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Revision as of 10:46, 1 February 2010
Heinrich Hirsch Graetz (1817-1891) was a Jewish-German scholar.
Biography
Jewish German historian and biblical scholar. Taught at Jewish Theological Seminary of Breslau. Edited the Monatsschrift für die Geschichte und Wissenschaft des Judentums. Highly influential in his attempt to write history of Jews as history of living people and from a self-conscious Jewish viewpoint.
Works on Second Temple Judaism
Books
- Geschichte der Juden von den ältesten Zeiten bis auf die Gegenwart, 11 vols. (Leipzig 1853-76; 2nd ed. 1878-97)
- A History of the Jews, 6 vols. (Philadelphia 1885-98)
- Die jüdischen Proselyten im Römerreiche unter den Kaisern Domitian, Nerva, Trajan und Hadrian (1884 Graetz), book