Adolf Kober

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Adolf Kober (born September 3, 1879 in Beuthen , Upper Silesia, † December 30, 1958 in New York City ) was a rabbi and historian.

Life

"Land Register of the Cologne Jewish Quarter 1135–1425" (Exhibition Praetorium Cologne)

Kober studied from 1898 to 1907 at the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau and at the University of Breslau and received his doctorate there in 1903 with a thesis on the medieval history of the Jews in Cologne . The Semicha gained Kober 1907. After that he was from 1908 to 1918 the district rabbi in Wiesbaden .

In 1918 Kober took over the post of rabbi in one of the largest Jewish communities in Germany at the time in Cologne . In 1922 he founded a poor fund there. In 1925, Kober was responsible for the nationally highly regarded section on the Jewish history of the “Millennium Exhibition of the Rhineland”, which took place at the Cologne exhibition center. In 1928, Kober founded the “Jüdisches Lehrhaus” in Cologne as a site for Jewish adult education and in the same year was responsible for the content planning of the Jewish press pavilion at the great Cologne cultural show “Pressa”. In addition to his activity as a rabbi, Kober devoted himself to the history of the Rhenish Jews in numerous scientific publications. In the 1930s he was co-editor of the respected journal for the history of the Jews in Germany .

In 1939 Kober emigrated to the USA , where he continued to work as a rabbi in New York until his death in 1958 and was awarded a research grant from the American Academy for Jewish Research . In the USA, too, he continued to deal with the history of Rhenish Judaism. He only visited Cologne in 1953 and 1957.

In 1963 the city of Cologne named a street after Adolf Kober in the Stammheim district on the right bank of the Rhine .

Works

  • Studies on the medieval history of the Jews in Cologne on the Rhine, especially their property . Breslau 1903 (Univ. Diss.).
  • On the history of the Jews in Wiesbaden in the first half of the 19th century , Wiesbaden 1913
  • Land register of Cologne's Jewish quarter 1135–1425. A contribution to the medieval topography, legal history and statistics of the city of Cologne . Bonn 1920 (= publications of the Society for Rhenish History 34)
Reprint of this edition: Droste, Düsseldorf 2000, ISBN 3-7700-7611-7
From the history of the Jews in the Rhineland . In: Rhenish Association for Monument Preservation and Heritage Protection. 1931 issue 1. Düsseldorf 1931, p. 11 ff.
  • Karl Marx 's father and the Napoleonic exceptional law against the Jews 1808 . In: Yearbook of the Cologne History Association, Vol. 14. Cologne 1932
  • From the history of the Jews in the Rhineland , in: Rheinischer Verein für Heimatpflege und Heimatschutz 1/24 (1931). Pp. 11-98.
  • Cologne, The Jewish Publication Society of America , Philadelphia 1940
  • Jewish Monuments of the Middle Ages in Germany. One Hundred and Ten Tombstone Inscriptions from Speyer, Cologne, Nuremberg and Worms (1085-c. 1428) . Part 1. In: Proceedings of the American Academy for Jewish Research 14 (1944). Pp. 149–220, part 2, in: Ibid. 15 (1945). Pp. 1-91.
  • The universities for rabbinical training in Germany . In: Festschrift for the 80th birthday of Leo Baeck on May 23, 1953, London [1953], pp. 19–28.

literature

  • Tobias Arand: The Jewish department of the Cologne “Millennium Exhibition of the Rhineland” 1925. Planning, structure and public-contemporary perception , in: Jewish life in the Rhineland - From the Middle Ages to the Present , edited by Monika Grübel and Georg Mölich. Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2005. pp. 194–213
  • Horst Matzerath , Elfi Pracht , Barbara Becker-Jákli (eds.): Jüdisches Schicksal in Köln 1918-1945 - Catalog for the exhibition of the Historical Archives of the City of Kön / NS Documentation Center (November 8, 1988 to January 22, 1989, in the Cologne City Museum / Alte Wache), City of Cologne 1988, pages 24–26
  • Biographical handbook of the rabbis , edited by Michael Brocke and Julius Carlebach , part 2, Die Rabbiner im deutschen Reich 1871–1945 , edited by Katrin Nele Jansen, Volume 1, Munich 2009, pp. 336–339
  • Alwin Müller-Jerina: Adolf Kober (1879–1958). An attempt at a bio-bibliography on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of his death , in: Menora 1 (1990), pp. 278-296
  • NN: Kober, Adolf , in: Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie , Vol. 5. Munich 1999. P. 635
  • On the history and culture of the Jews in the Rhineland , with contributions by Adolf Kober, Elisabeth Moses and others. Friedrich Wilhelm Bredt; newly published and introduced by Falk Wiesemann , Düsseldorf 1985
  • Julius H. Schoeps (Ed.): Neues Lexikon des Judentums , Bertelsmann Lexikon-Verlag, Gütersloh 1992, ISBN 3-570-09877-X , p. 265.

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personal data
SURNAME Kober, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-born rabbi and historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Bytom , Upper Silesia
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 1958
Place of death New York City