ADOLF

JELLINEK (1821–1893)  , Jewish preacher and scholar, was born in Moravia . After filling clerical posts in Leipzig, he became Prediger (preacher) in Vienna in 1856 . He was associated with the promoters of the New Learning within Judaism, and wrote on the history of the Kabbala . His bibliographies (each bearing the Hebrew title Qonlres) were useful compilations . But his most important work lay in three other directions . (1) Midrashic . Jellinek published in the six parts of his Beth ha-Midrasch (1853–1878) a large number of smaller Midrasci, ancient and medieval homilies and folk-lore records, which have been of much service in the recent revival of interest in Jewish apocalyptic literature . A translation of these collections of Jellinek into German was undertaken by A . Wuensche, under the general title Aus Israels Lehrhalle . (2) Psychological . Before the study of ethnic psychology had become a science, Jellinek devoted attention to the subject . There is much keen analysis and original investigation in his two essays Der judische Stamm (1869) and Der judische Stamm in nicht jiidischen Spriiclt-wortern (1881–1882) .

It is to Jellinek that we owe the oft-repeated comparison of the Jewish temperament to that of

women in its quickness of perception, versatility and sensibility . (3) Homiletic . Jellinek was probably the greatest synagogue orator of the 19th century . He published some 200 sermons, in most of which are displayed unobtrusive learning, fresh application of old sayings, and a high conception of Judaism and its claims . Jellinek was a powerful apologist and an accomplished homilist, at once profound and ingenious . His son, GEORGE JELLINEK, was appointed professor of inter-national law at Heidelberg in 1891 . Another son, MAX HERMANN JELLINEK, was made assistant professor of philology at Vienna in 1892 . A brother of Adolf, HERMANN JELLINEK (b . 1823), was executed at the age of 26 on account of his association with the Hungarian national movement of 1848 . One of Hermann Jellinek's best-known works was Uriel Acosta . Another brother, MORITZ JELLINEK (1823-1883), was an accomplished economist, and contributed to the Academy of Sciences essays on the price of cereals and on the statistical organization of the country . He founded the Budapest tramway company (1864) and was also president of the corn exchange .

See Jewish Encyclopedia, vii . 92-94 . For a

character sketch of Adolf Jellinek see S . Singer . Lectures and Addresses (1908), pp . 8813 ; Kohut, Beruhmte israelitische Manner and Frauen . (I . A .