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archival history: The book was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2004 by Herbert Karliner.
biographical history: Michael Sachs was born on September 3, 1808, in Głogów, Poland. He studied in Germany and earned his doctorate at the University of Berlin in 1836. He was appointed as a rabbi in Prague, Austo-Hungary, that same year. Rabbi Sachs took a position as assistant rabbi in Berlin in 1844. Sachs was modern in some ways, integrating scholarship and preaching, using a choir during services, and giving sermons in German, but he was opposed to Reform Judaism. He contributed to a German translation of the Bible and completed a poetic German-language translation of the machzor that became largely popular. He died on January 31, 1864, in Berlin, Germany. Herbert Karliner was born on September 3, 1926, in Peiskretscham (Silesia) Germany (now Pyskowice, Poland), on Sept. 3, 1926, to Josef and Martha Weissler Karliner. Herbert had an older sister, Ilse, born in 1923, an older brother Walter, born on August 11, 1924, and a younger sister Ruth, born 1927. The family owned a grocery store, which Martha managed much of the time while Joseph was engaged in the horse trade. In 1933, the Nazi regime came to power and began systematically persecuting the Jewish population. The family’s grocery store was destroyed on Kristallnacht, November 9-10, 1938. Herbert’s father was arrested and imprisoned in Buchenwald concentration camp. He was released two month later after Martha got him a travel visa for Shanghai, China. They also sought ways for the entire family to flee Germany. They purchased tickets on the Hamburg-America luxury liner, MS St. Louis, sailing to Havana, Cuba, leaving Hamburg on May 13, 1939, and arriving in Cuba on May 27. Nearly all of the 937 passengers were Jewish refugees hoping to escape Nazi dominated Europe. Cuban authorities denied entry to all but 28 passengers. Despite urgent pleas to the United States government, the US President and Congress chose not to make any special exceptions to the stiff US quota limits and the refugees were denied permission to enter the US.…
physical characteristics and technical requirements: 312 p. ; 18 cm. Added title page: Festgebete der Israeliten, mit vollstaÌndigem, sorgfaÌltig durchgesehenem Text. Neu uÌbersetzt und erlaÌutert von Michael Sachs.
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title: Prayer book