Aron dancer

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Aron dancer in 1907
Aron Dancer, as a field rabbi in World War I, with EK II on the ribbon in the second buttonhole of his uniform jacket

Aron Tänzer ( January 30, 1871 in Preßburg - February 26, 1937 in Göppingen ) was a rabbi and author of numerous scientific publications.

Life

Aron Tanzer's father was a rabbi and his mother worked as a seamstress for the Preßburg Jews. At the age of 21, Aron Tänzer enrolled at the University of Berlin . He studied philosophy , German and Semitic philology . After he received his doctorate in 1895 , Aron Dancer tried to get a job as a rabbi. In October 1896 he successfully applied for the vacant rabbinical position in Hohenems.

The Jewish community of Hohenems also included those in the other communities in Vorarlberg and, from 1878 to 1914, also formally the Jews living in Tyrol. Dancer applied his extensive intellectual history training in numerous scientific publications as well as in the field of adult education. For example, he often gave lectures on literature and history for the Hohenems Education Club. In 1905 he published the history of the Jews in Hohenems, which is still considered the standard work today . His mindset and religious beliefs were shaped by liberal ideas and cultural openness.

From 1905 to 1907 Dancer was rabbi of the Jewish community of Merano and from September 1, 1907, became a rabbi at the Göppingen synagogue . He held this position, in which he was responsible for the Jebenhausen district rabbinate , until his death in 1937. Right at the beginning of the First World War , Dancer volunteered to work as a field rabbi . He served on the Eastern Front for three years. Dancer looked after the soldiers, helped in the hospital and set up people's kitchens for the needy population. Dancer was awarded several medals for his work in the field.

Dancer laid the foundation for a public library , later the city ​​library in Göppingen , since 1909 . Since 1921 he was an honorary member of the Göppingen veterans and military association "Kampfgemeinschaft". The Rabbiner-Dancer-Haus (Freihofstraße 46), the former rabbinate building, is reminiscent of dancers in Göppingen .

progeny

Dancer died on February 26, 1937. His death was not publicly noted. There was no obituary or obituary notice in the newspaper. Dancer was first married to Rosa, geb. Handler, married who died in 1912. In August 1913 he was married to Berta, née Strauss (* 1876), in his second marriage. Dancer left behind his wife Berta and six adult children. Tänzer's widow was deported to Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1942 , where she died on September 25, 1943. The grown-up children no longer lived in their parents' house when their father died: Fritz was a businessman in Tel Aviv , Irene lived in Budapest , Hugo worked as a businessman in Vienna and Ilse lived in London . Paul was a lawyer in Stuttgart and Erwin was still studying in Berlin . You survived the persecution of National Socialism .

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • Judaism and Evolution. After a lecture given in Innsbruck on May 4, 1903 on "Babel and the Bible" . Calvary, Berlin 1903
  • The history of the Jews in Hohenems . Unchanged reprint of the first edition by FW Ellmenreich's Verlag, Meran 1905. Verlagbuchhandlung H. Lingenhöle & Co., Bregenz 1982
  • Mixed marriage in religion, history and statistics of the Jews , Lamm, Berlin 1913
  • Brest-Litowsk: A Landmark of Russian Culture in World Wars , H. Hillger, Berlin 1917
  • The history of the Jews in Brest-Litowsk , Lamm, Berlin 1918
  • The history of the Jews in Jebenhausen and Göppingen . Reprint of the 1927 edition. Konrad, Weißenhorn 1988, ISBN 3-87437-274-X ( published by the Göppingen City Archives . Volume 23)
  • The history of the Jews in Württemberg , J. Kauffmann , Frankfurt am Main 1937

literature

  • Doris Kühner: Rabbi Dr. Aron Tänzer and the Jewish community in Göppingen . Approval work for the first service examination for teaching at elementary and secondary schools at the PH Schwäbisch Gmünd, Schwäbisch Gmünd 1981 (at the Ludwigsburg State Archives : EL 251 II Bü 1130) [not evaluated]
  • Karl Heinz Burmeister (Ed.): Rabbi Dr. Aron dancer. Scholar and philanthropist. 1871-1937 , Fink, Bregenz 1987 (publications of the Vorarlberg State Archives No. 3) ( online edition )
  • Uri R. Kaufmann: The Hohenems rabbis Abraham Kohn and Aron Tänzer and the Jewish endeavors of their time, in: Eva Grabherr (ed.), "... a very small community that lives only from memories". Jews in Hohenems (catalog of the Jewish Museum Hohenems), Hohenems 1996, pp. 45–57
  • Karl-Heinz Rueß : Rabbi Dr. Aron dancer: stations in his life . City of Göppingen, Göppingen 2003, ISBN 3-933844-43-6 [not evaluated]

Web links

Commons : Aron Dancer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Federico Steinhaus: Hohenems, Meran. A church that is going out, a church that is emerging . in: Landesmuseum Schloss Tirol: Special exhibition 2012: Zachor. Jews in southern Tyrol in the 19th and 20th centuries . 2012
  2. ↑ Federal Archives: Memorial Book. Victims of the persecution of the Jews under the National Socialist tyranny in Germany 1933–1945 (accessed on January 28, 2012)
  3. ^ Frankfurter Israelitisches Familienblatt dated December 29, 1916
personal data
SURNAME Dancer, Aron
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rabbi
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Hohenems
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1937
Place of death Goeppingen