From the synagogue and school in the fifties and sixties the scene shifts to Friday evenings in my parents' house in the eighties and nineties. Here, we children heard for the first time the Rabbi's articles in the monthly 'Jeschurun', The 'Jeschurun' was oublished by Rabbi Hirsch between 1854 and 1870, and my grandfather, one of the first members of the newly-founded 'KehlHah', had collected the issues in bound volumes which had become a precious part of our library. There was no anti who could read these articles better than my father and he accompanied his reading with personal recollections. Among the essays were addresses, given by the Rabbi on special occasions, and we listened spell-bound to the Rabbi's words and our father's commentary
HERMANN SCHWAB: MEMORIES OF FRANKFORT
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