Abraham Stein

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Abraham Stein (born January 13, 1818 in Wanfried , Kurhessen ; died September 18, 1884 in Prague , Austria-Hungary ) was a German rabbi .

Life

Abraham Stein was the son of Nathan Stein. From 1824 to 1826, until his death, he was a private student of his uncle in Eschwege . Then he returned to Wanfried. In 1831 he worked as a private tutor in Osterode , Kingdom of Hanover , where he conducted private studies of the Talmud and Latin .

Abraham Stein studied from 1832 to 1834 at the Israelite teacher training college in Kassel . Then he worked as a teacher and tutor . He studied the Talmud with the regional rabbi Nathan Adler . He graduated from high school in Fulda as an external student.

From 1842 he continued his studies in Bonn and from 1844 in Marburg . There he passed the Hessian rabbinical state examination in 1844. In 1843 he became a member of the Bonner Wingolf .

From 1845 to 1847 he was head of the teachers' college in Kassel. He was a supporter of the conservative "Theological Assembly" (1846) Zacharias Frankels .

In 1848 he received his doctorate in Jena on Die Accente des Decalog .

In 1848 Stein became rabbi in Filehne , Province of Posen , and in 1850 in Old Scotland (Polish: Stare Szkoty) near Danzig . In 1850 he was discussed as a regional rabbi in Kassel, but then became rabbi of the Old Scottish Community in Danzig. From 1864 until his death he was rabbi of the reform community at the Maisel Synagogue in Prague, and from 1858 to 1868 he was also a Talmud teacher at the Talmud Torah school there directed by Solomon Juda Rapoport .

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literature

  • Albert Stern: Open letter to Dr. AS, rabbi in Prague. Plague 1870.
  • Markus Hirsch: Funeral speech, spoken at the coffin of the deceased Dr. AS, rabbi and preacher of the Meisel Synagogue in Prague. G. Schmelkes, Prague 1884.
  • Samuel Back: A word of truth, spoken at the coffin of Rabbi Dr. AS D. Kuh, Prague 1884.
  • Moritz Tauber: Honor to which honor is due! Words of mourning spoken at the coffin of the blessed Dr. AS G. Schmelkes, Prague 1884.
  • Meyer Kayserling : The Jewish literature of Moses Mendelssohn up to the present. Berlin 1896, pp. 765, 821, 850 ( digitized version ).
  • Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography. Volume V. Chernivtsi (Czernowitz) 1925–1931, p. 605.
  • Samuel Echt : The History of the Jews in Danzig. Leer (Ostfriesland) 1972, p. 357 f.
  • Rudolf Wlaschek: Biographia Judaica Bohemiae. Dortmund 1995, p. 200.
  • Hanna Domańska: Żydzi znad Gdańskiej Zatoki. Warsaw 1997.
  • Andreas Brämer : Rabbi and board member. On the history of the Jewish community in Germany and Austria 1808-1871. Vienna 1999, pp. 168, 217.
  • Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century. Volume 3: S – Z, Register. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , no.10015.
  • STONE, Abraham, Dr. In: Michael Brocke and Julius Carlebach (eds.), Edited by Carsten Wilke : Biographisches Handbuch der Rabbis. Part 1: The rabbis of the emancipation period in the German, Bohemian and Greater Poland countries 1781–1871. K G Saur, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-598-24871-7 , p. 832 f.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Stein, Abraham. In: Jewish Encyclopedia .
  2. ↑ Complete directory of Wingolf, Lichtenberg 1991.
  3. ↑ The Faithful Guardian of Zion. February 1, 1850, p. 39 f. ( uni-frankfurt.de at Compact Memory ).
personal data
SURNAME Stein, Abraham
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rabbi
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1818
PLACE OF BIRTH Wanfried
DATE OF DEATH September 18, 1884
Place of death Prague