Esther Carlebach

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Esther Carlebach

Esther Carlebach née Esther Adler (born June 12, 1853 in Lübeck-Moisling ; died February 14, 1920 in Lübeck ) was a German author of poems and a guidebook for Jewish families. She was the wife of Rabbi Salomon Carlebach , mother of twelve children and the ancestral mother of the Carlebach family, which produced important rabbis, scientists and journalists in Germany, Great Britain, Israel and the USA.

Life

Carlebach was the daughter of the Lübeck rabbi Alexander Sussmann Adler (1816–1869) and his wife Hanna Fischl Joel (1820–1889). She was born in Lübeck-Moisling , where her grandfather Ephraim Fischl Joel (1795–1851) had already been a rabbi. Esther attended the Jewish elementary school in Moisling from 1858 and then the Lyceum Ernestinenschule in Lübeck until 1868 . Already at the age of 14 she published articles under a pseudonym in Jewish newspapers such as Jeschurun , in which she dealt with the restrictions of Jewish women in religious studies. Her daughter Bella wrote: "[...] she could not understand why only boys could and had to learn. That her Jewish learning was not possible she fretted until their last day. "At the school Ernestine granted them in 1869 as a 16-year-old for three years teaching.

In October 1871 she became engaged to Salomon Carlebach , who had succeeded her father as rabbi in Lübeck in 1870. The couple was married on January 10, 1872 by the Hamburg chief rabbi Anschel Stern . During the course of their marriage, she gave birth to twelve children, four daughters and eight sons. In addition to her duties as a housewife and mother, she worked in the burial sisters' association and in the Jewish women's association, and from 1878 took on boys as boarders in the household. In 1880 the family moved into the official apartment in Lübeck's St.-Annen-Straße on the upper floor of the newly built Lübeck synagogue . When her daughter Bella married Rabbi Leopold Rosenak in 1895 , she took the event as an opportunity to publish the volume of poetry The Daughter of Zion's Love and Life . In 1908 the guide for the Jewish house followed - lectures and performances for Purim , Chanuka , poems for weddings, bar mitzvah, etc. the like in two volumes. When her husband celebrated his 70th birthday, she dedicated a commemorative publication to him. Her volume of poems, The Daughter of Zion's Love and Life, was so successful that a second edition appeared in 1915, twenty years later. Her husband Salomon Carlebach died in 1919. Esther Carlebach, whose health had been impaired by a heart condition since 1916, died eleven months after him. Both were buried in the Jewish cemetery in Lübeck-Moisling .

The weekly magazine Der Israelit published a detailed obituary in which it says: The world knows how she worked beyond the framework of our community. Her cozy seals “for the Jewish house” and “the daughter of Zion's love and life” can be found in all Jewish houses. Your ministry within our church has been rich and blessed by God. Be it that she taught the children as a teacher at the Jewish school, worked primarily on humanitarian grounds in the Israelite Women's Association, in the women's Chewra stood by our side as a helpful sister, or that she was in all other areas of social and community life In joyful and happy hours she became our guide and gave us support and support at all times, the traces of her God-graced effectiveness can be found everywhere, they will remain unforgettable to us and our children.

The city of Lübeck paid tribute to Carlebach in 2005 in a traveling exhibition entitled Women in Lübeck History under the patronage of Bishop Bärbel Wartenberg-Potter . In Lübeck, the Carlebach Park in the university district commemorates the members of the Carlebach family.

progeny

  • Simson Carlebach.jpg
  • Rosa Resi Carlebach (née Graupe) .jpg
  • Stolperstein Hallerstraße 76 (Joseph Zwi Carlebach) in Hamburg-Rotherbaum.JPG

More grandchildren

  • David Carlebach (1899–1952), rabbi in Cologne and Jerusalem
  • Alexander Carlebach (1908–1992), rabbi in London, Belfast and Jerusalem

Works

  • The love and life of the daughter of Zion . Poetry book, Lübeck 1895.
  • For the Jewish house - lectures and performances for Purim, Chanuka, poems for weddings, bar mitzvah, etc. The like. Two issues, 1908.
  • To my dear husband on his 70th birthday - dates from official and family experiences . Festschrift, Lübeck 1915.
  • The love and life of the daughter of Zion . Second revised edition, 1915.

literature

  • Esther Carlebach, obituary in Der Israelit , issue 8, February 26, 1920, p. 9 digitized
  • Christine Lipp: Esther Carlebach - mother of twelve, writer and active rabbi . In: Women in Lübeck History , Women's Office of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck (ed.), Lübeck 2005.
  • Sabine Niemann (editor): The Carlebachs, a rabbi family from Germany . Ephraim Carlebach Foundation (ed.), Dölling and Galitz. Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-926174-99-4 .
  • Albrecht Schreiber: "That you do what is right and good". Life pictures of four Jewish women from Lübeck. Esther Carlebach, Charlotte Landau, Johanna Meyer, Bella Rosenak . (= Small booklets on the city's history; Booklet 21). Schmidt-Römhild publishing house and city archive, Lübeck 2010, ISBN 978-3-7950-3120-6 .
  • Carlebach, Esther. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 4: Brech-Carle. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-22684-5 , pp. 435-436.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christine Lipp: Esther Carlebach, mother of twelve, writer and active rabbi wife. In: Women in the history of Lübeck women office of the city of Lübeck (Hrsg.). Lübeck 2005, page 28
  2. ↑ Der Israelit , No. 8, February 26, 1920, p. 9
personal data
SURNAME Carlebach, Esther
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Adler, Esther (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author of poems and a guide for Jewish families
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck-Moisling
DATE OF DEATH February 14, 1920
Place of death Lübeck-Moisling