Adolf Lewin was a German
rabbi
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and
author
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. He was born in
Pinne,
Grand Duchy of Posen
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on 23 September 1843. Lewin was educated at the
Jewish Theological Seminary and at the
University of Breslau
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. In 1872 he was appointed rabbi in
Koźmin, later in
Coblenz
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, and in 1886 was called to the rabbinate of
Freiburg im Breisgau
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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
External links
* ''Jewish Encyclopedia''
“Lewin, Adolf”by Isidore Singer & Meyer Kayserling (1906). Now in public domain.
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1843 births
1910 deaths
People from Pniewy
19th-century German rabbis
People from the Grand Duchy of Posen