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Name
  
Adolf Kurrein


Education
  
University of Vienna

Adolf Kurrein Prof Dr Rabbi Adolf Kurrein

Died
  
October 23, 1919, Teplice, Czech Republic

Adolf Kurrein (January 28, 1846 – October 23, 1919) was a Czech-Austrian rabbi, Zionistic activist.

Adolf Kurrein Prof Dr Rabbi Adolf Kurrein

He received his doctor's degree from the University of Vienna. He was rabbi of St. Pölten (in 1872), of Zinz (from 1876 to 1882), of Bielitz (from 1882 to 1888), and in the last-named year was called in the same capacity to Teplitz.

Kurrein is a disciple of Adolf Jellinek. Besides several collections of sermons, entitled respectively "Maggid Mereshit" (1880); "Maggid le-Adam" (1882); "Patriarchenbilder: I., Abraham" (1893), he is the author of the following pamphlets:

  • "Die Frau im Jüdischen Volke" (1885; 2d ed., Bilin, 1901)
  • "Traum und Wahrheit", a biography of Joseph (1887)
  • "Arbeit und Arbeiter" (1890)
  • "Die Sociale Frage im Judentume" (1890)
  • "Die Pflichten des Besitzes" (1892)
  • "Der Friede" (1892)
  • "Das Kaddisch" (1896)
  • "Der Grabstein" (1897)
  • "Judäa und Rom" (1898)
  • "Bibel, Heidentum, und Heidenbekehrung" (1899; 2d. ed., 1901)
  • "Brauchen die Juden Christenblut?" (1900)
  • "Lichtstrahlen aus den Reden Jellinek's", prepared by him for Jellinek's 70th birthday.

    • Kurrein edited the monthly "Jüdische Chronik" from 1894 to 1896 with S. Stern and I. Ziegler, and from 1897 to 1902 alone. During the last 4 years this periodical has advocated Zionism.

    He was a contributor of the Jewish Encyclopedia.

    References

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