1881 Der Midrasch Buche Esther August Wunsche Midrash Song Of Songs Leipzig
Description: This is the 102 page, original, first edition, German translation of the Midrash Rabbah on The Megillah called The Book Of Esther of the Ketubim part of the Old Testament Bible. (74 pages are the actual translation and 28 more pages are the very important Notes and Corrections section by Rabbi Dr. Julius Furst) This was the first time it was ever translated into the German language. By Lic. Dr. August Wunsche, a very well respected German Hebraist and teacher. The title page reads: Der Midrasch Zum Buche Esther Zum Ersten Male Ins Deutsche Ubertragen von Lic. Dr. August Wunsche. It has notes in the back, with the title 'Noten und Verbesserungen von Rabbiner Dr. J. Furst und dem Ubersetzer'. (Noted in the text.). Notes and Corrections by Rabbi Dr. J. Furst and the translator
Condition: Pages are nice, no writing in interior, comes without covers. This is the entire translation of the Song of Songs into German. Rare.
About The Author
Karl August Wünsche 1838-1912, was born in Hainewalde bei Zittau and died in Dresden. He was a German Christian Hebraist. He devoted his attention almost exclusively to rabbinic literature. After completing his commentaries on the Book of Hosea (1868) and Book of Joel (1872), he wrote Neue Beiträge zur Erläuterung der Evangelien aus Talmud und Midrasch (1878), the most complete collection of the parallel passages of the Talmud and the New Testament since the works of John Lightfoot and Johann Christian Schöttgen. In his Bibliotheca Rabbinica (Leipzig, 1880–85) he made a German translation of the whole of the Midrash Rabbah and the Midrash to the Five Megillot, and he also translated haggadic portions of the Jerusalem Talmud (1880) and of the Babylonian Talmud (1886–89), as well as the Pesiḳta (1885) and the Midrash to the Psalms (1891). Together with Jakob Winter he compiled the Geschichte der Jüdischen Litteratur (3 vols., Leipzig, 1892–95).
About the Editor: Julius Fürst (1805 Żerków, South Prussia – 1873, Leipzig), born Joseph Alsari, was a Jewish German orientalist. Fürst was a distinguished scholar of Semitic languages and literature. During his years as professor in the department of oriental languages and literature at the University of Leipzig (1864–1873), he wrote many works on literary history and linguistics.
At an early age, Fürst had a remarkable knowledge of Hebrew literature, Old Testament scriptures and oriental languages. In 1825, after having studied at Berlin, where Hegel and Neander were among his teachers, he took a course in Jewish theology at Posen. In 1829, after having abandoned his Jewish orthodoxy, he went to Breslau, and in 1831 to Halle. Here he took his degree in oriental languages and theology under Gesenius in 1832.
In 1833 he became a journalist in Leipzig, later securing a position as tutor and lecturer (privat-docent) in the university there (lecturing on Chaldaic, Syriac, Hebrew grammar and literature, Biblical exegesis, etc.), from which position he was promoted in 1864 to professor of oriental languages and literature. He filled this post until his death, and during his tenure there he was also elected to several scientific societies. As one of the exponents of the University of Leipzig's academic scholarly milieu throughout his adult life he was also a contemporary, a friend, and a sometimes collaborator of Leipzig's own native Lutheran scholar and professor Franz Delitsch,.Fürst was 8 years Delitsch's senior. Fürst was chief editor of Der Orient (Leipzig 1840-1851), a periodical dedicated to scientific study of the language, literature and history of the Jews.
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