Albert Katz

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Albert Katz (born July 17, 1858 in Łódź , Russian Empire ; died December 16, 1923 in Berlin ) was a German writer of Jewish faith and a supporter of the Zionist movement. He lived in Berlin-Pankow. Katz was editor of the Allgemeine Zeitung des Judentums , employee of the Jewish press and co-founder of the Serubabel (1886-1888), which campaigned for the settlement of Israel by Jews.

His book The True Talmud Jew was an answer to August Rohling's anti-Semitic book The Talmud Jew . In 1892 he translated Isaak Bär Levinsohn's Efes Damim into German under the title The Blood Lie .

Fonts (selection)

  • The true Talmudic Jew - The most important principles of Talmudic literature on the moral life of man. E. Apolant, Berlin 1893.
  • The Jews in China. Berlin 1900.
  • Biographical character pictures from Jewish history and legend. Verlag für Moderne Literatur, Berlin 1905 ( online version ).

literature

  • Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945. Edited by the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. Saur, Munich 1988 ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 185 ( online version ).
  • Hermann Simon : Albert Katz, a Pankow Jewish writer. In: Bund der Antifaschisten Berlin-Pankow eV (Hrsg.): Jüdisches Leben in Pankow. A historical documentation. Edition Hentrich, Berlin 1993, p. 47 ff., ISBN 978-3-89468-099-2 .
  • Katz, Albert. In: Gabriele von Glasenapp , Hans Otto Horch : Ghettoliteratur. A documentation on the German-Jewish literary history of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Max Niemeyer, Tübingen 2005, pp. 926f.
  • Katz, Albert , in: Encyclopaedia Judaica , 1972, Volume 10, Col. 821

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personal data
SURNAME Katz, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Łódź
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 1923
Place of death Berlin