Benyamin Barslai
Benyamin Zeew Barslai (born on December 9, 1923 in Mannheim as Walter Biegeleisen ; died on February 7, 2005 in Bremen ) was a German rabbi, most recently a regional rabbi , judge , cantor and honorary professor in Bremen.
Life
Barslai was the son of Salomon Biegeleisen, prayer leader and religion teacher in the Jewish communities as well as representative of the South Hessian state rabbi . He attended high school in Bensheim until 1934 . In 1934/35 the family emigrated to the League of Nations mandate for Palestine . After graduating from high school in Israel and studying at rabbinical universities in Bnei Berak , he worked as a rabbi in his new home country until 1960.
Barslai married as early as 1946; The marriage resulted in two children: the son became, like the father and grandfather, state rabbi for Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein, the daughter is married in the USA.
Barslai returned to Germany in 1960. He devoted himself intensively to the Judeo-Christian dialogue. His first rabbinate was in Gelsenkirchen , then in Essen and in Saarbrücken . He studied Oriental Studies and Protestant Theology at Saarland University . In 1965 he received his doctorate under Professor Helmut Gätje at the Faculty of Protestant Theology.
In 1965 he founded the first Jewish student community at a German university after the Second World War . Other pastoral positions were in Malmö in 1969 and a rabbinate in Biel from 1971 to 1981 . In 1985 he moved to Bremen, where he worked as a regional rabbi for a long time. He also taught at the University of Bremen . He was chairman of the Society for Christian Cooperation - Brotherhood - in Bremen eV
As the longest serving German rabbi, he died in 2005 and was buried in Israel .
Barslai is the author of numerous books on Judeo-Christian understanding and reconciliation.
literature
- Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . Volume: supplementary volume . A – Z. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2008, ISBN 978-3-86108-986-5 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Benyamin Barsilai [sic], State Rabbi of Bremen, died yesterday at the age of 81 in Bremen", hagalil.com.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Barslai, Benyamin |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Barslai, Benyamin Zeew (full name); Bending iron, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German rabbi |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 9, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mannheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 7, 2005 |
| Place of death | Bremen |