Arthur Levy (rabbi)
Arthur Levy ( June 2, 1881 in Hochfelden - 1961 in Kiryat Bialik , Israel ) was a German rabbi and author.
Life
Levy, son of the dealer Raphael Levy and Julie Blum, studied after attending high school in Zabern and Colmar from 1900 to 1906 in Berlin and Colmar. In 1908 he received his doctorate from the University of Strasbourg . Since 1911 he was married to Mirjam Barth, a daughter of the orientalist Jakob Barth . From 1911 to 1914 Arthur Levy was rabbi in Berlin (Schöneberg and Lessingstrasse Synagogue ) and from 1914 to 1918 field rabbi in the 9th Army . From 1918 to 1935 he worked again as a rabbi in Berlin (Schöneberg). In 1935 he emigrated to Palestine and became a rabbi in Kiryat Bialik.
Works
Gravestones in the Jewish cemetery in Bielsk Podlaski , photo from the book by Arthur Levy: Jewish gravestone art in Eastern Europe. (Berlin 1923, p. 26)
- Jewish tomb art in Eastern Europe. Pionier publishing house, Berlin 1923 ( digitized at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main )
literature
- Sabine Hank, Hermann Simon , Uwe Hank, field rabbi in the German armed forces of the First World War , Berlin 2013, published by the Stiftung Neue Synagoge Berlin - Centrum Judaicum and the Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr , ISBN 978-3-938485-76- 7 , Writings of the Centrum Judaicum, Vol. 7 (not evaluated)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Marriage Register StA Berlin XIIa, No. 220/1911
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Levy, Arthur |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German rabbi and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 2, 1881 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hochfelden |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1961 |
| Place of death | Kiryat Bialik , Israel |