Felix Singermann

Felix Singermann

Felix Singermann (born June 3, 1888 in Posen ; murdered in Riga in 1942 ) was a German rabbi .

Life

Memorial plaque on the house at Friedenstrasse 3

Singermann received his doctorate in 1915 at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg on the subject of "The marking of the Jews in the Middle Ages: a contribution to the social history of Judaism". Until 1919 he was a rabbi in the Berlin suburb of Pankow , after which he worked at the Lippmann Tauss synagogue in Berlin's Gollnowstrasse , founded in the 18th century, until it was closed in 1937 . He continued the synagogue at 3 Friedenstrasse until 1939 . A plaque commemorates him since 1988:

The last rabbi of the Lippmann-Tauß synagogue, Dr. Felix Singermann as a courageous spokesman for his community. In 1942 he was abducted and murdered by the fascists with his wife and six children.

Felix Singermann was one of the last rabbis in Berlin, alongside Leo Baeck and Martin Salomonski , until his deportation to the Riga ghetto .

Publications

• The characteristics of the Jews in the Middle Ages - a contribution to the social history of Judaism ; Funk, Berlin 1915
• The Lippmann-Tauss synagogue and the Lipschütz rabbi house ; Self-published, Berlin 1920
• Midrash Tanhuma ; Lamm, Berlin 1926