Adolf Ury

Adolf Ury, 1911

Adolf Ury (also Simon-Adolphe Ury , last name also Uhry ) (born June 14, 1849 in Niederbronn , French Republic , † August 24, 1915 in Strasbourg , German Reich ) was chief rabbi and member of the state parliament.

Life

Adolf Ury attended the Jewish community school in Bischheim am Saum , the grammar school in Buchsweiler and then the Lyceum in Strasbourg. From 1868 to 1874 he studied at the rabbinical seminary (École rabbinique) in Paris. There he passed the second degree exam with a thesis on the trades in ancient Judaism according to the Bible and Talmud.

In 1871 he first voted for French citizenship, but returned to Lauterburg , German Empire , as a rabbi in 1874/75 . There he married Alice Auscher, the daughter of a wealthy parishioner.

In 1885 Ury went to Brumath as the successor to Salomon Lévy as rabbi . From 1886 he was also a lecturer in exegesis and Jewish history at the Strasbourg Rabbinical Seminary. From 1890/91 to 1899 he was Chief Rabbi of the Consistory of Lorraine in Metz, and from the beginning of 1900 Chief Rabbi of the Consistory of Lower Alsace in Strasbourg. He was chairman of a number of charities, including the Israelite Orphanage and the Israelite Sick Assistance Association.

He was elected a member of the first chamber of the state parliament, to which he belonged from 1912 until his death in 1915. Nathan Netter became his successor in the state parliament .

Adolf Ury's wife and son died two years before him. He himself died of cardiac paralysis after four weeks in bed.

Honors

Adolf Ury was awarded the Red Eagle Order 4th class and the Crown Order 3rd class .

Fonts

• Les Arts et les Métiers chez les Anciens Juifs selon la Bible et le Talmud. Dissertation, Paris.

literature

• Government and Parliament of Alsace-Lorraine 1911–1916. Biographical-statistical manual. Mulhouse 1911, p. 125.
• Herbert Friedenwald (Ed.): The American Jewish Year Book 5673. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1912, p. 135.
• Israelite family sheet. Hamburg, September 2 and September 8, 1915.
• General newspaper of Judaism . An impartial organ for all Jewish interests in politics, religion, literature, history, linguistics and fiction. Edited by Dr. Ludwig Philippson , 79th year, no. 37, Berlin 1915, supplement Der Gemeindebote p. 4, with obituary ( digitized from Compact Memory ).
• Ernest Hamburger : Jews in Public Life in Germany: Government Members, Officials and Parliamentarians in the Monarchical Era 1848–1918 , 1968, ISBN 978-3-16-829292-0 , p. 392, online .
• Jean-Philippe Chaumont, Monique Lévy (eds.): Dictionnaire biographique des rabbins et autres ministres du culte israélite. France et Algérie du Grand Sanhédrin (1807) à la loi de Séparation (1905). Paris 2007, p. 710 f.
• Entry UHRY, Simon-Adolphe. In: Michael Brocke and Julius Carlebach (editors), edited by Katrin Nele Jansen with the assistance of Jörg H. Fehrs and Valentina Wiedner: Biographisches Handbuch der Rabbis. Part 2: The rabbis in the German Empire, 1871–1945. K G Saur, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-24874-0 , p. 616.

Web links

• Biography of Adolf Ury at Alemannia Judaica
• Max Warschawski: Le Grand Rabbinat de Strasbourg et du Bas-Rhin.