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Caesar Seligmann Collection. 1929-1950
No full textThis collection primarily contains sermon manuscripts by Rabbi Caesar Seligmann and his son Erwin Seligmann. There are two copies (with handwritten edits) of a 1950
sermon entitled "Elohenu Welohr Abothenu: Unser Gott und Gott Unser Vaeter"; this sermon was given by Rabbi Dr. Caesar Seligmann in his 89th year. Other titles of
sermon manuscripts that appear in the collection are: "Rede zur Eröffnung des Verbandstags des Preußischen Landesverbandes, am 3. Februar 1929" (1929);
"Grundlagen des Glaubens" (1930); and "Renaissance des Relgiös-Liberalen Judentums in Frankfurt am Main" by Erwin Seligmann. Accompanying these
sermon manuscripts is a program from The New Liberal Jewish Congregation in London with a memoriam for Rabbi Seligmann (1950), and a program from the Synagogue Review with a memoriam
for Rabbi Seligmann (1950).Rabbi of the Hauptgemeinde in Frankfurt am Mein from 1902 to 1939. A leading figure of German liberal Jewry, emigrated to England in 1939.The original German language inventory is available in the folder.Photographs removed to Photograph CollectionProcessed for digitizationSent for digitizationReturned from digitizationLinked to online manifestationdigitize
Caesar Seligmann (photograph) Portraits Men
No full textDigital ImageBorn 1860 in Landau/Pfalz. Died 1950
Mein Leben : Erinnerungen eines Grossvaters /
No full textMemoir by Caesar Seligmann, written between 1934-1941 in Frankfurt and London; description of Jewish life in Landau in the 19th century; early memories of his Jewish childhood and family life; recount of the Landau rabbinate elections in 1836 and the defeat of Seligmann's father, who later on became an instructor at the Jewish teachers' seminary in Kaiserslautern; genealogical account reaching back to Katzenellenbogen family and Saul Wahl, the "Jewish king of Poland"; childhood and school in Landau; memories of the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871); university studies in Munich and Breslau; anti-Semitic movement of Adolf Stoecker (1835-1909) and the Rohling affair in Austria; Juedisch-theologisches Seminar in Breslau; student associations (Liwiath Chen, Amicitia); descriptions of Heinrich Graetz, Leopold Zunz and Esriel Hildesheimer; assembly of German rabbis in Breslau in 1887; military service in 1887/88; graduating at the theological seminary in 1888; rabbi in Hamburg; lectures and research about the history of Judaism; religious education for the youth; marriage in 1892; cholera epidemic in Hamburg; rabbinic position in Frankfurt am Main in 1902; acquaintance with Bertha Pappenheim and encouraging the activities of Jewish women's organizations; Jewish dominated free masons' lodge (Bne Briss); crisis of liberal Judaism; internal conflicts between orthodox and liberal Judaism; reform of synagogue service and prayer book; new curriculum for Jewish schools; organization "Vereinigung fuer das liberale Judentum"; recollections of World War I; persecution of Jews in Frankfurt after 1933; November pogrom of 1938.Also included are an incomplete list of Seligmann's publications and a German translation of the last will of his great grandfather's father-in-law, rabbi Seligmann Puettlingen (-1767).Caesar Seligmann was born in Landau, Palatinate in 1860 and was a liberal rabbi in Hamburg (1889-1902) and Frankfurt am Main (1902-1937). Between 1912 and 1937 he was the president of the "Vereinigung fuer das liberale Judentum in Deutschland" (Union of Liberal Rabbis in Germany). In 1935 Caesar Seligmann became nominated "Doctor of Hebrew Law" by the Hebrew Union College (Cincinnati). He co-edited the liberal prayer book of the Frankfurt Jewish Community in 1929. Seligmann emigrated to England in 1939 and died there in 1950.Synopsis in fileBrief summary in Max Kreutzberger: "Leo Baeck Institute New York, Bibliothek und Archiv; Katalog": C 369Published in Joseph Walk: "Kurzbiographien zur Geschichte der Juden, 1918-1945": page 34
"Philister über dir, Judenthum!" : Rede gehalten am Versöhnungstage im israelitischen Tempel /
No full textCataloging11879 [Only Ed.] Dr. Caesar Seligmann, Philister ueber Dir : Rede, Hamburg,
