É. Apor (ed.): David Kaufmann Memorial Volume: Papers Presented at the David Kaufmann Memorial Conference, November 29, 1999, Budapest.

ORMOS, István: David Kaufmann and his Collection

ISTVÁN ORMOS among the Jews of the West, Sabbatai Donnolo, reading his Hakmoni, the beginnings of the scholarly activities of Saadia al-Fayyumi.

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8 In the following school-year of 1884-1885 the course "Jewish History" dealt with the persecutions of the Almohads in Africa and Spain, the Jews in Egypt, the biographies of Maimon b. Yosef and Musa Maimuni, a reading of the sources, especially of selected portions of Maiinuni's letters. In his course "History of the Religious Philosophy of the Jews" he treated the following subjects: the system of religious philosophy and ethics of Saadia al-Fayyumi, his Jfez/ra/7-commentary, analysis of the contents of his Emunot we-Deot, the history of religious philosophy of the Jews up to Gaon Haya.

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9 In the school-year 1885-1886 he treated the following subjects in the course of his lectures on "Jewish History:" The Jews in Egypt, the biographies of Abraham Maimuni and Yosef ibn Aqnin, the polemic about More

, the reading of selected chapters of the writings of Abraham Maimuni. In his course "Philosophy of Religion" he read with his students responsa of Gaon Haya relevant to the philosophy of religion, and gave a critical analysis of Abraham ibn Daud's Emuna Rama on the basis of manuscripts. In his course "History of Religious Philosophy of the Jews" he lectured on the religious philosophy of Gaon Haya and the tendencies of religious philosophy among Spanish Jews up to Menachem b. Saruk.

20 - It may be noted that Wilhelm Bacher had a similar load and taught such subjects as Goethe's ballads, Hermann und Dorothea by Goethe or Die Jungfrau von Orleans by Schiller, in addition to Introduction to the Holy Scripture, Exegesis, Jewish History, Midrash and Hebrew. At his appointment the Minister of Religion and Public Education, Ágoston Trefort, made it a condition that in the course of four years Kaufmann acquire a good knowledge of Hungarian, which he could use as the language of instruction and for delivering lectures.

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1 Kaufmann achieved this more quickly than anyone would have expected and following his settlement in Hungary he published his most important works in Hungarian too. The minister lauded him publicly for his competence in 1

8 A budapesti Országos Rabbiképző-Intézet Értesítője az 1883-1884-iki tanévről. Budapest 1884. 5. Jahresbericht der Landes-Rabbinerschule in Budapest für das Schuljahr 1883-1884. Budapest 1884. 5-6. " A budapesti Országos Rabbiképző-Intézet Értesítője az 1884-1885-iki tanévről. Budapest 1885. 4. Jahresbericht der Landes-Rabbinerschule in Budapest für das Schuljahr 1884-1885. Budapest 1884. 4. 2

0 A budapesti Országos Rabbiképző-Intézet Értesítője az 1885-1886-iki tanévről. Budapest 1886. 5. 2

1 KRAUSS 1901 (1902). 54 (Anhang. A.). At the beginning of his career, on the occasion of the inauguration of the synagogue of the Seminary he held a sermon in German on 6 October 1877. József BÁNÓCZI, AZ Országos Rabbiképző-Intézet első évtizedének története = A budapesti Országos Rabbiképző-Intézet X. értesítője az 1886-87-iki tanévről. Budapest 1888. 21-29. 130