David Cassel

David Cassel (born March 7, 1818 in Glogau , † January 22, 1893 in Berlin ) was a German educator and Hebraist .

Live and act

Cassel researched and taught at the University for the Science of Judaism in Berlin, he wrote several textbooks and dictionaries. With Moritz Steinschneider he was involved in the planning of a real encyclopedia of Judaism in 1844 . Since 1857 he was a member of the Society of Friends . Until 1886 Cassel was a member of the teaching staff of the Berlin Beth Hamidrash at Heidereutergasse 4.

tomb

His grave is in the Jewish cemetery in Berlin-Weißensee .

Works

Sabbath hours for the instruction and edification of Israelite youth , 1868 (reprinted as second edition, Berlin 1920).
Hebrew-German dictionary. Tenth edition, Breslau 1920.

Individual evidence

^ Otmar Seemann : Incompletely published lexicons and encyclopedias. An addendum to war: MNE. In: Karl H. Pressler (Ed.): From the Antiquariat. Volume 8, 1990 (= Börsenblatt für den Deutschen Buchhandel - Frankfurter Ausgabe. No. 70, August 31, 1990), pp. A 329 - A 334, here: p. A 332.
↑ The architectural and art monuments of the GDR, Berlin, I ; Ed. Institute for Monument Preservation at Henschelverlag, p. 142; Berlin 1984

literature

Jeannette Strauss Almstad, Matthias Wolfes : David Cassel. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 18, Bautz, Herzberg 2001, ISBN 3-88309-086-7 , Sp. 303-308. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
Konrad von Rabenau : Cassel, David. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 167 ( digitized version ).
John F. Oppenheimer (Red.) And a .: Lexicon of Judaism. 2nd Edition. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh u. a. 1971, ISBN 3-570-05964-2 , col. 140.
Cassel, David. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 5: Carmo – Donat. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-22685-3 , pp. 32-38.

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personal data
SURNAME	Cassel, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German historian and rabbi
DATE OF BIRTH	March 7, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH	Glogau
DATE OF DEATH	January 22, 1893
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Otmar Seemann : Incompletely published lexicons and encyclopedias. An addendum to war: MNE. In: Karl H. Pressler (Ed.): From the Antiquariat. Volume 8, 1990 (= Börsenblatt für den Deutschen Buchhandel - Frankfurter Ausgabe. No. 70, August 31, 1990), pp. A 329 - A 334, here: p. A 332.

[2] The architectural and art monuments of the GDR, Berlin, I ; Ed. Institute for Monument Preservation at Henschelverlag, p. 142; Berlin 1984