Softcover, 8vo, 118 pages, illustrated, 21 cm. In German. Title translates as: “Jewish Life as a Human Resistance: Documents of Hamburg Chief Rabbi Dr. Joseph Carlebach From The Years 1939-1942.” Series: Beitrage zur Geschichte Hamburgs; Bd. 37; Variation: Beitra? Ge zur Geschichte Hamburgs; Bd. 37. SUBJECT (S) : Rabbis -- Germany -- Hamburg -- Biography. World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish. Carlebach, Joseph, 1883-1942. Hamburg (Germany) -- Biography. Hamburg (Germany) -- Ethnic relations. Includes bibliographical references. Carlebach (1882-1942) was a “rabbi and educator, son of Solomon Carlebach and rabbi of Luebeck for nearly 50 years. Joseph Carlebach probably served as the prototype for the rabbi in Thomas Mann’s Dr. Faustus. After a period of teaching, he opened a Hebrew high school in German-occupied Kovno, Lithuania, during World War I. He later became headmaster of the Talmud Torah high school at Hamburg and rabbi of Luebeck, Altona, and ultimately of Hamburg. Carlebach published commentaries on the Song of Songs, the Prophets, and Ecclesiastes, and his thesis on Levi b. Gershom as a mathematician, besides many articles in German-Jewish periodicals. He perished in the Holocaust, in a concentration camp near Riga, Latvia (Falk in EJ, 2007) . Lightwear. Very good condition. (Holo2-87-12)