Elieser Landshuth

Elieser Landshuth ( Leiser Landshuth ; born January 15, 1817 in Lissa ; † March 23, 1887 in Berlin ) was a Jewish scholar who devoted himself in particular to the history of the Jewish liturgy and a rich library and document collection with a focus on the Berlin local and Rabbi history (the estate also contained an extensive and valuable processing of the tombstones of the old Jewish cemetery in Grosse Hamburger Strasse in Berlin).

In his civil profession, Elieser Landshuth was a bookseller and later a cemetery inspector.

Works (selection)

Appearance or date of origin known

• Ammude ha-Awoda ("Basics of worship": Onomasticon auctorum hymnorum Hebraeorum eorumque carminum, cum notis biographicis et bibliographicis e fontibus excusis et MSS , presentation of the history of Jewish liturgical poetry and its poets; his main work), 2 volumes, 1857 and 1862
• Toledot ansche haschem ufe'ulatam , Berlin 1884 (Hebrew history of the Berlin rabbis from 1671 to 1800; only the first volume has appeared; Ludwig Geiger's history of the Jews in Berlin is partly based on documents that Elieser Landshuth has compiled)

Works without year or not determined

• Ateret Zewi (biography Hirschel Lewins)
• Edition of the Haggadah schel Passover , with an introduction to the history of its creation
• Seder bikkur cholim. Complete prayer and devotional book for use by the sick and dying (also contains studies on the origins of the various prayers and customs)

literature

Commons : Reader Landshuth  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Louis Lewin: History of the Jews in Lissa. Tiller 1904.
• Rosa Dukas: Landshuth, Elieser. In: Georg Herlitz (Hrsg.): Jüdisches Lexikon . Vol. III, Jewish publishing house, Berlin 1927.
• Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography. Vol. III, Orient Printing House, Chernivtsi 1928.
• John F. Oppenheimer (Red.) And a .: Lexicon of Judaism. 2nd Edition. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh u. a. 1971, ISBN 3-570-05964-2 .