Goldschmidt Dr a M (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. In German. 286. (1) pages. 190 x 134 mm. Leaves are untrimmed. 13 mm of top blank margin of first title page trimmed. Jost was a German historian who worked as a teacher, turning down Jacobson, who offered him a preacher's position. Jost believed modern Judaism needed not a reform of the services, but an improvement of education.His 3 volume work Geschichte des Judenthums und seiner Sekten (Leipsig, 1857-1859) deals with the whole of Jewish history down to 1858. His best work is in the presentation of modern Jewish history, in which he is singularly exact and conscientious, and to which he gives an exhaustive literature of sources; here he exhibits not only a fine discernment of what is historically important, but a spirit of fairness which is the more creditable because he wrote in the midst of the struggle for Reform.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. In German. 232 pages. 19 x 13 cm. Pages browned. Zwoelftes Jahr: 1866 - 1867 Die seiten sind etwa gebräunt. Ansonsten befindet sich das Exemplar in einem guten Zustand.

Paperback. Condition: New.