Hermann Rothschild, 1900Only edition. 15 pages, 201:138 mm., wide margins, light age staining. A very
good copy bound in later half cloth boards.Dr. Caesar Seigmann (1860—1950), leader of Liberal Judaism in Germany. Born
in Landau, Seligmann was appointed preacher of the Liberal synagogue (Temple) in Hamburg in
1889, and from 1902 to 1939 he officiated as rabbi in Frankfort. In 1910 he published for
the Liberal synagogue (Western synagogue) a two-volume prayer book (Israelitisches
Gebetbuch, 2nd edition 1928) that was even more extreme than any proposed by the German Reform
movement to that date.One of the founders of the Vereinigung fuer das liberale Judentum in 1910,
he edited its organ, Liberales Judentum, which appeared from 1910 to 1922. In cooperation
with I. Elbogen and H. Vogelstein, he published in 1929 the "unified prayer book" restoring
to the Liberal rite many traditional prayers which had been previously excluded. His other
works include a collection of popular lectures, Judentum und moderne Weltanschauung (1905),
and a history of the Reform movement, Geschichte der juedischen Reformbewegung von
Mendelssohn bis zur Gegenwart (1922).When addressing the Liberal rabbis in Wiesbaden in 1937, on the occasion of
the 100th anniversary of the rabbinical conference convened by A. Geiger, Seligmann advised
his colleagues to become reconciled with Zionism. In 1939 he moved to London, where he lived
until his death. His autobiography, Mein Leben. Erinnerungen eines Grossvaters, was written
in 1941 but only one chapter was published.Source: EJDigital imageDescription based on print version record
Hagada : Liturgie für die häusliche Feier der Sederabende in deutscher Sprache
No full textneu bearbeitet von C. Seligmann. Mit Bildern aus einer handschriftlichen Amsterdamer Hagada vom Jahre 1738 ... und mit Kompositionen von M. Henle ... und Jacques Offenbach zum Teil nach den alten MelodienYaari, no. 1829.Aus der Sammlung des Leo Baeck Institute, digitalisiert in Kooperation mit dem Center for Jewish History, N
Das Buch der Weisheit des Jesus Sirach (Josua ben Sira) in seinem Verhältniss zur den salomonischen Sprüchen und seiner historischen Bedeutung
No full textHalle-Wittenberg, Univ., Diss., 1883von Caesar Seligman
Die Vertheidigungsrede der Religion und die Vertheidigungsrede des Judenthums : zwei Predigten gehalten am Neujahrsfeste und am Versöhnungstage im israelitischen Tempel zu Hamburg
No full textvon Caesar SeligmannAus der Sammlung des Leo Baeck Institute, digitalisiert in Kooperation mit dem Center for Jewish History, N
"Philister über dir, Judenthum!" : Rede gehalten am Versöhnungstage im israelitischen Tempel
No full textvon Caesar SeligmannAus der Sammlung des Leo Baeck Institute, digitalisiert in Kooperation mit dem Center for Jewish History, N
Julius Caesar, reception of
No full textThe reception of Caesar constitutes, for obvious reasons, an immense topic. As a political idea, Caesar exhibits from the very beginning a tension between his role as dictator and destroyer of the Republic and his standing as the political and military genius who founded the Empire. This contrariety, not least by way of the analytic category of Caesarism, is especially marked in the political discourse of the 19th and 20th centuries. Caesar’s literary reception, though influenced by contemporary political conflicts, is not always tethered to them in straightforward ways. The Caesar of literature is often a reaction to the Caesar of Shakespeare. And there are other important issues: Caesar as a problem in the recovery of authenticity, or Caesar, because he is a canonical author, as a symbol of the conservative claims of the established order. In art, Caesar the god and Caesar the chivalrous king gradually give way to Caesar the slain dictator or Caesar the imperious conqueror. In popular culture, however, Caesar’s manifestations vary wildly: although he continues to register at a political level, he can also signify imperial excess or martial prowess, and he is available as a medium for lampooning the various guises of his own reception.</p
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