Alfred Lévy (rabbi)

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Alfred Lévy

Alfred Lévy ( December 14, 1840 in Lunéville - July 23, 1919 in Pau ) was a French chief rabbi and from 1907 to 1919 chairman of the Consistoire central of France .

Life

Alfred Lévy entered the rabbinical seminary in Paris in 1860 , where he received his diploma in 1866. He then became a rabbi in Dijon for two years and then moved to Lunéville, where he worked as a rabbi for 11 years. In 1880 Alfred Lévy became Chief Rabbi of Lyon . In 1907 he succeeded Zadoc Kahn at the head of the Consistoire central israélite in Paris. He prevailed in the election against his opponent Israël Lévi , who was to become his successor in 1920.

Alfred Lévy wrote several historical works and was inducted into the Legion of Honor as Chevalier in 1888 .

He is the grandfather of Robert Gamzon , the founder of the Éclaireurs israélites de France , a secular Jewish scout movement in France that started in 1923 . His granddaughter Renée Lévy was murdered as a resistance fighter by the National Socialists in 1943 .

Works

  • L'amour du prochain: Sermon prononcé à l'occasion de son installation au siège communal de Dijon le samedi 22 juin 1867, Dijon 1867
  • Le temple: Sermon prononcé à l'occasion de la rentrée solennelle dans la Synagogue de Lunéville, Paris 1871
  • Le deuil et les cérémonies funèbres chez les Israélites: étude historique, Paris 1872
  • Notice sur les Israelites du Duché de Loraine, Paris 1885
  • Notice sur les Israélites de Lyon, Lyon 1894
  • Service funèbre célébré à la mémoire de MS Carnot, Président de l République Française, Lyon 1894
  • Les doctrines d'Israel: sermons, Lyon 1896
  • Pâques source de consolation, de dignité et d'espérance ..., Lyon 1899
  • Considérations sur le judaïsme, 1913
  • Consideérations sur le judaïsme, Paris 1913 (together with Honel Meiss)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michel Abitbol: Histoire des juifs . In: Tempus . Éditions Perrin, Paris 2016, ISBN 978-2-262-06807-3 , pp. 715 .
personal data
SURNAME Lévy, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French Grand Rabbi
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH Luneville
DATE OF DEATH July 23, 1919
Place of death Pau