Bidspirit auction | (AMERICAN-JUDAICA) Emanuel Schreiber. Abraham Geiger:


(AMERICAN-JUDAICA) Emanuel Schreiber. Abraham Geiger: The Greatest Reform Rabbi of the Nineteenth Century. Frontispiece photographic portrait. pp. xii, 111. Original printed wrappers, spine taped, few edges chipped. Lg. 8vo. Singerman 4430. Spokane, Washington: 1892 This monograph views Abraham Geiger (1810-74) as the founding father of Reform Judaism. The author, Rabbi Emanuel Schreiber (1852-1932), was born in Leipnik, Moravia and migrated to the United States in 1881 accepting the call to serve the rabbinate in Mobile, Ala. He went on to serve a further seven congregations in cities across the country. This monograph views Abraham Geiger (1810-74) as the founding father of Reform Judaism. The author, Rabbi Emanuel Schreiber (1852-1932), was born in Leipnik, Moravia and migrated to the United States in 1881 accepting the call to serve the rabbinate in Mobile, Ala. He went on to serve a further seven congregations in cities across the country.