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.
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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 |