Falk Cohn

Falk Cohn (born December 18, 1833 in Dessau , Anhalt-Dessau ; died March 6, 1901 in Bonn ) was a German rabbi .

Falk Cohn was the son of the Dessau teacher and rabbinate corrupt H. Cohn and Sara Falk.

Cohn enrolled at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin in April 1855 . He took Talmud lessons there . On February 21, 1860 he received his doctorate in Leipzig on the subject of a philosophical-critical treatise on the final verse of the second book of the Psalms .

In May 1861, Cohn became a preacher in Köthen ( Anhalt-Bernburg ). In 1862 he became a member of the German Oriental Society . From the end of 1862 to 1867 he was a preacher and religion teacher in Waren , Mecklenburg-Schwerin . After that he was director of the Jewish school in Bielitz ( Austrian Silesia ) until 1872 . In 1872 he became a preacher in Oels (Prussian province of Lower Silesia ) and in 1882 a rabbi in Bonn.

Falk Cohn was married to Sidonie Herzberg (died 1897). He was buried with his wife in the Jewish cemetery in Bonn .

In his memory, the Falk-Cohn-Verein was founded in the Bonn Jewish community after his death .

Publications

• Philosophical-critical treatise on the final verse of the second book of the Psalms. Dissertation Leipzig 1860.
• Meaning and purpose of the day of atonement. Sermon delivered on the eve of the Feast of Atonement in 5622 in the synagogue at Cöthen. Leipzig 1862.
• The return. Sermon delivered on the evening of the Feast of Reconciliation in 5623. Köthen 1862.
• Faith, love and trust. Sermon held at the memorial service for your k. Your Highness the High Elder. Grand Duchess Anna of Mecklenburg-Schwerin in the synagogue in Waren. 1865.
• The language of a monument. Sermon for the annual celebration of the Frankfurt Peace Treaty. 1873.
• Jewish religious schools next to higher education institutions. A contribution to the history of the German school system. Hepner, Breslau 1878 (reprinted by Nabu Press, 2010, ISBN 978-1-1477389-5-7 ).
• Prologue for the 50th anniversary of the foundation festival of the Chewra Kadisha in the language of a monument.
• The development of the Jewish. Teaching from Mendelssohn to the present day. A presentation. In: The Jewish Literature Journal. Edited by Moritz Rahmer , Magdeburg 1880, no. 28–30.
• To the question about the work overload of the students of higher education institutions. 1881.
• The discipline in the jew. Religious schools. Oels 1881.

literature

• Chaim David Lippe: Bibliographical lexicon of the entire Jewish literature of the present, and address indicator. A lexically ordered scheme with addresses of rabbis, preachers, teachers, cantors, supporters of Jewish literature in the old and new world, together with precise bibliographical details of all writings and journals published by contemporary Jewish authors, especially those relating to Jewish literature. Vienna 1879–81, p. 67, Reprint: Hildesheim 2003.
• Meyer Kayserling : The Jewish literature of Moses Mendelssohn up to the present. Published by M. Poppelauer, Berlin 1896, p. 821 ( digitized in the Freimann collection ).
• Isidore Singer (Ed.), Aron Freimann : The Jewish Encyclopedia . Volume IV, p. 157. New York and London 1901–1906, electronic edition: [1] .
• Entry COHN, Falk, Dr. In: Michael Brocke and Julius Carlebach (editors), edited by Carsten Wilke : Biographisches Handbuch der Rabbis. Part 1: The rabbis of the emancipation period in the German, Bohemian and Greater Poland countries 1781–1871. K G Saur, Munich 2004, p. 237 f.
• City archive goods. City administration. No. 1115. About the Jewish preachers.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Journal of the German Oriental Society. Wiesbaden 1862, p. 315, no.591.
2. ↑ Michael Brocke and Dan Bondy: The old Jewish cemetery in Bonn-Schwarzrheindorf. Cologne 1998, p. 569.