Introduction

Biography

Stein moved to Ad­els­dorf around 1815, when his fa­ther be­came the rab­bi there.

His ear­ly edu­ca­tion was in Er­lang­en and Bay­reuth. In 1830, he began studies at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Würz­burg, and he re­ceived his rab­bin­ic or­di­na­tion from the Tal­mud­ic Col­lege in Fürth, and gave his first ser­mon in Frank­furt in 1833.

In 1835, he be­came rab­bi of Burg­kuns­tadt and Alt­en­kuns­tadt, Fran­co­nia.

He be­came rab­bi at Frank­furt am Main in 1844, and pre­sided ov­er the rab­bin­ic­al con­ven­tion there in 1845.

He with­drew from public life in 1872.

Works

Stein is re­mem­bered for trans­lat­ing Bib­li­cal and med­ie­val po­et­ry in­to German, and ad­ding Ger­man texts to tra­dition­al me­lo­dies of the He­brew li­tur­gy.

He al­so wrote se­cu­lar po­ems, thea­tri­cal pieces, and:

• Der Is­ra­el­it­ische Volks­lehr­er (1860–69), ed­it­or with Sam­uel Süß­kind (1804–88).
• Stufengesänge (Würz­burg: 1834)
• Gebete und Ge­sänge zum Ge­brauche bei der Oef­fent­lichen An­dacht (Er­lang­en: F. Enke, 1840)
• Stufengesänge (Würz­burg: 1834)
• Koheleth. Eine Aus­wahl got­tes­dienst­lich­er Vor­träge (Frank­furt: Jo­hann Da­vid Sau­er­länd­er, 1846)
• Die Schrift des Le­bens (Frank­furt: 1868)