Later Boards. 8vo. 32 pages. 23 cm. First edition. In German. 'The Organ Question. ' Zur Orgelfrage (1919) , an essay on the contemporary problem of the use of the organ in the synagogue, in which Krauss adopts a Conservative stance. Samuel Krauss (1866–1948) , “historian, philologist, and talmudic scholar. Born in Ukk, Hungary, Krauss studied at Papa Yeshivah and at the Budapest rabbinical seminary and university. From 1894 to 1906 Krauss taught Bible and Hebrew at the Jewish teachers' seminary in Budapest. In 1906 he began to teach Bible, history, and liturgy at the Israelitisch-Theologische Lehranstalt in Vienna. It was due to his efforts that the college did not succumb to financial difficulties after World War I. He traveled widely for his archaeological and historical research. Krauss was appointed head of the seminary in 1932 and rector in 1937. Krauss founded the Vienna Verein fuer juedische Geschichte und Literatur, and was active in many communal institutions. During the Kristallnacht in November 1938, the Nazis destroyed his valuable library and papers, and he fled to England, joining his daughter in Cambridge, where he remained until his death. ” - EJ 2008. Subjects: Synagogue music - History and criticism. Organ (Musical instrument) . Synagogues - History. Synagogue music. Synagogues. Criticism, interpretation, etc. OCLC lists 25 copies. Pages aged, browned, otherwise clean and fresh. Good condition. (GER-44-38)