Gabor Goitein

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Gabor Goitein, around 1875

Gabor Gedalja (Gabriel) Goitein (born October 3, 1848 in Hőgyész , Tolna County , Hungary ; † April 25, 1883 in Posen ) comes from the extensive family of rabbis and scholars Goitein and was a Hungarian-German rabbi of the Israelite Religious Society in Karlsruhe , Talmudic scholar and teacher.

Life

Gabor Goitein ( Hebrew גאבור גדליהו גויטיין), Son of Zwi Hirsch Goitein and Szoli Sara, b. Teller, grew up as the youngest with three sisters and three brothers in a German-speaking environment. The parents' house was directly opposite the Shul , the synagogue. The father's ancestors came from the Moravian Kojetín , from which the family name apparently goes back.

Gabor Goitein's paternal grandfather was Baruch Bendit Goitein (1770–1839), called Kessef Nivchar after his main work. His son, Gabor's father, Zwi Hirsch Hermann Goitein , b. 1805, followed in the office of Rabbi of Hőgyész and was known as the author of Yedei Moshe .

At the age of ten years Gabor Goitein was at the yeshiva in Bratislava sent where he because of modest financial circumstances of the family home as Belfer had to contribute to their own upkeep. In 1860 the father died. The successor of the father as rabbi of Hőgyész came Gabor's brother Elijahu Menahem Goitein (1837–1902), called Rab Berachot after his work. After his bar mitzvah , Gabor switched to the yeshiva in Eisenstadt , which was directed by Esriel Hildesheimer . The decisive factor was that Hildesheimer, in the spirit of Samson Raphael Hirsch, advocated the combination of Torah studies with secular subjects. For the young man this meant an academic degree in addition to the rabbinate examination.

Gabor Goitein accompanied his teacher Hildesheimer to Berlin to found the orthodox rabbinical seminary. Goitein's only verifiable publication today was his dissertation on the scholar Hillel, which was accepted at the University of Tübingen . After a brief activity as a teacher at the religious school of the Adass Jisroel Israelite synagogue community in Berlin , he took up his first rabbinical position in Aurich in 1874 .

He and married the elementary school teacher Henriette Ida (Jetta) geb. Löwenfeld , born in Posen in 1848 , sister of Raphael Löwenfeld , daughter of Viktor Löwenfeld and Henriette geb. Zadek.

Six children resulted from the marriage:

  • Gertrud (Gittel) Unna-Goitein (1876–1954), wife of the Mannheim rabbi Isak Unna
  • Emma Dessau-Goitein (1877–1968), painter and graphic artist
  • Hermann (1879–1882)
  • Rahel Straus -Goitein (1880–1963)
  • Benedikt (Beni), born in 1881, died at the age of 1/2 year
  • Ernst Elijah (1882–1915), killed as a lieutenant in the First World War

In 1876, Gabor Goitein was appointed to the rabbinical position of the Israelite Religious Society ( Adass Jeschurun ) in Karlsruhe as the successor to Heinrich Herz Ehrmann . For almost seven years he shaped the exit congregation there as a preacher, religion teacher, advisor and judge . During his term of office he built his own synagogue at Karl-Friedrich-Straße 16 .

During a visit to the in-laws' house in Poznan , Rabbi Goitein died completely unexpectedly. He was buried in the New Cemetery of the Israelite Religious Society in Karlsruhe. His successor in office, Sinai Schiffer , dedicated a printed Hesped speech to him for the installation of the gravestone in 1884 . Rabbi Goitein's wife Ida survived him by almost half a century and died in Mannheim in 1931.

plant

  • Life and work of Hillel Haseken , Berlin 1874; also published as: The Life and Work of Patriarch Hillel . In: Magazin für die Wissenschaft des Judenthums , 11, 1884, pp. 1–16 and 49–87 (= Phil. Diss. Tübingen 1873).

literature

  • Sinai Schiffer: Remembrance speech at the installation of the grave memorial stone for Dr. Gedalja Goitein, rabbi of the Israelite Religious Society in Karlsruhe at ERH Nissan 5644 / spoken by Sinai Schiffer. Karlsruhe, o. Publ., 1884
  • Rahel Straus: We lived in Germany . Stgt .: DVA, 3rd edition 1962, p. 21ff
  • G. Herlitz, B. Kirschner (Ed.): Jüdisches Lexikon . Berlin 1928, vol. II, col. 1180

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Straus: We lived in Germany , p. 30
  2. ↑ see Ref.
  3. ↑ denkmalprojekt.org
  4. ↑ see Ref.
personal data
SURNAME Goitein, Gabor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gotein, Gedaliah
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Rabbis of Neo-Orthodoxy
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Hőgyész
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 1883
Place of death Poses