Adolphe Danziger De Castro
Adolphe Danziger De Castro, also known as Gustav Adolf Danziger, Adolph Danziger, Adolphe Danziger and Adolphe De Castro, (November 6, 1859 – March 4, 1959) was a Jewish scholar, journalist, lawyer and author of poems, novels and short stories.
Life
Adolphe Danziger De Castro was born Abram Dancygier, the son of Symcha Jakub Dancygier and Chaja Szarka, near
Danziger De Castro also claimed that he had received the rabbinical ordination by Rabbi Israel Jehoszua Trunk called 'R. Shiele Kutner' (1820–1893)
He was first married in to Bertha M. Levy (b. 1867) and had the children Beatrice Danziger (1891–1974, married to William K. Dolan) and Nathan Danziger (1894–1965), who changed his name to Nathaniel Dolan. He got married a second time - without having been divorced from his first wife - in 1907 to Georgina Sterling McClellan (1880–1935) and, after his second wife's death, a third time to Maria Paez Urquidi.
Adolphe Danziger De Castro died at almost 100 years in Los Angeles, California on March 4, 1959.
Works
Danziger translated the story "Der Mönch von Berchtesgaden" (The Monk of Berchtesgaden), by German author
In 1903, he wrote the academic book Jewish Forerunners of Christianity on the Jewish Patriarchs of the 2nd Temple Period from
H. P. Lovecraft, with whom Danziger De Castro corresponded between 1927 and 1936, revised two of his early short stories in the late 1920s; they were published in Weird Tales.[4][5]
Partial bibliography
Essays
- "Extracts of the System of Jewish Philosophy and Religion of Maimonides", series of articles, in: The Jewish Voice, St. Louis, 1888.
- "The Position of Laboring Men Among the Ancient People, Especially Among the Ancient Jews in Palestine", series of articles in: The Jewish Voice, St. Louis, 1888.
- "The Story of Joseph, The son of Jacob: From the Legendary Lore of the Hebrews", series of articles in: The Jewish Voice, St. Louis, 1889.
- "The Jew in San Francisco, the Last Half Century", in: Overland Monthly and Out West magazine, San Francisco: Vol. 25, No. 148, April 1895.
- Jewish Forerunners of Christianity, New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1903 (re-issued in London: John Murray, 1904, and as Jesus Lived: Hebrew evidences of his existence and the rabbis who believed in him, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1926).
- The Sephardic movement in Spain: A present day review, unpublished monograph (Box B-77-272, American Jewish Archives, Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati), ca. 1920s.
- All I Care to Tell, unpublished autobiography (at the American Jewish Archives, Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati).
Novels
- The Monk and the Hangman’s Daughter, with Ambrose Bierce, Chicago: F. J. Schulte, 1892 (first published as serial in: San Francisco Examiner, 1891).
- A Man, A Woman and A Million, London: Sands & Co., 1902.
- Children of Fate: A Story of Passion, New York: Brentano's, 1905.
- The Polish Baroness, (n.p.), 1907.
- Helen Polska’s Lover, or The Merchant Prince, (n.p.), 1908 (re-issued London, 1909).
Poems
- After the Confession, and other verses, Western Authors' Publishing Association, 1908.
- In the Garden of Abdullah, and other poems, Los Angeles: Western Authors' Publishing Association, 1916.
- The Painter’s Dream, Los Angeles, 1940.
- The Hybrid Prince of Egypt, plus, Song of the Arabian Desert, Los Angeles: Western Authors Association, 1950.
Short stories
- In the Confessional and The Following, New York, San Francisco: Western Authors’ Publishing Association, 1893.
Revisions by H.P. Lovecraft
- "The Last Test", in: Weird Tales, Vol. 12, No. 5, Nov. 1928 (revision of "A Sacrifice to Science", in: In the Confessional and the Following, 1893)
- "The Electric Executioner", in: Weird Tales, Vol. 16, No. 2, Aug. 1930 (revision of "The Automatic Executioner", first published in: The Wave, Nov. 14, 1891, republished in: In the Confessional and the Following, 1893)
Film script
- The World Crucified: A photoplay of the mundane activity of Christ, 1921.
Biography
- Portrait of Ambrose Bierce, New York: The Century Co., 1929.
Notes
- ^ "Israel Joshua of Kutno". jewishencyclopedia.com. Archived from the original on 2022-12-09. Retrieved 2023-02-23.
- ^ "View Auction Listing - Yeshu'ot Yisrael". October 26, 2014. Archived from the original on 2014-10-26.
- ^ "Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel". Archived from the original on 2009-01-12. Retrieved 2009-03-29.
- ^ Powell, Christopher (Spring 1997). "The Revised Adolphe Danziger de Castro". Lovecraft Studies (36): 18–25. Archived from the original on 2008-05-13.
Old Dolph is a portly, sentimental, & gesticulating person given to egotistical rambling about old times & the great men he has intimately known. … he entertained everybody with his loquacious egotism & pompous reminiscences of intimacies with the great. … [He] regaled us with tedious anecdotes of how he secured the election of Roosevelt, Taft, & Harding as Presidents. According to himself, he is apparently America's foremost power behind the throne!
- JSTOR 26868428.
External links
- "The Revised Adolphe Danziger de Castro" (Christopher Powell)
- "Adolphe Danziger deCastro Publications and References" (Christopher Powell)
- Works by Adolphe Danziger De Castro at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Adolphe Danziger De Castro at Internet Archive
- Works by Adolphe Danziger De Castro at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- Adolphe de Castro at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database