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Dr. Samuel Gruenberg, Dozent am Rabbiner Seminar zu Berlin, Autograph on his book “Exegetische Beitraege”, 1933. - Dr. Samuel Gruenberg, Dozent am Rabbiner Seminar zu Berlin, Autograph on his book “Exegetische Beitraege”, 1933. Autograph in Hebrew on his book “Exegetische Beitraege”, 1933, in German and Hebrew Frankfurt a.M.: J. Kaufmann, 1933, [5]+36 pp., soft cover, Soft cover. Size: 23 x 15.5 cm., Condition: Brown fragile paper to cover chipped to edges, cover over taped; internally good condition Samuel Gruenberg (1879–1959), biblical scholar and communal worker. Gruenberg was born in Romania and in 1920 was appointed lecturer in Bible exegesis, history and geography of Palestine, and modern Hebrew at the Berlin rabbinical seminary. He was active in the Mizrachi movement and founded the Welt-Verband Shomre Shabbos, presiding over its founding congress in 1930. Gruenberg immigrated to Palestine in 1936 and then served as the chairman of the Mo'azah Datit (”religious council”) of Tel Aviv. With A.M. Silbermann he edited the ”Menorah”-Woerterbuch, a modern Hebrew-German, German-modern Hebrew dictionary (1920). Gruenberg's exegetical work appeared mainly as articles in German (collected under the title Exegetische Beitraege, 5 vols., 1924–33) and Hebrew (collected under the title Li-Feshuto shel Mikra, 1945). He also wrote Zur Geschichte der Bibelexegese I, Nordfranzoesische Klassiker der Bibelexegese (1928). Among his Hebrew works is Niẓẓanim (1906), a book of poetry. Gruenberg was the editor of the Hebrew section of Joseph *Wohlgemuth'sJeschurun, to which he contributed many studies. Das Rabbinerseminar zu Berlin (bis 1882: Rabbinerseminar fuer das Orthodoxe Judenthum) wurde 1873 von dem Rabbiner Esriel Hildesheimer gegründet und daher auch als Hildesheimer’sches Rabbinerseminar bekannt. Nach den Novemberpogromen 1938 wurde das Seminar von den nationalsozialistischen Behörden zwangsweise geschlossen. Bis zu diesem Zeitpunkt waren insgesamt ca. 600 Studenten aus ganz Europa dort ausgebildet worden.