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Simon Dubnow (1860–1941)

Author of History of the Jews in Russia and Poland

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Works by Simon Dubnow

History of the Jews (1931) 20 copies
Mein leben 2 copies
1903 - 1922 (2005) 1 copy

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A Golden Treasure of Jewish Literature (1937) — Contributor — 75 copies

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Legal name
Дубнов, Семён Маркович
Birthdate
1860-09-10
Date of death
1941-12-08
Gender
male
Nationality
Russia
Birthplace
Mstislavl, Russia
Place of death
Riga, Latvia
Places of residence
St. Petersburg, Russia
Berlin, Germany
Odessa, Ukraine
Occupations
historian
autobiographer
journalist
book reviewer
teacher
Short biography
Simon Dubnow was born to a Jewish family in Mstislavl (Mstsislaw), Russia, present-day Belarus, the son of a timber merchant and the grandson of a rabbinic scholar. After a traditional religious education, he persuaded his parents to allow him to attend a government school for young Jews in order to learn Russian and obtain a modern education. He became a dedicated secularist, much to the chagrin of his family. He was largely self-educated after that and became a journalist. He wrote book reviews and articles for various Russian Jewish journals in which he called for the legal emancipation of the Jews and their rights to self-administration, language, and education. By 1905, Dubnow had married and settled with his wife and children in St. Petersburg, where he taught at the Institute of Jewish Studies. Dubnow was the first modern historian to create a comprehensive World History of the Jewish People from the Earliest Times to the Present Day, a 10-volume work initially published in German. He had already translated Heinrich Graetz’s Volkstümliche Geschichte der Juden (English title: History of the Jews) into Russian in 1881. He later wrote an autobiography in which he reported, sometimes as an eyewitness, on key events in Jewish and general history. In 1922, Dubnow emigrated to Germany and settled in Berlin amid a prominent group of East European Jewish intellectuals. There he completed his magnum opus and his two-volume Geschichte des Chassidismus (History of Chassidism). After the founding in 1925 of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, in large part the creation of his ex-students and disciples, Dubnow became a loyal supporter. He also witnessed the rise of the Nazi regime to power in 1933, and felt forced to emigrate again. He decided to move to Riga, Latvia, a decision that would prove fatal following Nazi Germany's invasion in World War II. He was murdered in the Riga Ghetto by the Nazis and their accomplices.

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First Edition. Good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges rubbed as with age. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description: 429p ; 20 cm. Subjects: Jews Poland History. Jews Russia History. Genre: Biography.
 
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RedeemedRareBooks | Mar 16, 2024 |
"Sein Stil war kindgerecht, aber keinesfalls »kindlich«, sondern sprach auch Erwachsene an.

Im Jahr 1932 erschien in Berlin schließlich Dubnows
Idische geschichte derzejlt far kinder
. Marion Aptroot, Proessorin ür Jiddische Kultur, Sprache und Literatur
an der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldor, hat im Aurag des Leipziger Simon-
Dubnow-Instituts ür jüdische Geschichte und Kultur die von Jutta Schumacher
besorgte deutsche Übersetzung ediert und herausgegeben. Nun kann auch derdeutschsprachige Leser verolgen, wie Simon Dubnow jüdische Geschichte in
allgemeiner erzieherischer Absicht ür Kinder ormuliert hat und wie seine Forderungnach nationalkultureller Autonomie der Juden in einer an ein jugendliches Publikum
gerichteten Geschichtserzählung greiar wird. Zugleich bedeutet diese deutsche
Ausgabe der
Idische geschichte derzejlt far kinder
ür das Leipziger Institut einenweiteren wichtigen Schritt au dem Weg der geplanten vollständigen deutschen
Ausgabe des Œuvres seines Namensgebers, des großen jüdischen Historikers, derzugleich einer der bedeutendsten Historiker der Geschichte der Juden war."

Susanne Zepp Leipzig, im Herbst 2011.

Source: Vorwort zur deutschen Ausgabe, Page 9 in book.
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Paul_Levine_Library | Jun 3, 2020 |
The author was considered the greatest philosopher of Jewish culture, died in the Holocaust. Collection of his essays on the doctrine of spiritual autonomism
 
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Folkshul | Jan 15, 2011 |

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