Adolf Kurrein

Adolf Kurrein (born January 28, 1846 in Trebitsch , Moravia , Austrian Empire ; died October 23, 1919 in Teplice , Czechoslovakia ) was an Austrian rabbi and Zionist .

The religious doctrine of the Torah , Bielitz 1887

Life

Adolf Kurrein lost his father at the age of two and grew up with his sister Katharina with his mother, a seamstress. After receiving a thorough Jewish education, he left his parents' home at the age of 15 and moved to Brno , where he graduated from high school in 1866 . He then went to Vienna, where he heard lectures from Adolf Jellinek , with whom he was to become a lifelong friend. In 1871 he graduated from the University of Vienna with a degree in philosophy, history and mathematics with a doctorate. A year later he received the rabbi diploma . Now he held the office of rabbi in various places: in 1872 in St. Pölten, 1877 in Linz , 1883 in Bielitz in Austrian Silesia , where he mainly worked as a secondary school teacher, and in 1888 in Teplitz-Schönau . In January 1877 he married Jessie Loewe (1849–1934), daughter of the orientalist Louis Loewe ; two of her five children were murdered in Auschwitz concentration camp . The son Viktor Kurrein (1881–1974) was also a rabbi in Linz until he fled to England in 1938. Under the impression of Theodor Herzl , Adolf Kurrein became involved towards the end of his life for the newly emerging political Zionism . He wrote numerous articles and also made some contributions to the Jewish Encyclopedia .

Collected sermons

• 1882: Maggid le-Adam
• 1880: Magid Mereshit

Further publications (excerpt)

• 1900: Do the Jews need Christian blood
• 1899: Bible, Paganism, and Gentile Conversion
• 1898: Judaa and Rome
• 1897: the tombstone
• 1896: The Kaddish
• 1893: Patriarchal pictures: I. Abraham
• 1892: Peace
• 1892: The Duties of Ownership
• 1890: The social question in Judaism
• 1890: work under workers
• 1887: Dream and Truth
• 1887: The religious doctrine of the Torah
• 1885: The woman in the Jewish people

literature

• Philipp:  Kurrein Adolf. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 4, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1969, p. 364 f. (Direct links on p. 364 , p. 365 ).
• Jacek Proszyk: The history of Jews in Bielsko (Bielitz) and Biala between 17th century and 1939 . Haskala, Jaworze 2014, ISBN 978-83-936155-2-0 .

Web links

Commons : Adolf Kurrein  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Adolf Kurrein in the catalog of the German National Library
• Biography of Adolf Kurrein (English)
• Peter Kraft: Presentation of the history of the Jews in Upper Austria ( Memento from February 6, 2007 in the Internet Archive )