"Rabbi Dr. Isaac Rosenberg 1860-1940. Isaac Rosenberg was born on October 5, 1860, the youngest of six children, in the West German town of Rosenthal in Hessen, near the city of Kassel. He attended the Jewish Teacher Seminary in Kassel during the years 1876 to 1879. Following two years in various teaching positions, he enrolled in the University of Marburg, where he studied Oriental philology, philosophy, and literature. His doctoral thesis, ""The Aramaic Verb in the Babylonian Talmud"" was published in 1887 under the auspices of the University of Leipzig. Rosenberg's Sermons. In the course of his rabbinic career, Rosenberg composed thousands of sermons sermons for the synagogue on Sabbaths and Festivals, as well as weddings, circumcisions, Bar Mitzvahs, and funerals - in Thorn as well as in the surrounding Jewish communities. Their composition and delivery became a special passion of his, and he recorded in his diary the specific Biblical text upon which each week s sermon was based. He firmly believed that sermons must be memorized and delivered without notes as a way of conveying the preacher s sincerity. With unintended humor, he subjected each sermon to critical evaluation, each sermon called superb or very well received (2) In fact, reviews of this volume in Jewish newspapers at the time of publication were uniformly favorable in their praise for the clarity, style, elegance and content of the sermons. Among the early influences on Rosenberg s style of preaching, was A