Baruch Bendit Goitein

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Baruch Bendit Goitein (also: Baruch Benedikt G. , * around 1770 in Kojetín , Moravia ; † November 16, 1839 in Hőgyész , Hungary ) was a rabbi , called Kessef Nivchar after his main work published in 1827-28, a three-volume, methodological discussion of 160 talmudic questions. Baruch Goitein is the progenitor of the extensive Goitein family , from which many rabbis and scientists emerged.

Life

Baruch Goitein ( Hebrew ברוך בנדיט גויטין), whose surname is derived from his Moravian place of birth Kojetín , grew up speaking German in a family that belonged to the German culture in Hungary. He studied in the yeshiva of Moses Mintz (1750-1831), the Budapest chief rabbi.

It is not known when Baruch Goitein was appointed rabbi in Hőgyesz. He lived there in a one-story, modest apartment building that stood directly in the courtyard of the Shul , the synagogue. As a halachic authority, Rabbi Goitein was responsible for large parts of Tolna County in south-central Hungary.

His son Zvi Hirsch Hermann Goitein (1805–1860), author of Yedei Moshe (1905), an interpretation of the Mitzvot, followed him in the office of rabbi . He had four sons and three daughters.

The second eldest son of Reb Hirsch Hermann, Elijahu Menachem Goitein (1837-1902) succeeded the father as rabbi in Hőgyész and published Rab Berachot .

His son Eduard Ezechiel Goitein (1864-1914) became a district rabbi in Burgkunstadt , he wrote The Principle of Vengeance in Biblical and Talmudic Criminal Law . (One of his sons, in turn, was the orientalist Shlomo Dov (Fritz) Goitein (1900–1985).) Edward's brother Hirsch Goitein (1863–1903) became a rabbi in Copenhagen and appeared as the author of Optimism and Pessimism in Jewish Philosophy of Religion. A study of the treatment of the Theodicee in the same except for Maimonides in appearance. The youngest brother, Joseph Solomon (Shlomo) Goitein (born 1880), followed his father Elijahu Menachem in the fourth and last generation as rabbi of Hőgyész. In the summer of 1944 he was deported to Auschwitz and murdered there.

The youngest son of Hirsch Hermann Goitein and thus a grandson of Baruch Bendit Goitein was Gabor Gedalja Goitein , rabbi of the Israelite Religious Society in Karlsruhe, father of Rahel Straus and grandfather of Ernst Gabor Straus .

Work (selection)

  • Sefer Kesef Nivchar: kolel me'ah ṿe-shishim kelalim ha-nimtsa'im ba-Talmud uve-divre gedole rishonim ṿe-acharonim […] . MI Landau, Prague 1827–1828, 3 volumes.

literature

  • Rahel Straus: We lived in Germany . 3. Edition. DVA, Stuttgart 1962, p. 21 ff.
  • G. Herlitz, B. Kirschner (Ed.): Jüdisches Lexikon . Berlin 1928, vol. II, col. 1180
  • The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia , vol. 5, p. 11

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Magyar Zsidó Lexicon , p. 315
  2. ↑ Beit Hatfutsot: database entry for Baruch Benedek Goitein
  3. ↑ Encyclopedia.com: GOITEIN, BARUCH BENEDICT & Menachem Keren-Kratz: MARAMAROS, HUNGARY— THE CRADLE OF EXTREME ORTHODOXY , in: Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience , Volume 35, Issue 2, May 2015, Page 151
  4. ^ R. Straus: We lived in Germany , p. 22
  5. ^ Yad Vashem: Central database of the names of the Holocaust victims
personal data
SURNAME Goitein, Baruch Bendit
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goitein, Baruch Benedikt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION rabbi
DATE OF BIRTH around 1770
PLACE OF BIRTH Kojetín
DATE OF DEATH November 16, 1839
Place of death Hőgyész