David ben Mose Frankel

David ben Mose Fränkel also: David Fränkel or David Fraenkel (born July 20, 1779 in Berlin ; died May 18, 1865 in Dessau ) was a German-Jewish publicist .

Life

David ben Mose Fränkel was the son of the rabbi Mose ben Abraham Fränkel and became director of the Israelite School in Dessau in 1791 and a member of the Jewish consistory in the Kingdom of Westphalia in 1807 (until 1813).

He was editor of the monthly Sulamith founded in 1806 . Journal for the promotion of culture and humanity among the Jewish nation (German, with Hebrew supplements). Only 8 volumes of this magazine had appeared up to 1846. It was the first Jewish magazine in German.

David Fränkel also founded (1835) the non-profit papers for science, school and life .

He also translated parts of the Bible from the Masoretic text ( Pentateuch and Josua , Dessau 1815).

Other works

• Establishment of the Jewish free school in Dessau , Dessau 1802
• News from the Jewish secondary and free school in Dessau , Dessau 1804
• The Situation of the Jews in Older and Modern Times. A word of consolation and admonition , Dessau 1808

literature

• Simon Dubnow : World History of the Jewish People, Authorized Translator from Russian , Volume 1, Berlin 1925.
• Uta Lohmann, Ingrid Lohmann (Ed.): "Learn reason!" : Jewish educational programs between tradition and modernization; Source texts from the time of the Haskala, 1760–1811 , Jewish history of education in Germany Vol. 6, Waxmann, Münster 2005, ISBN 978-3-8309-1504-1 . There is a short biography (PDF; 108 kB). (also available on Google Books )
• Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography , Volume II, 1925 ff.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Georg Christoph Hamberger (ed.): Das schehre Teutschland , Volume 13, Lemgo 1808, p. 404 ( available from Google Books ).