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JELLINEK, ADOLF (1821–1893)

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JELLINEK, ADOLF (1821–1893) , Jewish preacher and See also:scholar, was See also:born in See also:Moravia. After filling clerical posts in See also:Leipzig, he became Prediger (preacher) in See also:Vienna in 1856. He was associated with the promoters of the New Learning within Judaism, and wrote on the See also:history of the Kabbala. His See also:bibliographies (each bearing the See also:Hebrew See also:title Qonlres) were useful compilations. But his most important See also:work See also:lay in three other directions. (1) Midrashic. Jellinek published in the six parts of his Beth ha-Midrasch (1853–1878) a large number of smaller Midrasci, See also:ancient and See also:medieval homilies and folk-See also:lore records, which have been of much service in the See also:recent revival of See also:interest in Jewish apocalyptic literature. A See also:translation of these collections of Jellinek into See also:German was undertaken by A. Wuensche, under the See also:general title Aus Israels Lehrhalle. (2) Psychological. Before the study of ethnic See also:psychology had become a See also:science, Jellinek devoted See also:attention to the subject. There is much keen See also:analysis and See also:original investigation in his two essays Der judische Stamm (1869) and Der judische Stamm in nicht jiidischen Spriiclt-wortern (1881–1882).

It is to Jellinek that we owe the oft-repeated comparison of the Jewish temperament to that of See also:

women in its quickness of See also:perception, versatility and sensibility. (3) Homiletic. Jellinek was probably the greatest See also:synagogue orator of the 19th See also: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, See also:GEORGE JELLINEK, was appointed See also:professor of inter-See also:national See also:law at See also:Heidelberg in 1891. Another son, MAX See also:HERMANN JELLINEK, was made assistant professor of See also:philology at Vienna in 1892. A See also:brother of Adolf, HERMANN JELLINEK (b. 1823), was executed at the See also:age of 26 on See also:account of his association with the Hungarian national See also:movement of 1848. One of Hermann Jellinek's best-known See also:works was Uriel See also:Acosta. Another brother, See also:MORITZ JELLINEK (1823-1883), was an accomplished economist, and contributed to the See also:Academy of Sciences essays on the See also:price of cereals and on the statistical organization of the See also:country. He founded the See also:Budapest See also:tramway See also:company (1864) and was also See also:president of the See also:corn See also:exchange.

See Jewish Encyclopedia, vii. 92-94. For a See also:

character See also:sketch of Adolf Jellinek see S. See also:Singer. Lectures and Addresses (1908), pp. 8813 ; Kohut, Beruhmte israelitische Manner and Frauen. (I. A.

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