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Exactly 101 years ago, on Friday evening, April 23, 1920, the community members of the Neolog Jewish congregation in Szeged, Hungary waited for Chief Rabbi Imm\u00e1nuel L\u00f6w in vain in front of the city’s New Synagogue.<\/p>\n

On that very day, he was imprisoned for fourteen months based on false accusations<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Construction of Szeged’s New Synagogue was initiated by Rabbi L\u00f6w, who also designed its stained glass windows and interior (Photo: D\u00f3ra Pataricza)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Rabbi’s L\u00f6w’s statement of defense, from the National Library of Israel collection. Wrongly convicted of defamation, he was released after a year in jail, following international intervention<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While still in prison, he began writing his masterpiece, Die Flora der Juden <\/em><\/a>(The Flora of the Jews<\/em>), in which he describes the flora that appear in the Torah, the Talmud, and medieval Jewish literature. Another result of his imprisonment was that he expanded an earlier essay of his, written on the topic of the kiss. He wrote the first version of Der Ku\u00df<\/em> (The Kiss<\/em>) \u2014 a significant work in folkloristics \u2014 in Hungarian in 1882 for the wedding of his friend, and published it in only thirty copies.<\/p>\n

It describes the topic of kisses and the act of kissing in Jewish and non-Jewish literature.<\/p>\n

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A copy of the 1882 printing of “The Kiss”, with the inscription: “To Mrs. Ign\u00e1c Goldziher with greetings from the author”.<\/a> From the National Library of Israel collection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When Imm\u00e1nuel L\u00f6w was detained, his son, Lip\u00f3t L\u00f6w (named after Imm\u00e1nuel’s father, who is regarded as perhaps the most important figure in Neolog Judaism) was allowed to send some of his father\u2019s scholarly work to the prison.<\/p>\n

Lip\u00f3t recalled this moment in his unpublished memoir:<\/p>\n

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“When I was finally able to deliver materials for his scientific research to the prison cell for the Ministry of Justice, I first had to choose between the materials of two of his studies: <\/em>Der Ku\u00df (The Kiss) and <\/em>Tr\u00e4nen (The Tears). I chose the first one. An outsider could not know what said content in the cell’s solitude could trigger in the prisoner.”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It was only due to his son\u2019s decision that L\u00f6w was thus able to extend the essay he had written almost forty years previously to fifty-one pages and translate it into German. The editors at the Monatsschrift f\u00fcr Geschichte und Wissenschaft des Judentums<\/em><\/a> (Monthly Magazine for Science and History of Judaism) even had to add the following sentence to the first part of the publication in 1921: \u201cFor special reasons, the author was unable to read the second proof of this article himself.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Table of contents for The Kiss<\/em>, as it was published in Monatsschrift f\u00fcr Geschichte und Wissenschaft des Judentums<\/em>. Part I<\/a> and Part II<\/a> of the article are available online via the L\u00f6w Heritage Foundation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In The Kiss<\/em>, L\u00f6w gives a comprehensive and multi-faceted overview of the cultural history of the kiss, written in an easy to understand and even enjoyable style. L\u00f6w describes the act of kiss as a motif and the phenomenon of kissing from linguistic, anthropologic, religious, historical, legal, folkloristic, eschatological and even poetical points of views. He used various sources from a variety of cultural contexts.<\/p>\n

The knowledge that permeates his work is fascinating \u2014 especially knowing that the circumstances in which he worked on the extended version of The Kiss<\/em> were anything but ideal.<\/p>\n

Despite their historical, cultural and literary value, L\u00f6w\u2019s works are almost non-existent in English. To fill this gap, and to preserve the work of this invaluable figure of Hungarian Jewish thought, in the autumn of 2019 we decided to translate The Kiss<\/em> from German to English.<\/p>\n

Throughout the translation process, we strove to create a text that would be easy for a 21st century reader to follow. The bulk of the translation was done during the first wave of COVID-19 and, without the option of physically accessing any of the relevant major libraries, we were forced to do all the necessary background research using only online, digitized collections and email correspondences. The first volume of 1824’s \u00a0Geist der pharis\u00e4ischen Lehre<\/a> (The Spirit of Pharisaic Teaching)<\/em>, for example, could only be accessed through the National Library of Israel’s Digital Collection.<\/p>\n

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Cover page of the National Library of Israel’s digitized edition of Geist der pharis\u00e4ischen Lehre<\/em><\/a>, which had been looted by the Nazis and held in Reich Institute for the History of New Germany’s library<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

L\u00f6w cited his references only in abbreviated form. The original edition lacks a bibliography and also a list of abbreviations \u2014 likely due to the circumstances in which he worked on the piece. L\u00f6w composed this work for the readership of Monatsschrift f\u00fcr Geschichte und Wissenschaft des Judentums<\/em> where he often published articles on various topics. We therefore have to assume that at the time The Kiss <\/em>was published, his audience was familiar with both the references and their system of citation. With backgrounds in Jewish studies, classical philology, history and the study of religions, and as a result of an extended research process, in most instances we were able to reconstruct which editions L\u00f6w would have used when writing this extended version of The Kiss<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Whenever L\u00f6w gave volume\/page numbers, we looked for the exact edition in which the page number matches with the one mentioned by L\u00f6w. Librarians and fellow researchers will certainly be able to identify with our happiness and pride in successfully deciphering a number of these abbreviations, such as Ritter X 258, Goldziher Islam 253<\/em> (with the note that Ignaz Goldziher had several works containing the word Islam in the title) and Homil. 30<\/em>. We plan on sharing the solutions to some of these riddles on our instagram account @szegedjewisharchives<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Though some of the volumes from L\u00f6w\u2019s library survived and can now be found in the National Library of Israel collection, the library catalogue was lost following the tragic events of 1944\u20131945, making it impossible to confidently identify all of the works, sources or editions he referred to in the original text.<\/p>\n

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Rabbi Immanuel L\u00f6w and his wife Breuning Bella, ca. 1944. From the National Library of Israel collection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Some thirty years after L\u00f6w\u2019s 1944 death, a number of his writings, including The Kiss<\/em> were republished by Alexander Scheiber in Studien zur ju\u0308dischen Folklore<\/a> (Studies in Jewish Folklore)<\/em>. L\u00f6w officiated as chief rabbi of the Szeged Jewish community for 65 years and many documents relating to his time there and the community more broadly have recently been digitized and indexed, and are available online via the Szeged Jewish Archives<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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This article has been published as part of\u00a0Gesher L\u2019Europa<\/a>, the National Library of Israel\u2019s initiative to connect with people, institutions and communities across Europe and beyond, through storytelling, knowledge sharing and community engagement.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Imm\u00e1nuel L\u00f6w Archive<\/a> is safeguarded among the National Library of Israel collections in Jerusalem.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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