Ascher Loew
Ascher Löw (also: Ascher Löw Wallerstein, born 1754 in Minsk ; died on July 23, 1837 in Karlsruhe ) was an Oberlandesrabbi in the Grand Duchy of Baden , a Talmudic scholar and member of the Baden Higher Council of Israelites .
Family and career
Ascher Löw ( Hebrew אשר בן אריה לייב), Son of Rabbi Aryeh Löb ben Ascher (-Günzburg), called Scha'agat Arjeh ("Roar of the Lion"), was born in what was then Lithuania , now Belarus , and grew up in Smilowitz (Smilovichi), Volozhin, Minsk , Glogau , Frankfurt am Main and since 1765 in Metz . He was tutored by his father, in Metz also by Rabbi Meir, and since 1769 at his father's yeshiva .
Rabbinate
In 1783, after his seminary , Ascher Löw took up his first rabbinical position in Niederwerrn near Schweinfurt , where he married Gitel, the daughter of the court factor Samuel Wolf. He succeeded his father-in-law as the regional rabbi of the Würzburg knighthood. Two years later he moved to Wallerstein in Bavaria and took over the office of state rabbi there. In 1809 he followed a call to Karlsruhe as chief regional and city rabbi and spiritual member of the Israelite Council. He had turned down offers from Metz and Paris . In the newly created Oberrat in Karlsruhe, Rabbi Ascher Löw was responsible for religious instruction, determining the number of students and marriage. In addition to his extensive knowledge of the Talmud, he was also well versed in German, French and Italian literature and was considered strictly orthodox, but at the same time open-minded, B. for reforms of the school system.
Up to 200 students were among his circle of Karlsruhe, including the later Altona rabbi Jakob Ettlinger . Other well-known students were Abraham J. Adler (Worms), Jakob Auerbach , Moses Bloch, Löb Bodenheimer , Löb Ettlinger, Isaac Friedberg, Jakob Löwenstein , Moses Präger , Leopold Schott , Elias and Benjamin Willstätter and his son Abraham. When Rabbi Löw fell ill and went blind, the Karlsruhe rabbinate candidate Elias Willstätter joined his side as an assistant in 1827 .
Most of the written work of Rabbi Löw has not survived. In the responses of his father She'elot u-Teshubot Sha'agat ha-Arye ha-Hadashot (printed posthumously in Wilna 1873) there are presumably passages by Ascher Löw.
One son, Abraham , was born out of his marriage to Gitel.
In his second marriage he married Sara Worms from Saarlouis , widow of the Mainz chief rabbi Samuel Wolf Levi (1751-1813). She died in Giessen in 1854 .
Rabbi Löw is buried in the Jewish cemetery on Kriegsstrasse in Karlsruhe.
Fonts
- Ascher Löw: Speech given on December 31, 1818 at the funeral services for his royal. Your Highness the most blessed Grand Duke Karl: in the synagogue of Karlsruhe from the Grand Duke. Oberrathe and Oberland rabbi . Karlsruhe: Müller, [1819].
literature
- Friedrich von Weech : Ascher Löw , in: Badische Biographien , Part II, Heidelberg 1875, p. 31 f. ( Digitized version )
- Carsten Wilke : Ascher Löw . In: Jewish life in Baden 1809 to 2009. 200 years of the Upper Council of the Israelites of Baden. Festschrift . Ostfildern, 2009. p. 224 f.
- Entry LÖW, Ascher. In: Michael Brocke and Julius Carlebach (editors), edited by Carsten Wilke: Biographisches Handbuch der Rabbis. Part 1: The rabbis of the emancipation period in the German, Bohemian and Greater Poland countries 1781–1871. K G Saur, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-598-24871-7 , p. 616 f.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Levi, Samuel Wolf. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Low, Ascher |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Löw Wallerstein, Ascher |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chief rabbi in Baden and Talmudist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1754 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Minsk |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 23, 1837 |
| Place of death | Karlsruhe |