Adolf Lewin was a German

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and

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. He was born in Pinne,

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on 23 September 1843. Lewin was educated at the Jewish Theological Seminary and at the

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. In 1872 he was appointed rabbi in Koźmin, later in

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, and in 1886 was called to the rabbinate of

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. He died in 1910.

Publications

*"Die Religionsdisputation R. Jehiels", a prize essay (Breslau, 1869); *"Die Makkabäische Erhebung", a dissertation (ib. 1870); *"Zur Judenfrage: Naturwissenschaft oder Judenhass" (ib. 1880); *"Der Judenspiegel des Dr. Justus, ins Licht der Wahrheit gerückt", Magdeburg 1884 *"Juden in Freiburg-im-Breisgau" (Treves, 1890); *"Das Judenthum und die Nichtjuden" (ib. 1891); *"Geschichte, Geographie, und Reiselitteratur der Juden" (in Winter and Wünsche, "Die Jüdische Litteratur", ii. 287–473).

References

* *Nachruf in der Zeitschrift "Ost und West" 1910, Heft 5 (Mai), S. 336/337 {{DEFAULTSORT:Lewin, Adolf 1843 births 1910 deaths People from Pniewy 19th-century German rabbis People from the Grand Duchy of Posen