 1917.[2] Thieberger's sisters, Gertrude, later a poet and married to Johannes Urzidil in 1922, and Nelly Thieberger, became friends with the young writer. After completing his studies, Thieberger worked as a professor of modern languages at German high schools in Czechoslovakia. Thieberger was actively involved in Jewish life in Prague, but was Zionist-oriented and not a member of Orthodox Judaism.[5] From 1926 to 1938, he edited the monthly magazine of B'nai B'rith for Czechoslovakia. In 1939, he went to Palestine and became rector of the Hebrew University there. He also translated some of Josef Klausner's works into German. Thieberger's literary and scholarly legacy is now housed in the National Library of Israel. Felix Weltsch (6 October 1884, Prague – 9 November 1964, Jerusalem) was a German-speaking Jewish librarian, philosopher, author, editor, publisher and journalist. A close friend of Max Brod, Ludwig Winder and Franz Kafka, he was one of the most important Zionists in Bohemia. Born in Prague (then in Austria-Hungary), Weltsch studied Law and Philosophy at the Charles University. He lived and worked in Prague until 15 March 1939, and left the city with Max Brod and his family on the last train out of Czechoslovakia. In what at his arrival was Palestine and later the state of Israel, he worked as a librarian in Jerusalem until his death in 1964. He had one daughter, Ruth Weltsch (1920–1991), with his wife Irma Herz (1892–1969). They married in August 1914. The publisher, journalist and Zionist Robert Weltsch was Felix Weltsch's cousin, and the Prague-born concert pianist Alice Herz-Sommer, who performed in and survived Theresienstadt at her death the world's oldest Holocaust survivor, was his sister-in-law. His grandson, Eli Gorenstein is an actor, cellist and among Israel's leading voice dubbers. Weltsch's works deal with the subjects of Ethics, Politics and Philosophy. For his ethical and political publications he received the Ruppin-Prize from the city of Haifa in 1952. His most important work was the Jewish-Zionist weekly paper Selbstwehr (self-defense), which he led from 1919 until 1938. With this work and hundreds of articles he became one of the most important personalities in Jewish life next to Martin Buber, Chaim Weizmann and Hugo Bergmann, his early school friend.