SULZBACH, ABRAHAM

SULZBACH, ABRAHAM (1838–1925), educator and scholar. Sulzbach, born in Hamburg, studied rabbinics with the local chief rabbi (A. Stern), S.B. *Bamberger in Wuerzburg, and M. Landsberg in Berlin; in Wuerzburg and Berlin he also attended university, studying history and philology. From 1862 to 1912 he taught German, history, geography and talmudic subjects at the high school (Realschule der Israelitischen Religionsgesellschaft) that S.R. *Hirsch had established in Frankfurt.

Among his published works are Renan und der Judaismus (1867); Dichterklaenge aus Spaniens besseren Tagen (1873, 1903²); Die religioese und weltliche Poesie der Juden vom 7. bis zum 16. Jahrhundert (1893; later in J. Winter and A. Wuensche, Die juedische Literatur seit Abschluss des Kanons, vol. 3); Bilder aus der juedischen Vergangenheit (1914, 1923²); Die Ethik des Judentums (1923; extracts from R. Judah he-Ḥasid, Sefer Ḥasidim); and he edited an anonymous commentary on Job (1911). Sulzbach also translated the book of Esther (Das Buch Esther, 1904³; 1906⁴; incl. the evening prayer for Purim) and the Targum Sheni of Esther (1920) into German and edited some prayer books with translation, such as Sefer ha-Ḥayyim (1905⁸, 1930¹⁰; repr. 1983) and Koheleth Schelomo (1908).

bibliography:

Der Israelit (July 9, 1925); H. Schwab, Chachme Ashkenaz (Eng., 1964), 120; P. Arnsberg, Die Geschichte der Frankfurter Juden, vol 3, 454–55.

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