Alexander Stein (rabbi)

Alexander Stein (born October 1, 1843 in Grombach ; died January 30, 1914 in Karlsruhe ) was Honorary Rabbi of the Jewish community of Worms .

Life

He was the son of the Jewish trader Nathan Stein and his wife Zimmel Wacker. In 1850 his father moved his business from Grombach to Heilbronn , where Alexander Stein attended grammar school, then in Wertheim and then in Karlsruhe. In Karlsruhe he received theological lessons from Rabbi Josel Altmann. In 1862 he graduated from high school.

In October 1862 he enrolled in Breslau . There he also attended the Fraenckel'sche Stiftung Jewish Theological Seminar . He received his doctorate in Halle an der Saale in 1866 with the dissertation Linguae hebraicae formationes quomodo in Mischna sint excultae, quomodo vocum significationes amplificatae, verborumque copia sit aucta. Adiecto appendice: Qua ratione quibusque legibus lingua Mishna ïca aliengena quaedam sit mutuata. In the same year he passed the theological state examination in Karlsruhe. He was ordained by Josel Altmann and David Geissmar from Sinsheim .

In September 1867, at the age of 24, he was appointed rabbi in Worms . He held this office for 43 years until he retired in 1910. He did a great job building up the community in Worms and was recognized by both Orthodox and Liberal Jews as well as by church and political institutions. In 1877 he introduced the reform service with an organ. When he retired, he was awarded the Knight's Cross First Class of the Grand Ducal Hessian Order of Merit by Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig of Hesse and by the Rhine , and the rabbinical community appointed him Honorary Rabbi.

In March 1870 he married Caroline Mainzer, daughter of the businessman Maier Mainzer from Lorsch .

literature

• Chaim David Lippe: Bibliographical lexicon of the entire Jewish literature of the present, and address indicator. A lexically ordered scheme with addresses of rabbis, preachers, teachers, cantors, supporters of Jewish literature in the old and new world, together with precise bibliographical details of all writings and journals published by contemporary Jewish authors, especially those relating to Jewish literature. Vienna 1879–81, p. 470 (Reprint: Olms Weidmann, Hildesheim 2003, ISBN 978-3-487-11856-7 ).
• Markus Brann (editor): History of the Jewish Theological Seminary (Fraenckel'sche Foundation) in Breslau. Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the institution, Breslau 1904, p. 196.
• Fritz Reuter : Warmaisa. 1000 years of Jews in Worms. Stadtarchiv Worms, Worms 1984, ISBN 3-61-000405-3 , p. 163f.
• Samson Rothschild: Officials of the Worms Jewish community (mid-18th century to the present). J. Kaufmann Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1920, pp. 37-49. ( Digitized version )
• Hans Appenzeller and Arnold Scheuerbrandt: Three hundred and fifty years of Jewish life in Grombach. In: Stadt Bad Rappenau (ed.): Grunbach uff dem Creichgöw , Bad Rappenau 2010, pp. 365–385, here p. 375.
• Entry STEIN, Alexander, Dr. In: Michael Brocke and Julius Carlebach (editors), edited by Carsten Wilke : Biographisches Handbuch der Rabbis. Part 1: The rabbis of the emancipation period in the German, Bohemian and Greater Poland countries 1781–1871. K G Saur, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-598-24871-7 , pp. 833f.