Allgemeine Zeitung des Judentums - Jewish-German Periodical - Two Volumes of Issues - Leipzig, 1837-1838 / ...

Allgemeine Zeitung des Judentums - Jewish-German Periodical - Two Volumes of Issues - Leipzig, 1837-1838 / Dedication Handwritten by Ludwig Philippson, Founder of the Periodical
Two volumes of issues of the Allgemeine Zeitung des Judentums [The General Newspaper of Judaism], edited by Ludwig Philippson. Leipzig, 1837-1838. German.
Volume I: issues 1-116 from the first year, May-December 1837. Volume II: issues 1-155 from the second year, January-December 1838 + issues of the literary supplement Homiletisches und Literarisches Beiblatt.
At the beginning of the first volume is a dedication signed in the hand of the periodical's founder and editor, Yehuda Ludwig Philippson, from 1838. Philippson (1811-1889) was a Reform Rabbi, writer and translator. His works include a German translation of the Bible.
Allgemeine Zeitung des Judentums, a Jewish-German periodical published from 1837 to 1922 and dedicated to subjects from the Jewish world, particularly German Jewry. The periodical's founder and editor in its first years, Ludwig Philippson, sought to deepen the Jews' historical knowledge about their own people and to address all of the fields relevant to the Jewish community. The issues address general and Jewish history, politics, religion, philology and literature. The periodical's contributors during its first years included Gabriel Riesser, Leopold Zunz, Adolf Jellinek and many others.
Volume I: [2] leaves, 464 pp. Volume II: [2] leaves, 626 pp + issues of the literary supplement. 25 cm. Condition varies. Stains. Stamps on title-page of volume I. Worn bindings.