[10] This biographical work was not printed, and the manuscript could not be found.
[11] The writer speaks from personal experience, though it is proper to add, that he heard Geiger’s sermons in his youth, when one is inclined to enthusiasm and admiration; yet he thinks that the judgment expressed above can be sustained.
[12] The Talmudic works of R. Isaac Alfassi.
[13] A great, heavy cane with ornamental knob was carried in Poland as the badge of the rabbinical office.
[14] Heroes.
[15] A philologist of repute, whose contributions to Latin lexicography are of considerable value.
[16] Lehrbuch zur Sprache der Mishnah.
[17] An anonymous article in the “Orient,” 1843, p. 391 ff., may be accounted his introduction into the world of letters. It treats of the question then mooted, “On the Sanctity of Jewish Cemeteries” (Ueber die Heiligkeit der jüdischen Begräbnissplätze), and is dated Breslau, November 22. The skirmish with Geiger began in the “Orient,” 1844, p. 21.
[18] Israelit des 19ten Jahrhunderts.
[19] Gnostizismus und Judenthum.