Louis Ginzberg

Louis Ginzberg (born November 28, 1873 in Kovno , Russian Empire , † November 11, 1953 in New York ) was a leading conservative Jewish scholar in the United States .

Life

He studied in Berlin , Strasbourg and Heidelberg and was awarded a Dr. phil. doctorate and went to the USA in 1899. Ginzberg was an employee of the Jewish Encyclopedia and from 1902 professor of Talmud and rabbinical science at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. He taught there for over fifty years and wrote hundreds of books on Talmudic and rabbinic subjects throughout his life.

He was also the chairman of the American Academy for Jewish Learning.

Fonts (selection)

• The Haggadah with the Church Fathers. First part: The Haggadah in the pseudo-Hieronymian "Quaestiones". Amsterdam 1899 (dissertation, Heidelberg University, July 14, 1899; archive.org ).
  • The Haggadah with the Church Fathers and in the Apocryphal literature. Calvary, Berlin 1900 (book trade edition of the dissertation).
• Geonica. 2 volumes. Jewish Theological Seminary of America, New York 1909 ( Volume 2  - Internet Archive ).
• Yerushalmi Fragments from the Genizah. Text with various readings from the Editio Princeps. Jewish Theological Seminary of America, New York 1909.
• The Legends of the Jews. 6 volumes and an index volume. Jewish Publication Society of America, Philadelphia 1909–1938 (digital copies : urn : nbn: de: hebis: 30: 1-148663 ).
  • The Legends of the Jews German. The Jewish stories about the Bible . German translation with editing of the comments by Jürgen Voos, 4 volumes, 2017 ( 1  - Internet Archive , 2  - Internet Archive , 3  - Internet Archive , 4  - Internet Archive )
• An unknown Jewish sect. In: Monthly for the history and science of Judaism. Vol. 56 (1912), H. 6, pp. 664-689 ( digitized version ); expanded as a monograph: self-published, New York 1922.
• Midrash and Haggadah (= Genizah studies. Vol. 1; Texts and studies of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Vol. 7). Hermon, New York 1928.

literature

• Eli Ginzberg: Louis Ginzberg. Keeper of the Law. Jewish Publication Society of America, Philadelphia 5726 = 1966.
• Jewish Lexicon . Vol. II., Berlin 1927.
• John F. Oppenheimer (Red.) And a .: Lexicon of Judaism . 2nd Edition. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh u. a. 1971, ISBN 3-570-05964-2 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Louis Ginzberg in the catalog of the German National Library