Adolf Ehrlich

Adolf Ehrlich (1896)

Adolf Ehrlich (born September 20, 1837 in Jelgava , Courland ; died March 7, 1913 in Tilsit , Hebrew first name: Abraham-Abele אברהם אבלי אדולף ארליך) was a German rabbi and teacher in Latvia and East Prussia and a leading rabbi of the Courland Jewish Community.

Life

Avraham Ben-Aharon Ben-Zion Ehrlich was born in Jelgava (Mitau), Kurland Governorate, Russian Empire , into a German-speaking family. His parents raised their children according to "Derech Eretz" (a behavioral theory based on the philosophy of Samson Raphael Hirsch , which tries to harmonize orthodox Jewish teaching with modern everyday life). Attendance at the public school in Mitau and religious training in the Talmud from his maternal grandfather. From 1858 he taught at the Jewish school in Jaunjelgava (Friedrichstadt). In 1861 he went to Berlinto the Friedrichsgymnasium. From 1865 he studied philosophy at the University of Berlin and in 1868 he submitted his doctoral thesis "De iudicio ab Aristotele de re publica Platonica facto" in Halle.

From 1870 he taught at the Jewish school in Berlin. He was a rabbi in Neidenburg , East Prussia, for a year and a half . In 1872 he was elected Chief Rabbi of Riga , but not confirmed. From 1876 he was appointed head of the Jewish school in Riga by the Russian government for 20 years . From 1903 until his retirement in 1912 he was rabbi of the Jewish community in Tilsit. He was married to Nannette geb. Jacobi, daughter of Mayer Jacobi and Sarah Miriam née Goldberg; her brother Hosea Jacobi was the chief rabbi of Zagreb (quasi of Yugoslavia).

His grandson is the Israeli composer Prof. Abel Ehrlich .

Web links

• Literature by and about Adolf Ehrlich in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Entry in the Biographical Portal of Rabbis (BHR)
• Ehrlich, Adolph (Abraham Abele) in the 1901-1906 edition of the Jewish Encyclopedia (in English)