Gábor Lengyel

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Gábor Lengyel (Jewish name Jitzchak ben Baruch Mosche Ha'Lewi ; born January 13, 1941 in Budapest ) is a Hungarian-Israeli-German engineer , manager and rabbi .

Life

Gábor Lengyel was born on January 13, 1941 in Budapest as the son of a modern Orthodox Jewish family whose family tree can be traced back to the beginning of the 19th century. He was the second child of Janka, nee Stern, and of Márton Lengyel, one of the leading members of the then Association of Jewish Communities of Hungary. After the German Wehrmacht invaded Hungary, Lengyel's mother was initially deported to the Ravensbrück concentration camp and soon afterwards died in a cattle wagon while being transported to the Dachau concentration camp for forced labor . Gábor and his three years older brother and an aunt survived the Shoah in hiding in the Budapest ghetto . The kidnapped father returned to Budapest in 1945, but remained weak for the rest of his life.

Gábor Lengyel was later able to celebrate his bar mitzvah in an Orthodox synagogue in Budapest . In the winter of 1956, after the death of his father, Lengyel, who was only 15 years old, fled alone to Austria and from there, with the help of the chief rabbi Akiba Eisenberg , who worked in Vienna , emigrated to Israel , where he initially worked in the children's and youth village Ben Shemen and up Lived in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv in 1965 . During this period he attended a technical college until 1961 , where he trained as a precision mechanic . He then served in the Israeli Defense Army in a technical unit and subsequently passed his high school diploma externally. Eventually he got a job in the electro-optic industry in Tel Aviv.

On the advice of his Jerusalem teacher Fritz Mosche Kath, Lengyel went to Germany to study in the late summer of 1965 and, with the help of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and as a scholarship holder of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Braunschweig, studied at the Technical University there . Between 1972 and 2003 Lengyel worked as an engineer in various international industrial companies, most recently at IBM .

After Gábor Lengyel was a founding member of the German-Israeli Society in 1966 , he became increasingly involved in Jewish life as well as in Christian-Jewish dialogue in Lower Saxony and in Jewish-Muslim dialogue in 1978 , in which he and the Islamic theologian Samet Er wrote a Koran Bible -Thora learning group initiated. From 1978 to 1993 he worked in the development and as a board member in the management of the Braunschweig Jewish Community . In 1993 he was honored with the award of the Lower Saxony Cross of Merit on ribbon .

From 1993 to 2006 Lengyel worked on the board of the German-Israeli Society in Hanover , at times in parallel from 1999 to 2007 on the board of the Liberal Jewish Community in Hanover . From 2003 to 2007 he studied at the Rabbinical Seminary in Budapest , from 2005 to 2008 also at the Abraham Geiger College in Berlin. After Lengyel in January 2009, the duties of the rabbi of the Liberal Jewish Community Hanover and Göttingen in the local community had taken over, he received his doctorate in 2011 on the subject of modern rabbi training in Germany and Hungary. Hungarian listeners in educational institutions of German Jewry (1854–1938). under his doctoral supervisor Shlomo Spitzer .

Lengyel has been a lecturer at Leibniz University Hannover since 2012 .

As the senior rabbi of the Liberal Jewish Community of Hanover, founded in 1995, Lengyel primarily wants to convey Jewish values ​​and bring the community members closer to tradition. As his lifelong motto he chose the Pirkei Awot 4, 27:

"אל תסתכל בקנקן אלא במה שיש בו
Do not look at the jug, but at its contents."

Gábor Lengyel is a member of the German General Rabbinical Conference (ARK). He lives in Hanover-Südstadt , is married and has four adult children and (as of 2018) three grandchildren.

Fonts

  • Modern rabbi training in Germany and Hungary. Hungarian listeners in educational institutions of German Jewry (1854–1938) (= Münster Judaic Studies , vol. 26), also dissertation 2011 at the Jewish University Budapest, Berlin; Münster: Lit Verlag, 2912, ISBN 978-3-643-11725-0 ; contents
  • Don't look at the jar, look at its contents. Selected sermons, addresses and lectures , [1. Edition], Hannover :hochufer.com, [2016], ISBN 978-3-941513-72-3 and ISBN 3-941513-72-9 ; contents

literature

Web links

Commons : Gábor Lengyel  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l o.V :: Rabbi Dr. Gabor Lengyel supervises , short vita on the page ljgh.de [ undated ], last accessed on November 29, 2018
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g o. V .: Lengyel, Gábor in the database of Lower Saxony Persons (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in the version of June 29, 2016, last accessed on November 29, 2018
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Birte Vogel (text), Dieter Sieg (photo): Gábor Lengyel , in this: Hanover personally. Portraits , 1st edition, Wennigsen: Seewind-Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-9814559-0-8 , pp. 174–190
  4. ↑ a b c d o. V .: The rabbis of the ARK are ... , short vita on the ark.de page [ undated ], last accessed on November 29, 2018
  5. ↑ https://www.vhs-nienburg.de/portal/mektiven/interreligioese-gespraechsreihe-901005451-21500.html
  6. ↑ Compare the title of the dissertation
personal data
SURNAME Lengyel, Gábor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ha'Lewi, Jitzchak ben Baruch Mosche
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian-Israeli-German engineer, manager and rabbi
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest