Buy this book on-line (Jt) Krauss, Samuel : ZUR ORGELFRAGEWien : Verlag Des Wiener Jüdischen Organisationskomitees, 1919
Later Boards. 8vo. 32 pages. 23 cm. First edition. In German. 'The Organ Question. ' Zur Orgelfrage (1919) , an essay on the contemporary problem of the use of the organ in the synagogue, in which Krauss adopts a Conservative stance. Samuel Krauss (1866–1948) , “historian, philologist, and talmudic scholar. Born in Ukk, Hungary, Krauss studied at Papa Yeshivah and at the Budapest rabbinical seminary and university. From 1894 to 1906 Krauss taught Bible and Hebrew at the Jewish teachers' seminary in Budapest. In 1906 he began to teach Bible, history, and liturgy at the Israelitisch-Theologische Lehranstalt in Vienna. It was due to his efforts that the college did not succumb to financial difficulties after World War I. He traveled widely for his archaeological and historical research. Krauss was appointed head of the seminary in 1932 and rector in 1937. Krauss founded the Vienna Verein fuer juedische Geschichte und Literatur, and was active in many communal institutions. During the Kristallnacht in November 1938, the Nazis destroyed his valuable library and papers, and he fled to England, joining his daughter in Cambridge, where he remained until his death. ” - EJ 2008. Subjects: Synagogue music - History and criticism. Organ (Musical instrument) . Synagogues - History. Synagogue music. Synagogues. Criticism, interpretation, etc. OCLC lists 25 copies. Pages aged, browned, otherwise clean and fresh. Good condition. (GER-44-38) Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of (Jt) Krauss, Samuel : ZUR ORGELFRAGE. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including atlases, collectables, used books, livres rares and rare books. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |