Samuel Krauss

Samuel Krauss ( born February 18, 1866 in Ukk, Hungary, † June 4, 1948 in Cambridge, England) was a Jewish scholar whose focus was the Talmudic lexicography, realia, archeology and cultural history.

Life and work

Since 1894, Krauss was a professor of Hebrew at the Jewish Teachers' Seminary in Budapest. From 1906 to 1938 he taught as a professor of Jewish history at the Israelite Theological College in Vienna.

His most important work is the three-volume " Talmudic Archaeology " (1910/1911 / 1912), which appeared within the outline of the overall science of Judaism and to this day is regarded as the standard work. It is a cultural history of Judaism in the Biblical centuries ( " Talmudic Period"). Volume I describes the private sphere (home and home appliance, clothing, jewelry, firing, food, health and other rules ). Volume II describes Krauss agriculture, family life, trade, transport and trade. The third volume is about socializing, conversation, font and book trade, as well as the school.

Krauss emigrated to England after his valuable library was destroyed in November 1938.

Works (selection)

• Greek and Latin loanwords in the Talmud, Midrash and Targum, 2 vols, 1898/1899
• Life of Jesus according to Jewish sources, 1902
• Antoninus and Rabbi, Vienna 1910
• Talmudic archeology. Three volumes, 1910/1911 / 1912
• The Vienna Geserah the year 1421st Vienna 1920.
• Synagogal Antiquities, 1922
• History of the Jewish doctors, 1930