David Wolf Landau
David Landau (also David Wolf Landau or Pollak David , born 1742 in Lissa ; died on December 4, 1818 in Dresden ) was the first chief rabbi of the Jewish community in Dresden.
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Born in 1742 in Lissa in the Netzedistrikt in Greater Poland , David Landau was a son of Rabbi Wolf-Seev Landau (d. 1812). He was wealthy and head of a yeshiva (Torah school) and a Dajan , d. H. Judge at a Beth Din and a friend of Akiba Eger . He married Parche (died 1784) in his hometown. In 1788 he became chief rabbi in Flatau in West Prussia , where he waived a salary. In 1790, as a deputy of the burned Lissaer in Warsaw, he obtained a tax remission for three years and their reduction for a further seven years.
From 1803 until his death he was then chief rabbi of the Jewish community in Dresden , the only one in the Kingdom of Saxony at the time . At that time it comprised about 500 Jews who gathered in seven private prayer rooms. He was supported in his work by the community leaders Mendel Schie , Samuel Kaim and Hirsh Beer. Landau was an admirer of Elector and King Friedrich August I and published several respectful greetings and acknowledgments. In this way he also paved the way for the recognition of the Jewish community, which only took place after his work.
Landau had both rabbinical and mathematical knowledge, which probably contributed to the fact that his son became the first teacher at the Jewish community school after his death. He was succeeded by Abraham Levy in the office of Chief Rabbi, followed by Zacharias Frankel . He was the grandfather of the Chief Rabbi Wolf Landau .
literature
- Kerstin Hagemeyer: Jewish life in Dresden. Exhibition on the occasion of the consecration of the new Dresden synagogue on November 9, 2001 . Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-910005-27-6 .
- Michael Brocke, Julius Carlebach (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der Rabbis / Die Rabbis der Emanzipationszeit in the German, Bohemian and Greater Poland countries 1781-1871 , KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 978-3-59824871-9 , p. 578 , Entry 1007. limited book preview at books.google.de
Web links
- David Wolf Landau in the German Digital Library (frontispiece)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Louis Lewin: A Judentag from South and New East Prussia. (End), in: Monthly for the History and Science of Judaism, Volume 59 (NF 23), H. 10/12 (October / December 1915), pp. 278-300 JSTOR 23080322
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Landau, David Wolf |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Landau, David; David, Pollak |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chief rabbi |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1742 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lissa |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 4, 1818 |
| Place of death | Dresden |