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    Title

  • Studio portrait of Rabbi Moritz Güdemann

  • Physical Description

    1 photograph : black-and-white ; 11x17 cm

  • Date

    undated

  • Place of Publication

    Wien II

  • Summary

    Studio portrait of the Chief Rabbi of Vienna.

  • Depicted

    Güdemann, Moritz, 1835-1918

  • Subject

    Portraits, Men; Rabbis; Rabbis, Austria, Vienna

  • Genre

    Photographs

  • Part Of

    Moritz Guedemann Collection, AR 25515

  • Accession Number

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Biographical/Historical Information

Born in Hildesheim on February 19, 1835, Moritz Guedemann studied at the Juedisch-theologisches Seminar, Breslau, and became rabbi of Magdeburg in 1862. He became a maggid in Vienna in 1866, and was appointed chief rabbi in 1868. He wrote extensively on Jewish apologetics and education. Rabbi Moritz Guedemann died in Baden, near Vienna, on August 5, 1918.

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Citation

Studio portrait of Rabbi Moritz Güdemann, Leo Baeck Institute, F 001 AR 7067.