Der Israelitische Volkslehrer ed. by Leopold Stein, Fuenfter Jahrgang, 1855, in German,
Holocaust litho Ex libris Editor: Leopold Stein, Rabbi of Frankfurt am Main.
The Israelite Teacher. Fifth Year 1855 Ein Organ fuer Synagoge, Schule, Leben und Wissenschaft des Judenthums.
Frankfurt am Main,
Franz Benjamin Aussarth 1855, VIII+440 + 78 (Beilage) pages.
Holocaust Litho Ex Libris by Aaron Fastovsky FASTOVE, signed in the plate. Half leather hardcover, 21 x 13.5 cm.
Condition: cover worn, rubbed, chipped to edges; ex-librarie stamps; damping and foxing stains to most of pages;
Scribbles to last endpapers.
Weight: 440 gr.
Ex-librarie stamps Comité zur Förderung der Arbeiten in Palästina Hindustan Library, Jerusalem" Craft School»
Leopold Stein German rabbi; born in Burgpreppach Nov. 3, 1810; died at Frankfort-on-the-Main Dec. 2, 1882. After finishing his earlier education at Erlangen and Bayreuth, he attended (1830) the University of Wuerzburg. In 1833 he delivered his first sermon in Frankfort, in which he pleaded for the introduction of reforms; two years later he became rabbi of Burg and Altenkunstadt (Franconia); and from 1844 to 1862, when he withdrew from public life, he was rabbi at Frankfort-on-the-Main. He was especially prominent as one of the leaders of the Reform movement. With Dr. S. Suesskind, Stein was editor of "Der Israelitische Volkslehrer" (1860-69); he edited also the year-book "Achawa," published by the Lehrerverein. His works include the following: "Stufengesänge," poems, Würzburg, 1834; "Gebete und Gesänge zum Gebrauche bei der Oeffentlichen Andacht," Erlangen, 1840; "Koheleth," Frankfort-on-the-Main, 1846; "Die Rabbiner-Versammlung: ein Wort zur Verständigung," ib. 1846; "Der Eid More Judaico," ib. 1847; "Lehre und Gebot," ib. 1858; "Die Hasmonäer, ib. 1859; "Gebetbuch für Israelitische Gemeinden: nach dem Ritus der Haupt-Synagoge zu Frankfurt-am-Main," ib. 1860; "Mein Dienstverhältniss zum Israelitischen Gemeindevorstande zu Frankfurt-am-Main, Actenmässig zur Begründung Meiner Amtsniederlegung Dargestellt," ib. 1861; "Haus Ehrlich," a drama in five acts, Leipsic, 1863 (performed at Mannheim); "Der Knabenraub von Karpentras," Berlin 1863; "Sinai, die Worte des Ewigen Bundes," a didactic poem, Frankfort-on-the-Main, 1868; "Die Schrift des Lebens," the contents of the Jewish religion, ib. 1868: "Torath-Chajim," the Jewish religious law, Strasburg, 1877; "Der Geklärte Judenspiegel," 1882. He likewise composed for the Reform ritual the song "Tag des Herrn," to be sung to the music of "Kol Nidre" on the eve of the Day of Atonement.
Holocaust Litho Ex Libris by Aaron Fastovsky FASTOVE, signed in the plate. His Ex libris was mounted on BOOKS which were rescued, saved and recovered from the HOLOCAUST FLAMES and RUINS by the "JCR" (JEWISH CULTURAL RECONSTRUCTION)
Aaron Fastovsky FASTOVE (1898-1979) DESCRIPTION : This JEWISH-HEBREW bookplate was designed and published ca 1947, Right at the end of the period of the WWII and the HOLOCAUST in the Amercan Zone of GERMANY and in the USA By the "JEWISH CULTURAL RECONSTRUCTION, INC. (JCR)" (JCR), organization established in 1947 to deal with the collection and redistribution of heirless Jewish cultural property in the American Zone of Germany, centered in Offenbach and later in Wiesbaden. Its headquarters were in New York and its logistical and financial support came from the Jewish Restitution Successor Organization (JRSO). This EXLIBRIS, with its illustration and BLUE MAGEN DAVID (Also DAVID STAR or DAVID SHIELD or DAVID SHIELD OF ARMS) was mounted on BOOKS which were rescued, saved and recovered from the HOLOCAUST FLAMES and RUINS by the "JCR". The JEWISH artist of RUSSIAN descent who created this bookplate is signed in the plate - Aaron FASTOVE (Fastovsky).