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Cassel, Paulus : IL VELTRO, DER RETTER UND RICHTER IN DANTE'S HOLLE. EIN SENDSCHREIBEN AN REINHOLD KOEHLER

Berlin, 1890

Hardcover, 57 pages, 8vo. In German. SUBJECT (S) : Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 -- Characters -- Veltro. "Der literarischen sendschreiben nr. 4." Other Titles: Veltro, der retter und richter in Dante's Holle. Cassel (1821-1892) was a "German theologian and historian and the brother of David Cassel. Cassel took rabbinical studies as well as philosophy and history in Berlin, the latter in particular under Leopold von Ranke. He wrote a study of Jewish history from the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 to 1847 for the Allgemeine Encyklopaedie der Wissenschaften und Kuenste. From 1850 to 1856 Cassel was editor of the Erfurter Zeitung. After his conversion to Christianity in 1855 he was appointed librarian at the Royal Library and secretary of the Erfurt Academy of Sciences. In 1866 and 1867 he was returned as conservative member to the Prussian Landtag. From 1868 to 1891 he was mainly concerned with his duties as preacher at the Christuskirche in Berlin and as a missionary for the London Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jews. However he combated antisemitic allegations and directed a pamphlet against the anti-Jewish literary campaign of Heinrich von Treitschke. He also responded to the antisemitic charges made by E. Von Hartmann, A. Stoecker, and Richard Wagner, and published a brochure entitled Die Anti-semiten und die evangelische Kirche. In the field of biblical research he wrote on the Books of Judges and Ruth, Esther, and on the Targum Sheni to Esther" (Michael in EJ, 2007) . OCLC lists 1 copy worldwide (Harvard) . Ex-libaray. Hinge repair. Stained and browning to edges of pages. Edges and corners of cover chipped. Staining to cover. Otherwise, very good condition. (Rab-35-1)

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