Monday, June 21, 2010

The sad fate of the owner of a biography of Rabbi Akiva Eger.

Here is the title page of a copy of the 1875 book Vollständige Biographie des Rabbi Akiba Eger by Salomon Lewyson, which Google scanned from Harvard's library:


I was curious. Who was Hermann Scheftelowitz, teacher and cantor in Cosel? I couldn't find out much, but I did learn from this site that he was born in 1882 and died a WWI soldier in 1917. His name appears in the 1932 book Die jüdischen Gefallenen des deutschen Heeres.
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6 comments:

  1. Anonymous1:19 PM, June 22, 2010

    Do you know what Lehrer ? Kanter, Gosel O.-S. means?
    Thanks,
    Phil

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  2. S.1:29 PM, June 22, 2010

    I included it in the post.

    Lehrer = teacher
    Kantor - chazan
    Gosel O.-S. = Cosel, a place in Germany, also known as Kronprinz. I'm not sure what OS stands for, but it's probably a geographical identifier, like Frankurt AM (am Main) or Frankfurt AO (am Oder), which are the names of rivers which these two cities with the same names are located next to.

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  3. Anonymous5:07 PM, June 22, 2010

    There is a certain melancholy pathos in this post.

    DF

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  4. Joels W. 11:55 AM, October 07, 2010

    ah... all the jews who gave their lives for the faterland...all in vain. the heart cries.

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  5. mnovack6:53 AM, June 25, 2011

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  6. mnovack6:56 AM, June 25, 2011

    Hi. I live in Cosel (Koźle, in Polish). It was a small town in Germany until 1945. Now this is a part of city Kędzierzyn-Koźle in Poland, Opole voivodship. O.S. means Oberschlesien (Polish: Górny Śląsk), this is the name of historical region.

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