Abraham Buchner
Abraham Buchner (* 1789 in Cracow , † 1869 in Czestochowa ) was a teacher at the Warsaw Rabbinical School . He was a supporter of the Jewish enlightenment movement Haskala and an opponent of conservative Hasidism .
Buchner came to Warsaw as a private teacher of German, French and Hebrew languages and, with the support of the Catholic priest Aloysius Chiarini, found a job at the Warsaw Rabbinical School . Soon he was decried as a heretic by the traditional Jewish bourgeoisie for his unorthodox views. When his son Josef was baptized in 1842, the synagogue board asked for his resignation, but the authorities did not respect him. Buchner published a pamphlet “The Nullity of the Talmud” in 1848; the next year, a reply from the Warsaw school principal Moses Tenebaum appeared: “The Talmud and its importance”. In 1858 Buchner left his apprenticeship and moved to Czestochowa.
Buchner created numerous textbooks:
- Doresch Tob (Catechism for the Israelite Youth, 1825);
- Ocar laschon ha-kodesch (Dictionary of the Hebrew Language, 1830);
- Jesode ha-dat (Textbook of the Jewish Religion, 1836);
- More le-Cedaka (1837);
- True Judaism, or collection of the religious and moral foundations of the Israelites, taken from the classical works of the rabbis (1846);
- Kwiaty wschodnie (Flowers of the East, 1848).
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| SURNAME | Buchner, Abraham |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Teacher at the Warsaw Rabbinical School |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1789 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Krakow |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1869 |
| Place of death | Czestochowa |