Eduard Kley

Lithograph by Isidor Popper

Eduard Israel Kley (born June 10, 1789 in Bierutów (German: Bernstadt); died October 4, 1867 in Hamburg ) was a German preacher and educator . He is one of the early pioneers of Reform Judaism .

Life

Kley (left) with the Hamburg preachers Salomon and Frankfurter.

Memorial stone Dr. phil. Eduard Kley, preacher at the isr. Temple ,
Ilandkoppel Jewish Cemetery

Kley began as a preacher at Israel Jacobson's private temple of reform . From 1817 he headed the newly founded Israelite Free School in Hamburg, where he carried out reforms. For example, the Bar Mitzvah festival was replaced by a type of Jewish confirmation for boys and girls. Kley's Sunday devotions also led to the establishment of the New Israelite Temple Association in 1817. In 1818 he became the first preacher of the temple services in Alten Steinweg / Brunnenstrasse. His drafts for a liberal reform prayer book, which aroused offense in traditional traditional Judaism, were trend-setting.

He held the office of preacher together with Gotthold Salomon until 1840. The reforms of the worship service and the new prayer book were seen as a sensational break with tradition. His successor at the Hamburg Temple was Naftali Frankfurter. In 1848 Kley resigned as headmaster of the free school, but taught until 1856.

A memorial stone commemorates Eduard Kley in the honorary complex in the “Grindelfriedhof” area of ​​the Ohlsdorf Jewish cemetery (Ilandkoppel).

literature

• Andreas Brämer : Kley, Eduard Israel. In: Institute for the history of the German Jews (Hrsg.): Das Jüdische Hamburg - a historical reference work. Göttingen 2006, p. 159 f.
• Eduard Kley: The feasts of the Lord: Israelite sermons for all feast days of the year. ISRAELITE Sermons for all the holidays of the year; KEEPED IN THE NEW TEMPLE IN HAMBURG. Maurer, Berlin 1824.
• Eduard Kley, Gotthold Salomon: Collection of the latest sermons. Held in the New Israelite Temple in Hamburg. J. Ahrons, Hamburg 1826.
• Gotthold Salomon: The new prayer book and its hereticization. Hamburg 1841.
• Michael A. Meyer : Answer to the modern. Böhlau, Vienna 2000, ISBN 978-3205983637 .
• Andreas Brämer: Judaism and religious reform. The Hamburg Israelitische Tempel 1817-1938. Dölling and Galitz Verlag, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-933374-78-2 .
• Ulrich Bauche (Ed.): Four hundred years of Jews in Hamburg. An exhibition by the Museum of Hamburg History from November 8, 1991 to March 29, 1992. Dölling and Galitz, Hamburg 1991, ISBN 3-926174-31-5 .
• Immanuel Heinrich Ritter:  Kley, Eduard . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, p. 181 f.
• Kley, Eduard. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 14: Kest – Kulk. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-22694-2 , pp. 118-121.
• Ingrid Lohmann : The citizen of the Jewish faith as an educational ideal. Eduard Israel Kley's treatise on Israelite elementary schools . In: Hamburg Key Documents on German-Jewish History, August 9, 2017, doi : 10.23691 / jgo: article-28.de.v1 .