The Three Brothers
Ludwig Philippson
1854
“Back at home, I pulled myself together and reflected on what had happened. Given how the people had behaved when they heard the wrongheaded and hateful rabbi’s curse of excommunication, I realized that I could only continue my lectures if something were done explicitly to redress what had happened. But was this really to be expected? There weren’t…
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