Joseph Samuel Bloch

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Biography Bloch's parents, who were poor, destined him for the rabbinical career, and he devoted himself to the exclusive study of the Talmud. He frequented the yeshivot, especially that of Rabbi Josef Saul Nathanson at Lemberg, who, in his response, mentions Bloch, when he was only fifteen years old, as one of his most intelligent pupils. After having finished his studies at the colleges (gymnasia) of Magdeburg and Liegnitz, he went to the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. Thence he went to the University of Zurich, where he obtained his degree of doctor of philosophy. He was appointed rabbi in Rendsburg, Holstein, afterward in Kobylin, Posen (Poznań), and Brüx, Bohemia; and finally he ended his rabbinical career in Floridsdorf, near Vienna. Antisemitism was endemic in Austria during the late 19th century and was taking political center-stage from the 1870s on. Taking advantage of this, August Rohling, a Professor of Theology at one of the German universities, published a book, Der Talmudjude (1871), which became a bestseller and was read by hundreds of thousands (one Catholic organization distributed 38,000 copies free of charge). It rehashed the worst medieval libels concerning alleged hateful and debased Talmudic teachings and Jewish religious practices. Rohling became famous, continued…Citește mai mult

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Joseph (Josef) Samuel Bloch (20 November 1850 in Dukla – 1923) was an Austrian rabbi and deputy of Polish descent.

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Works When in 1896 Christian socialism had gained a strong footing in parliament, and the government had commenced to recognize the Socialist party, Bloch was sacrificed and everything imaginable was done to prevent his re-election. Through the combined efforts of the government, the Christian-Socialist party, and the Polish club (party of Polish deputies), all of whom supported the election of the Jewish burgomaster of Kolomea, Bloch was defeated in his bid for re-election. He then devoted himself to journalism. Bloch published the following works:

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See also Ian Reifowitz, Imagining An Austrian Nation: Joseph Samuel Bloch and the Search for a Multiethnic Austrian Identity, 1846-1919 (East European Monographs; distributed by Columbia University Press, 2003).

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References This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; Reich, W. (1902). "Bloch, Josef Samuel". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 3. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 254. Bloch (1973), My Reminiscences, English translation of 1923 work Eisenberg, Das Geistige Wien

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"Ursprung und Entstehung des Buches Kohelet," Bamberg, 1872 "Studien zur Geschichte der Sammlung der Alt-Testamentlichen Litteratur," Leipsic, 1875 "Die Juden in Spanien," Leipzig, 1876 "Hellenistische Bestandtheile im Biblischen Kanon," 2d ed., Vienna, 1880 "Quellen und Parallelen zu Lessing's Nathan," 2d ed., Vienna, 1881 "Jean Bodin, ein Vorläufer Lessing's," Vienna, 1882 "Drei Streitschriften Gegen Prof. Rohling," Vienna, 1882–83 "Die Arbeiter bei Griechen, Römern, und Palestinensern," Vienna, 1882 "Elementarschule, oder Erziehungswesen bei den Alten Völkern," Vienna, 1883 "Armenpflege und Heimatsrecht, eine Social-Talmud. Studie," Vienna, 1884 "Einblicke in die Geschichte der Entstehung der Talmudischen Literatur," Vienna, 1884 "Aus der Vergangenheit für die Gegenwart," Vienna, 1886 "Acten und Gutachten im Processe Rohling-Bloch," Vienna, 1892 "Open Letter to My Esteemed Colleagues of the Italian Parliament," London, 1895 (published also in Italian and German) "Talmud und Judenthum in der Oesterreichischen Volksvertrebung," Vienna, 1900 (parliamentary speeches). "Erinnerungen aus meinem Leben", Vienna and Leipzig, 1922

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External links Bloch, Josef Samuel at JewishEncyclopedia.com (in German) [1] Digitized works by Joseph Samuel Bloch at the Leo Baeck Institute, New York