Akiba Eger

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Akiba Eger. Hebrew caption: "Figure of Rab HaGaon he-chassid, master of all sons of exile, our teacher Akiba Eiger of blessed memory"

Akiba Eger ( Aqiba Eger , Akiba ben Mose Eger , Akiba the Younger . Akiba ben Moses Gins from Eisenstadt ; born on November 8, 1761 in Eisenstadt , Burgenland; died on October 12, 1837 in Posen ) was a rabbi in Märkisch-Friedland and Poses and is considered a talmudic authority.

Life

Akiba Eger, a grandson of Akiba Eger the Elder (1720-1758), rabbi in Pressburg , attended the yeshiva of his uncle, Rabbi Benjamin Wolf Eger in Breslau , and then became Rosh-Yeshiva himself in Polish Lissa , rabbi in Märkisch-Friedland (1791–1815) and later in Poznan.

Eger was considered one of the most important Jewish scholars of his time as well as the unofficial chief rabbi of the province of Posen . He repeatedly appeared as a defender of Orthodoxy against the innovations of the Maskilim , but also made important reform proposals, e.g. B. in the school system, and was also politically committed to improving the position of the Jews in relation to the authorities. A number of the welfare institutions he founded survived until the Second World War .

His son Salomon Eger followed him in the chief rabbinate of Poznan .

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Literature (selection)

  • Saul Isaac Kämpf: Biography of the famous and most blessed Mr. Akiva Eger Oberrabinen zu Posen, author of a collection of legal opinions, together with a Hebrew memorial poem on his passing. Lissa-Salzuflen 1838.
  • Heinrich Loewe : Akiba Eger the Younger. In: Jewish Lexicon . Volume 2, Berlin 1927, p.?.
  • John F. Oppenheimer (Red.) And a .: Lexicon of Judaism. 2nd Edition. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh u. a. 1971, ISBN 3-570-05964-2 , col. 176.
  • Julius Hans Schoeps (Ed.): New Lexicon of Judaism. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh / Munich 1992, ISBN 3-570-09877-X , p.
  • Carsten Wilke : The rabbis of the emancipation period in the German, Bohemian and Greater Poland countries 1781–1871 (= Biographical Handbook of Rabbis , edited by Michael Brocke and Julius Carlebach , part 1). Volume 1, Saur, Munich 2004, pp. 259-263.

Web links

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Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Eger, Akiba
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Rabbi and Talmudic Authority
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1761
PLACE OF BIRTH Eisenstadt , Burgenland
DATE OF DEATH October 12, 1837
Place of death Poses