Abraham Adler (rabbi, 1808)

Abraham Adler (born August 11, 1808 in Kleinsteinach , Lower Franconia ; † February 22, 1880 in Aschaffenburg , Kingdom of Bavaria ) was a German rabbi and founder of a yeshiva .

life and work

Abraham was the son of the teacher and later merchant Merchant Selig Adler . As a pupil he attended the yeshiva led by Abraham Moses Mayländer in Burgpreppach for his Talmudic studies , then with Abraham Stein in Adelsdorf and from 1823 in Fürth . After the Fürth yeshiva was closed in 1827, he went to Erlangen for one and a half years for private studies and graduated from high school in Würzburg in August 1832 . From October 1832 he studied philosophy at the University of Würzburg and at the same time attended the yeshiva led there by Abraham Bing . In addition to his studies, he worked as a tutor until he passed his state examination in April 1836.

In 1838 he held the office of Discrimination Rabbi in Burgpreppach , then from 1845 in Aschaffenburg and in 1860 founded a yeshiva of the Ben-Zion Association .

As a close confidante, he was called in as an assessor at the rabbi examination of Seligmann Bär Bamberger . With this he signed in 1844 against the first free rabbinical assembly in Germany and in 1864 was in the Kompert trial on the part of the separation orthodoxy.

He was married to Ricke Igersheimer († 1895).

literature

• Michael Brocke, Julius Carlebach; Carsten Wilke (Ed.): Biographical Handbook of Rabbis Part 1: The Rabbis of the Emancipation Period in the German, Bohemian and Greater Poland Countries 1781–1871 Volume 1 . KG Saur, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-598-24871-7 , p. 122 .