Author: Jellinek, Adolph [1821-1893]
Title: Einleitung in die Thora : Fünf Reden [bound together with: "Das Gesetz Gottes ausser der Thora : Fünf Reden ..,.
Description: Wien, Herzfeld & Bauer,, 1866-1867. boards. 20x13cm, 72 + 83 pages. Later (recent) binder's blind boards.. Minor wear. Some light stains to cover. Good. ¶ This is a single volume containing two books by Adolph Jellinek bound together. Includes: 1) "Einleitung in die Thora : Fünf Reden" [Wien; Herzfeld & Bauer; 1866; 72pp]; 2) "Das Gesetz Gottes ausser der Thora : fü nf Reden nebst einer Rede über die Cholera / von Adolf Jellinek" [Wien; Herzfeld & Bauer; 1867; 83pp]. ["Adolf Jellinek ...Austrian rabbi and scholar. After filling clerical posts in Leipzig, he became a preacher at the Leopoldstädter Tempel in Vienna in 1856. He was associated with the promoters of the New Learning within Judaism, and wrote on the history of the Kabbalah....his most important work lay in three other directions: Midrashic, Psychological & Homelitic. Psychological: Before the study of ethnic psychology had become a science, Jellinek devoted attention to the subject. There is much keen analysis and original investigation in his two essays Der judische Stamm (1869) and Der judische Stamm in nicht-judischen Sprich-wörtern (1881-1882). It is to Jellinek that we owe the oft-repeated comparison of the Jewish temperament to that of women in its quickness of perception, versatility and sensibility; Homiletic: Jellinek was probably the greatest synagogue orator of the 19th century. He published some 200 sermons, in most of which are displayed unobtrusive learning, fresh application of old sayings, and a high conception of Judaism and its claims. Jellinek was a powerful apologist and an accomplished homilist, at once profound and ingenious...." -wikipedia.

Keywords: Judaica, Jewish Theology, Old Testament, Pentateuch, Biblical Commentary, History of Religion, Sermons, Homelitic, Torah, Judaism