GRABREDEN GEHALTEN BEIM LEICHENBEGÄNGNISSE DES HERRN J.S. HALBERSTAM IN BIELITZ, AM 26. MÄRZ 1900
Wien, Buchdruckerei "industrie" 1900. Item #38224
First edition. Original paper wrappers. 12 mo. 32 pages; 20 cm. Written in German. Title translates to “Sermons Held at the Funeral of Mr. J. S. Halberstam in Bielsko, on the 26th of March 1900.” Includes black-and-white tissued photograph of Halberstam. Addresses by M. Steiner, S. Horovitz, N. Glaser, J. Günzig, and L. Dobschütz. The author, here writing a eulogy for his father, has his own portrait featured in the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia. “In 1890 [Solomon Joachim] Halberstam issued a complete catalog of his manuscripts (411 items) under the title Kehillat Shelomoh. The greater part of them was acquired by Montefiore College, Ramsgate, England, while his large collection of printed books, and a considerable number also of manuscripts, was bought by Mayer Sulzberger and presented to the library of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America....Bielsko (German: Bielitz, Czech: Bílsko) was until 1950 an independent town situated in Cieszyn Silesia….According to the Austrian census of 1910 the town had 18,568 inhabitants. The census asked people for their native language: 15,144 (84.3%) were German-speaking, 2,568 (14.3%) were Polish-speaking and 136 (0.7%) were Czech-speaking. Jews were not allowed to declare Yiddish, and most of them thus declared German as their native language. The most populous religious groups were Roman Catholics with 10,378 (55.9%), followed by Protestants with 4,955 (26.7%) and the Jews with 3,024 (16.3%).The vast majority of the Jews were exterminated by Nazis during World War II, and the German population was expelled by the Soviets after the war under the terms demanded by Stalin at the Potsdam Conference” (Wikipedia). SUBJECT(S) : Sermons, Germany. OCLC and WorldCat list 3 holdings worldwide (Yale, HUC, National Library of Israel) . Very minimal markings. Good condition. (GER-51-66).
Price: $300.00