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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... memoir of alexander kohut By Barnett A. Elzas lexander kohut, Rabbi, scholar, author, preacher and educator, was born in Felegyhaza, Hungary, on April 22, 1842. He was a child of poverty, one of thirteen children. As a boy, we are told, he was strikingly beautiful, tall, of slender build, with big, expressive eyes, a gentle voice, of a singularly happy disposition and of magnetic personality. His father, Jacob, a man of vigorous constitution, who at the age of seventy walked from Kecskemet to Vienna to speak to the King and Kaiser whom he has served for many years, was a scholar of no mean attainments who spoke several languages fluently. His mother, Cecelia, was a pious and God-fearing woman, who did much to mould the character of her son. Like so many of the Jews in the village where he lived, the father The writer is indebted for the main facts of this sketch, to a biography of Alexander Kohut by Moses Reines, in his little volume. Dor Vachachamav, Cracow, 1890. This is largely autobiographical. Also to the In Memoriam pamphlet Alexander Kohut, ein Characterbild, von Dr. Adolph Kohut. was able to eke out only the barest existence by petty trading in the surrounding country, returning home week by week, in time for the Sabbath. This enforced absence from home made it impossible for him to supervise the education of his son. There were only a few Jews in Felegyhaza and this village did not even possess an elementary school. Hence it happened that young Alexander reached the age of eight without even the rudiments of elementary learning. Life in a Hungarian ghetto was no pleasant dream for the Jew in those days. Hep, hep, was a common cry. The year 1848 with its terrible storm and stress added greatly to his father's troubles,...
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- PublisherTheClassics.us
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1230349405
- ISBN 13 9781230349404
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages46
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