Joseph Rabinowitz

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Joseph Rabinowitz / Rabinowitsch

Joseph Rabinowitz (also Rabinovich , Hebrew יוסף רבינוביץ; Russian Иосиф Давидович Рабинович * 23. September 1837 in Rezina on Dniester , Bessarabia , Russian Empire ; † 17th May 1899 in Odessa ) was Russian- Jewish lawyer, the most famous Messianic Jew of 19 Century and founder of the Christianity movement in southern Russia.

Life

Joseph Rabinowitz / Rabinowitsch lived in Kischinew (Kischineff) in southwestern Russia (Bessarabia), today's capital of the Republic of Moldova . He traveled to Jerusalem in 1882 to found a Jewish colony there, found his conversion on the Mount of Olives and has since spoken of Jesus our brother . In 1884, under the influence of the pogroms there, he founded a community of "Israelites of the New Covenant" in Kishinev , but refused membership in a Christian church, instead emphasizing the independence of the Jewish Christians as independent of the Christian church. However, he recognized Jesus as the promised Messiah of the people of Israel. It is largely forgotten today, but is considered a forerunner of messianic Judaism ( messianic Jews ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ All personal data according to BBKL entry .

Works

  • Descriptions from Russia . collected from: Yearbook for the History of the Jews and Judaism , Institute for the Promotion of Israelite Literature (Ed.), Leipzig 1860–1869
  • Two sermons were delivered in the Bethlehem House of God in Kishinev . Verlag Dörffling & Franke, Leipzig 1885
  • Franz Delitzsch (Ed.): Documents of the South Russian Christianity Movement. Self-biography and sermons by Joseph Rabinowitsch , Leipzig 1887

literature

  • JFA de le Roi: The Evangelical Christianity and the Jews from the point of view of mission historically considered , vol. 2, Karlsruhe and Leipzig 1884, p. 349f.
  • I. Fauerholdt: Joseph Rabinowitsch. A prophetic figure from modern Judaism , in: Kleine Schriften zur Judenmission , Volume 8, Leipzig 1914 - digitized
  • Encyclopaedia Judaica, Vol. 13, Jerusalem 1971, pp. 1472f: Rabinovich, Joseph (1837-1899 ).
  • Siegfried Wagner: Franz Delitzsch. Life and Work , (Munich 1978) Gießen / Basel ²1991, pp. 162f.165.493.500.
  • Günther Harder: Church and Israel. Works on the Christian-Jewish relationship (Studies on the Jewish people and Christian community, Volume 7), Berlin 1986, pp. 92f.108 (first published in: Evangelische Theologie 12 (1952/53), pp. 161ff).
  • Kai Kjær-Hansen: Josef Rabinowitsch og den messianske bevægelse . Forlaget Okay-Bog, Århus 1988. - German translation by Niels-Peter Moritzen: Josef Rabinowitsch and the messianic movement. The heart of Jewish Christianity . Published by the Evangelical Lutheran Central Association for Witness and Service among Christians and Jews, Hanover 1990 (without footnotes but with a complete bibliography). - English translation: Joseph Rabinowitz and the messianic movement. The Herzl of Jewish Christianity , Handsel Press [u. a.], Edinburgh 1995, ISBN 1-871828-37-6 and ISBN 0-8028-0859-X
  • Rainer Reuter:  Rabinowitsch, Joseph. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 7, Bautz, Herzberg 1994, ISBN 3-88309-048-4 , Sp. 1175-1177.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  • Roland Fleischer: Encounters between Baptists and Jews in Southeast Europe , in: Free Church Research 1998, No. 8, pp. (205-229) 211-213.
  • Arnulf H. Baumann: Joseph Rabinowitsch's messianic Judaism , in: Folker Siegert (ed.), Grenzzüge. People and fates between Jewish, Christian and German identity , Münster 2002, pp. 195–211.
  • Thomas Küttler: Controversial mission to the Jews. The Leipzig Central Association for Mission under Israel from Franz Delitzsch to Otto von Harling , Leipzig 2009, pp. 24.25.27.34.112.167.295 and more.
  • Anatoly Uschomirski: The Jews first. Theological perspectives of the 'mission to the Jews' in the epochs of church history , Nürnberg / Korntal 2014, pp. 73–75.
  • Hanna Rucksack: Messianic Jews. History and theology of the movement in Israel , Neukirchen-Vluyn 2014, pp. 9f.11.77.105.127.130.150.313f.

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personal data
SURNAME Rabinowitz, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rabinowitsch, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION messianic jew
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1837
PLACE OF BIRTH Rezina on the Dniester
DATE OF DEATH May 17, 1899
Place of death Odessa