Stern

(J)., Rabbiner , German writer, b. of Jewish parents, Lieder stet ten (Wurtemburg), his father being Rabbi of the town. In ’58 he went to the Talmud High School, Presburg and studied the Kabbalah, which he intended to translate into German. To do this he studied Spinoza, whose philosophy converted him. In ’63 he graduated at Stuttgart. He founded a society, to which he gave discourses collected in his first book, Got tes flam me , ’72. His Old and New Faith Among the Jews , ’78, was much attacked by the orthodox Jews. In Women in the Talmud , ’79, he pleaded for mixed marriages. He has also written Jesus as a Jewish Reformer , The Egyptian Religion and Positivism , and Is the Pent a teuch by Moses? In ’81 he went to live at Stuttgart, where he has translated Spinoza’s Ethics, and is engaged on a history of Spinozism. “ Sterne (Carus)”; pseud. See Krause (E) .