Alphonse Levy

Alphonse Levy (born November 19, 1838 in Dresden ; died January 25, 1917 in Berlin ) was a German-Jewish publicist. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Alphonse Müller and Ernst Maurer .

Life

Alphonse Levy was born the son of a cigar manufacturer. He studied the Talmud with his uncle David Wolf Landau and Zacharias Frankel , with whom he was also related, and attended the Jewish school and the Dreikönigschule in Dresden . He was editor of the Dresdner Nachrichten , the Dresdner Zeitung and the Sächsische Dorfzeitung .

Levy stood up as a publicist for Jewish equality and fought anti-Semitism . From 1894 to 1912 he was general secretary of the Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith . Since 1895 the magazine of the association Im deutscher Reich appeared under his direction . He directed the fate of the paper for more than two decades until 1916 and published numerous articles in it himself.

Levy was buried in the Weissensee Jewish Cemetery .

Works

Jean Jacques Rousseau. Lecture given on February 21, 1879 at the Mendelssohn Association in Dresden , R. Skrzeczek, Loebau (West Prussia) 1879
"In the castle cellar" and other stories (under the pseudonym "Ernst Maurer"), Zwickau i. S .: Zückler 1891
The education of Jewish youth in handicrafts and soil culture , Berlin: Billig 1895 ( online )
History of the Jews in Saxony , Berlin: Calvary 1900 ( online )
Experienced - Stories from Jewish family life , Berlin: Hesperus-Verl. 1914

literature

Michael Düsing : Levy, Alphonse . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
Avraham Barkai : "Defend yourself!" - The Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith (CV) 1893-1938 , Munich 2002
Dominic Bitzer: In the German Empire . The journalistic organ of the Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith , Diss., Aachen 2013 ( online )
Levy, Alphonse. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 15: Kura – Lewa. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-22695-3 , pp. 351-355.

Individual evidence

↑ Norbert Weiß , Jens Wonneberger : Poets, thinkers, literati from six centuries in Dresden . Verlag Die Scheune, Dresden 1997, ISBN 3-931684-10-5 , p. 117.

personal data
SURNAME	Levy, Alphonse
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Müller, Alphonse (pseudonym); Maurer, Ernst (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-Jewish publicist
DATE OF BIRTH	November 19, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dresden
DATE OF DEATH	January 25, 1917
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Norbert Weiß , Jens Wonneberger : Poets, thinkers, literati from six centuries in Dresden . Verlag Die Scheune, Dresden 1997, ISBN 3-931684-10-5 , p. 117.