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Adolf Jellinek

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “born in moravia”. Today it says “austrian rabbi and scholar”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Czech rabbi Adolph Jellinek, 1860”. It now reads “Austrian rabbi Adolph Jellinek, 1860”.
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ADOLF JELLINEK ( 1821 - 1893 ), Jewish preacher and scholar , was born in Moravia .1 After filling clerical posts in Leipzig , he became Prediger (preacher) in Vienna in 1856 .2 He was associated with the promoters of the New Learning within Judaism , and wrote on the history of the Kabbalah . His bibliographies (each bearing the Hebrew title Qontres) were useful compilations. But his most important work lay in three other directions, (i) Midrashic. Jellinek published in the six parts of his Beth ha-Midrasch ( 1853 - 1878 ) a large number of smaller Midrashi, ancient and medieval homilies and folk-lore records, which have been of much service in the recent revival of interest in Jewish apocalyptic literature. A translation of these collections of Jellinek into German was undertaken by A. Wuensche, under the general title Aus Israels Lehrhalle. Before the study of ethnic psychology had become a science, Jellinek devoted attention to the subject. There is much keen analysis and original investigation in his two essays Der judische Stamm (1869) and Der judische Stamm in nicht-judischen Spriich-wdrtern (1881-1882). It is to Jellinek that we owe the oft-repeated comparison of the Jewish temperament to that of women in its quickness of perception, versatility and sensibility. Jellinek was probably the greatest synagogue orator of the igth century. He published some 200 sermons, in most of which are displayed unobtrusive learning, fresh application of old sayings, and a high conception of Judaism and its claims. Jellinek was a powerful apologist and an accomplished homilist, at once profound and ingenious. His son, GEORGE JELLINEK , was appointed professor of international law at Heidelberg in 1891.3 Another son, MAX HERMANN JELLINEK, was made assistant professor of philology at Vienna in 1892.4 A brother of Adolf, HERMANN JELLINEK (b. 1823), was executed at the age of 26 on account of his association with the Hungarian national movement of 1848. One of Hermann Jellinek's best-known works was Uriel Acosta. Another brother, MORITZ JELLINEK (1823-1883), was an accomplished economist, and contributed to the Academy of Sciences essays on the price of cereals and on the statistical organization of the country. He founded the Budapest tramway company (1864) and was also president of the corn exchange.5 A.) This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Chisholm, Hugh , ed.6 Cambridge University Press. : Missing or empty |title= ( help )7

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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “born in moravia”. Today it says “austrian rabbi and scholar”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Czech rabbi Adolph Jellinek, 1860”. It now reads “Austrian rabbi Adolph Jellinek, 1860”. Read the current article and compare.
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austrian rabbi and scholar

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