Bidspirit auction | Dr. Leo Baeck “Maimonides, der

Dr. Leo Baeck “Maimonides, der Mann, sein Werk und seine Wirkung”, 1st ed., 1954, in German - Dr. Leo Baeck “Maimonides, der Mann, sein Werk und seine Wirkung”, 1st ed., 1954, in German Vortrag anlaesslich der Gedenkfeier zur 750. Wiederkehr des Todestages des grossen Gelehrten Moses Maimonides am 7. Juli 1954 in Düsseldorf, 31 Zentralrat der Juden in Deutschland, 1954., 31 pp., dedication on front endpaper, 1955 Hard cover, size: 21 x 15 cm. Condition: damping stains to cover; minor stains Leo Baeck (23 May 1873 – 2 November 1956) was a 20th-century German rabbi, scholar, and theologian. He served as leader of Reform Judaism in his native country and internationally, and later represented all German Jews during the Nazi era. After the Second World War, he settled in London, in the United Kingdom, where he served as the chairman of the World Union for Progressive Judaism. In 1955, the Leo Baeck Institute for the study of the history and culture of German-speaking Jewry was established, and Baeck was its first international president. The Leo Baeck Medal has been awarded since 1978 to those who have helped preserve the spirit of German-speaking Jewry in culture, academia, politics, and philanthropy Moses ben Maimon, commonly known as Maimonides and also referred to by the Hebrew acronym Rambam,[c] was a Sephardic Jewish rabbi who is widely acknowledged as one of the most prolific and influential Torah scholars of the Middle Ages. Originally from Córdoba, where he was born on Passover Eve of 1135 or 1138,[d] his family was exiled from Muslim-ruled Spain when they refused to convert to Islam shortly after the Almohad Caliphate conquered the Almoravid Caliphate in 1148. Over the course of the next two decades, Maimonides resided in Fez, Acre, Jerusalem, Alexandria, and Cairo before finally settling in Fustat between 1168 and 1171. During this period, he advanced his vocations and became renowned for his achievements as an astronomer, philosopher, and physician—even being appointed to serve as personal physician to Saladin of the Ayyubid Sultanate.