[20] “Book of Creation.”
[21] Originally October 15 had been appointed, but many of the participants considered September a more suitable time.
[22] Zeitschrift für die religiösen Interessen des Judenthums.
[23] Die Septuaginta im Talmud.
[24] Die Konstruktion der jüdischen Geschichte.
[25] To accept this trust Graetz needed the permission of the municipal authorities, obtainable only by means of a duly accredited teacher’s diploma. He therefore attended the Catholic Normal School at Breslau for some time as “student by courtesy” (Hospitant). On November 4, 1847, after having taken an examination, he was given a diploma testifying to his ability to fill the position of teacher and rector at an elementary school. It is the only official certificate of examination Graetz could show.
[26] This same Friedmann and Graetz appear as the joint authors of an article in Baur and Zeller’s Theologie Year-book for 1848 (Vol. VII, p. 338), “On the Alleged Continuance of the Jewish Sacrificial Cult after the Destruction of the Second Temple” (Ueber die angebliche Fortdauer des jüdischen Opferkultus nach der Zerstörung des zweiten Tempels). Friedmann’s share in the essay cannot be determined. The introduction plainly bears the marks of Graetz’s manner and style, and Graetz was in the habit of considering the work his own. It is the only production published by him between 1846 and 1851.
[27] In his curriculum vitæ (among the archives of the Board of Curators of the Bequests of the royal commercial councilor Fränkel, “relative to Graetz, teacher at the Seminary”), Graetz makes the following statements: “In 1849 I obeyed the summons of the District Rabbi of Moravia to participate in the establishment of, and to act as teacher at, a rabbinical seminary for Moravian and Austrian communities. But the institution did not come into existence; the unsettled condition of affairs in Austria, especially the permanent temporariness to which the position of the Israelites there had become a prey, prolonged the discussions on the execution of the plans for a seminary of the kind. I was therefore compelled to accept provisionally the superintendence of a Jewish public school at Lundenburg near Vienna.”
[28] Monatsschrift für Geschichte und Wissenschaft des Judenthums.
[29] Jüdisch-geschichtliche Studien.