Elie Rosen

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Elie Rosen

Elie Rosen (born March 2, 1971 in Mödling ) is an Austrian lawyer, business economist and representative of Austrian Jewry .

Life

Together with his great cousin , the Viennese painter Georg Chaimowicz , Rosen came out against the demolition of the Baden synagogue in the late 1980s and prevented the dissolution of the Jewish community in Baden near Vienna.

In 1998 he was elected President of the Baden Jewish Community. Together with the President of the Israelite Cultural Community in Vienna , Ariel Muzicant , Rosen achieved the restoration of the Baden synagogue from public funds in 2002. In the same year the Center for Intercultural Encounters in Baden , which he is now managing director, was founded. Rosen has been a member of the board of the Jewish Community of Vienna since 2002 and a member of the board of the Federal Association of Jewish Community of Austria. In 2003 he appeared at the Constitutional Convention as the spokesman for the Jewish communities in Austria.

In 2004, Federal Minister Maria Rauch-Kallat appointed Rosen Chairman of Senate II of the Equal Treatment Commission, which is now part of the Austrian Federal Chancellery. In this function he was responsible for the treatment of alleged discrimination based on ethnic origin, religion, age and sexual orientation in the world of work and held this office until 2016. In 2008, Rosen was appointed as a judge at the newly established Asylum Court by From 2014 to 2017 he acted as a judge at the Federal Administrative Court in Vienna. He has been working as a freelance consultant since 2017.

In 2007, the Lower Austrian provincial government thanked and recognized him for his commitment to understanding and tolerance. On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the November pogroms in 1938 , Rosen was awarded the city's silver coat of arms by the city of Baden .

On November 29, 2012, Rosen was elected Vice-President of the Federal Association of Jewish Religious Communities in Austria and finally entrusted on March 20, 2016 by the Vienna Jewish Community as chargé d'affaires with the management of the Graz Jewish community for the federal states of Styria, Carinthia and southern Burgenland, which he now also presides over as President. In October he was also appointed to the board of the Jewish Cultural Foundation for Styria, Carinthia and Southern Burgenland. The re-establishment of the Styrian state rabbinate, which was dissolved in 1938, and the appointment of the Viennese rabbi Schlomo Hofmeister as the Styrian state rabbi and chief rabbi of Graz can also be traced back to his influence and sustained commitment . Rosen's work for the Jewish community in Graz is clearly marked by an expansion of religious activities and, in a short time, achieved a stabilization of the Jewish community, which was almost in the process of dissolution. His term of office is also characterized by an increased, representative presence of the Jewish community in public life in the Styrian capital and a clear opening to the outside world.

Rosen's work for the Jewish Community of Graz in the educational and cultural field is also characterized by sustainability and diversity. It is also due to his persistent interventions and efforts that the remains of the photographer Dora Kallmus, who became known under the stage name Madame d'Ora , were exhumed on October 24, 2019 in Frohnleiten, Styria, and transferred to the Jewish cemetery in Graz , where she was were buried again on the same day in a grave of honor.

In public, Rosen consistently stands up for the interests of the State of Israel and against the anti-Israel BDS movement; he is a declared Zionist. It is mainly due to his instigation that the state capital Graz and the state of Styria passed resolutions against anti-Semitism and the “anti-Semitic BDS movement” in 2019 and 2020 respectively. There were repeated media disputes, for example with the international law expert Wolfgang Benedek from Graz .

On August 22, 2020, Rosen was attacked by a Syrian with a chair leg in front of the Jewish community center, but was able to get into his car. A few days earlier, large areas of the east wall of the synagogue and the Jewish community building were smeared with propalestinian slogans and several windows were thrown in. One day after the attack on Rosen, a suspect 31-year-old was arrested, who is also charged with the damage to property at the synagogue. The Syrian citizen confessed to the crimes and cited profound hatred of Israel and Jews as the motive.

Publications

  • Jewish life in Baden: from the beginning to the present. Mandelbaum Verlag, Vienna 2005, ISBN 978-3-85476-164-8 . 2nd edition: Metroverlag, Vienna, 2013, ISBN 978-3-99300-150-6 .
  • The Baden Wilhelminian-style synagogue. Baden Jewish Community, 1990.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ After 78 years - New Styrian regional rabbi. Press release by the Graz Jewish Community, December 1, 2016.
    Jewish Community awakening. Press release from the Jewish Community of Graz, December 1, 2018.
  2. ↑ Grave of honor for Dora Kallmus: photographer transferred to the Jewish cemetery in Graz for eternal rest. In: ots.at. Jewish Community Graz, October 24, 2019, accessed on August 27, 2020 .
  3. ^ Graz municipal council adopts a resolution against anti-Semitism and BDS. In: ots.at. Jewish Community Graz, November 14, 2019, accessed on August 27, 2020 . State of Styria condemns anti-Semitism and the anti-Israel BDS movement. In: ots.at. Jewish Community Graz, May 6, 2020, accessed on August 27, 2020 . Human Rights Advisory Council of the City of Graz: President of the Jewish Community calls for Wolfgang Benedek to resign. In: ots.at. Jewish Community Graz, July 22, 2019, accessed on August 27, 2020 .
  4. ^ Attack on the mayor. In: Jüdische Allgemeine . August 26, 2020, accessed on August 27, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Suspect arrested after attacks on Jewish community. In: faz.net . August 24, 2020, accessed on August 27, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Johanna Bruckner, Oliver Das Gupta: Attackers give hatred of Israel and Jews as a motive. In: sueddeutsche.de . August 24, 2020, accessed on August 27, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Roses, Elie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schärf, Thomas E. (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian lawyer, business economist and prominent representative of Austrian Jewry
DATE OF BIRTH March 2nd 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Mödling