Twenty Festival Sermons (1897-1902): Festpredigten

The author, Isaac Rosenberg, received his semichah at the Rabbiner-Seminar (Hildesheimer) in Berlin in 1888, and graced the synagogue pulpit in the eastern German city of Thorn for twenty-fififive years. He belonged to a new class of rabbis known as "Rabbiner Doktor" – with Ph.D.s as well as rabbinic ordination. A leader in his community, Dr. Rosenberg delivered passionate sermons in impeccable High German – sermons that uplifted and inspired rather than rebuked. Yet they contain messages t...