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Heinrich Graetz Born 150 Years Ago Invited to Apply for the Post of Rabbi in Every Way I Lack Force of Manner, Soul ( Page Fifty THE JEWISH POST Thursday, April 11, 1968 Thursday, April 11, 1968 THE JEWISH POST Page Fifty-one as his rabhinical assistant; in order side of tradition. tinue. He wrote: "Of all position I instrument of such calibre, then to while away the tedium of the He obtained his degree and was am least adapted for that of rabbi; here am I ready for it, body and journey there he taught himself Heinrich Graetz Born 150 Years Ago invited to apply for the post of rabbi in every way I lack force of manner, soul. But the preaching!" Joyous Passover Greetings Greek. By AUBREY NEWMAN ten additions as well as several Graetz was boni the son of a Samson Raphael Hirsch, who applied in the community of Gleiwitz. When, an imposing presence. 'My knowl· He was saved from this fa·te, and He stayed with Hirsch for three BOSTON HAT WORKS" Lecturer in History at "popular" editions is enough to make butcher in a little village of Prus­ to Orthodox Judaism the prestige however, he ascended the pulpit to edge, too, is highly defective, hut instead became a teacher. Eventu­ DRY CLEANERS Leicester University any writer green with envy. sian Poland. He had the conven­ and authority of modern scholar­ years and then went to Breslau to deliver the Kol Nidre sermon, he my will is strong, energetic. If God's ally, in 1853, he was appointed lec­ acquire a university degree. Bres1au U But to do this in the field of Jew­ tional education of cheder and yesh­ ship. Graetz hecame one of his dried up and was unable to con- service can' 'be performed by an turer at the Jewish Theological Sperle • in Cleaning and Blocking was at that time split in hitter con­ T .ad'1I!' IIDd GeDt'B Hats To write thirteen volumes, each ish history at a time when the mar­ iva, and after bar mitzvah went to ardent disciples, and went to live SI'rninary at Breslau. The same ·year troversy between traditional and Passover Greetings to my Friends and Customers of five hundred pages, is no small ket for such history was much the Wollstein yeshiva where the he published the first of his thirteen 8aita Pawed ~U-Wait in his house at Aoldenhurg to serve Reform Judaism. Graetz. took the achievement. To he translated from smaller than today is even more principal, Rabbi lMunk. introduced PHONE 339·4612 volumes on Jewish history, "History PhOlle WBltebaIl 3-0188 566 MIIhl St. an original German into English, surprising. This was the outstand­ him to secular studies. of the Jews from the downfall of the t;:;:;;;;;;=;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;:;:~::;;;;;;;;;:;;;:;;;;;;;;;;;;;;, French, Hebrew iRussian and Yid- ing achievement of Heinrich Graetz, Graetz already had a phenomenal Our Most Cordial Passover Greetings and Very Best Wishes Western Repair Service Jewish State., to the completion of II for a Very Joyous Festival the Talmud." dish and to he reprinted in at least professor extraordinary. capacity for learning with a very REPAIRS TO ALL TYPES OF OFFICE EQUIPMENT' Sincere Passover Greetings good comprehension, a retentive AND SHIPPmG ROOM EQUIPMENT Creat Traveller Best Wishes for a Joyous Passover to all our Patrons and Friends memory, and an industry unim­ From then until his death he 71 Linerest Road worked incessantly. He rose at five paired by any lack of food and STA:N WALFOBD Winnipeg 17, Man. Fort Ignition Limited sleep. 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