Joseph Kastein

Josef (later Joseph) Kastein, really Julius Katzenstein (6 October 1890, Bremen - 13 June 1946, Haifa), was a German-born writer and jurist. He wrote Eine Geschichte der Juden published by Rowohlt in Berlin in 1931 (translated into English, Hebrew and Dutch). According to Douglas Reed Josef Kastein was a "A most zealous Zionist historian... who holds that the Old Testament was in fact a political programme, drafted to meet the conditions of a time, and frequently revised to meet changing conditions.... and that the Law laid down in the Old Testament must be fulfilled to the letter."^[1] [1/] The Controversy of Zion Douglas Reed

Works

• Melchior. Ein hanseatischer Kaufmannsroman. Bremen, Friesen-Verlag, c1927.
• The Messiah of Ismir: Sabbatai Zevi. Translated by Huntley Paterson. New York, Viking Press, c1931.
• Eine Geschichte der Juden. Berlin, Ernst Rowohlt Verlag, 1931. (Reed. Vienna, Löwit, 1935).
• Jews in Germany. Translated from the German by Dorothy Richardson, with a preface by James Stephens. London, The Cresset press, 1934.
• Uriel da Costa, oder, Die Tragoedie der Gesinnung. Berlin, Rowohlt, 1932.
• Juedische Neuorientierung. Vienna, R. Loewit, 1935.
• History and destiny of the Jews. Translated by Huntley Paterson. Garden City, N.Y., Garden City publishing co., inc., 1936.

References

External links

• Personality of the Week - Katzenstein at www.bh.org.il
• Maremagnum at www.maremagnum.com
• Guide to the Papers of Josef Kastein (1890-1946) and Shulamith Kastein (1894-1983) at the Leo Baeck Institute, New York.