[Volume 9 only] Geschichte der Juden Von den ältesten Zeiten bis auf die Gegenwart, Neunter Band); von der Verbannung der Juden aus Spanien und Portugal bis zur dauernden Ansiedelung der Marranen in holland (1618) aus der Quellen neu bearbeitet

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In German. xiv, (1), 498, 33, (1) pages. The last 34 pages, consisting of the "Alphabetarisch liste der Forderer". are yellowed, having been printed on poor quality paper. Hinges exposed. With signature of Karl Rosenthal. Karl Rosenthal was born in 1889, one of nine children. He studied at the Universities of Berlin and Münster before receiving his doctorate from the University of Cologne. He served as a rabbi in Dortmund, where he met his future wife, Trudie Schuster. They were married shortly before the outbreak of World War I and were on their honeymoon in Norway when Karl was called back to serve in the army. Their first son, Klaus, was born nine months later. Their second son, George, was born in 1920. In 1924 Karl Rosenthal began working as a rabbi for the Reform congregation in Berlin. Many of his writings criticized the Nazi ideology, and he was arrested several times. On Kristallnacht Rosenthal was arrested and sent to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. He was released three months later with orders to leave Germany at once and went to England, where he studied in Oxford. The Rosenthals' son Klaus had already immigrated to the United States. Trudie and George left Berlin early in 1939 and settled in Amsterdam. George was arrested by the Gestapo in 1941 and sent to the concentration camp in Mauthausen, Austria, where he perished. Later that year Trudie was arrested as well and was held at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp for three years. She was able to obtain a South American passport and upon her release went to Switzerland and then on to an UNRRA (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration) camp in Algiers. She remained there until 1945 when she was able to board a ship bound for America. She was finally reunited with Karl and Klaus in Philadelphia on December 31, 1945. In 1946, Karl received an appointment to the Reform congregation in Fredericksburg, Virginia. He later worked in Springfield, Illinois, and Wilmington, North Carolina, where he died in 1952. Trudie stayed in Wilmington and died there in 1976. Graetz was born to a butcher family in Xions (now Ksiaz Wielkopolski), Grand Duchy of Posen, in Prussia (now in Poland), he attended Breslau University, but since Jews at that time were barred from receiving Ph.D.s there, he obtained his doctorate from the University of Jena. After 1845 he was principal of the Jewish Orthodox school of the Breslau community, and later taught history at the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau (now Wroclaw, Poland). His magnum opus History of the Jews was quickly translated into other languages and ignited worldwide interest in Jewish history. As his fame grew so did the embarrassment at Breslau University, and so in 1869 it bestowed on him an honorary doctorate. The Spaniards also wanted to make amends for having expelled 200,000 Spanish Jews a few centuries earlier and for burning Jews alive ("auto da fe") in public squares in Spain and in her colonies, in the centuries following the expulsion, and so in 1888 they bestowed on Graetz an Honorary Membership in the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences. N° de ref. del artículo 012580

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