Armand Kaminka
Armand Kaminka (also: Ahron / Aharon / Aaron Kaminka; born May 5, 1866 in Berdychiv ; died March 12, 1950 in Tel Aviv ) was a rabbi , Jewish scholar, translator and New Hebrew poet.
Life
Armand Kaminka was rabbi in Frankfurt (Oder) in 1893, rabbi in Prague from 1893 to 1897, and chief rabbi in Esseg ( Slavonia ) from September 22, 1897 to 1900 . Kaminka then lived in Vienna. From 1901 he was secretary of the Alliance Israélite Universelle and taught at the Beth Hamidrash in Vienna until 1924. From 1926 las Kaminka at the University of Vienna on the Talmud and Jewish philosophy of religion. He translated the works of Marcus Aurelius , Aeschylus , Sophocles and Euripides into Hebrew.
In 1938 he immigrated to Palestine .
He conformed to Theodor Herzl's ideas early on , then agitated against the first Zionist congress for fear that the congress might damage the existing settlements in Palestine and, in particular, prevent Edmond Rothschild from further support.
Herzl then made the following statements about him in his Zionist diaries :
- This Kaminka has to be remembered as the pattern of a weather vane. Sometimes he's for us, sometimes against us. His main concern, however, is whether "respected" people - that is, rich! - are there. This priest deserves a memorial in my diary.
And further:
- An hour after I entered this, a letter came from Kaminka, “congratulating me on my initiative”. So after he was unable to thwart it by insults, he congratulates [sic] on it. A type!
Kaminka then joined the “Congress Commission” after Herzl's admonition, but hesitated again and again to accept one of the most important papers at the Congress that Herzl had offered him, namely on the subject of “Colonization” out. Kaminka's presentation was taken over at the last minute by Adam Rosenberg, one of the first American Zionists and co-founder of the Shavei Zion in New York in 1891 (Rosenberg spoke from personal experience about the situation of the settlers and the position of the Jews in America).
Kaminka again opposed before the second congress to the point of making an unsuitable attempt to let the Chowewe Zionists majorize the congress, which clearly recognized Herzl as the head of the movement, in order to take over power and thus prevent the Zionist movement from “mere” Diplomacy ”(this conflict was fought out publicly in various papers in May / June 1898 and then fizzled out without being able to affect Herzl's course).
Publications
- My trip to Jerusalem , Frankfurt a. M., J. Kauffmann , 1913
- Moses Maimonides as spiritual leader in our age , Vienna, Verlag des Maimonides-Institut, 1926
- Contributions to the explanation of the Ezra Apocalypse and the reconstruction of its original Hebrew text , Breslau, Marcus, 1934
- Studies on the Septuagint based on the twelve little books of prophets , Frankfurt a. M., J. Kauffmann, 1928
swell
- Theodor Herzl, letters and diaries. Seven volumes, ed. by Alex Bein , Hermann Greive , Moshe Schaerf, Julius H. Schoeps , Johannes Wachten, passim, Berlin / Frankfurt a. M./Wien 1983–1996.
- Julius Hans Schoeps (Ed.): New Lexicon of Judaism. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh / Munich 1992, ISBN 3-570-09877-X , p. 253.
- Esriel Hildesheimer , Mordechai Eliav: Das Berliner Rabbinerseminar 1873-1938 , Berlin 2008, ISBN 9783938485460 , p. 154
literature
- Kaminka Aharon. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 3, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1965, p. 207 f. (Direct links on p. 207 , p. 208 ).
- Entry Armand Kaminka in the Jewish Encyclopedia
Web links
- Literature by and about Armand Kaminka in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kaminka, Armand |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kaminka, Ahron; Kaminka, Aharon; Kaminka, Aaron |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Rabbi, Jewish scholar, translator and neo-Hebrew poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 5, 1866 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berdychiv |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 12, 1950 |
| Place of death | Tel Aviv |