Gedalja Tiktin

Gedalja Tiktin (born 1808 in Czestochowa ; died on August 8, 1886 in Breslau ) was the royal rabbi in Silesia .

Gedalja Tiktin was a grandson of Abraham Tiktin and the son of Solomon Tiktin , who also held the office of rabbi in Wroclaw. He was a student of Chaim Auerbach in Luntschütz . In 1829 he got engaged to Mirjam Bornstein in Luntschütz.

Tiktin belonged to the orthodox circle of the "Tempel-Schul" in the Antoniengasse in Breslau. In May 1843 he was elected rabbi of the Breslau community by 200 like-minded people. In 1846 he signed the call for the Conservative Assembly of Theologians. It was not until September 1847 that he was officially recognized as a rabbi of the Orthodox.

Tiktin's appointment as rabbi of Silesia by Friedrich Wilhelm IV. By cabinet order of January 30, 1854 was marked by a split in the Silesian Jewish community into Orthodox , whose spokesman was Tiktin like his father before, and reformers , who had already developed during his father's term of office sought to get the Wroclaw city rabbi Abraham Geigers appointed as regional rabbi. Even after his appointment by the king, Tiktin found it difficult to enforce his rabbinical authority in the divided community. Only after Geiger's death did he and his successor Manuel Joël come to an agreement that restored peace between the competing groups. Together with the liberal Rabbi Joël, Tiktin inaugurated the new main synagogue in Wroclaw, Auf dem Anger .

Tiktin was known for its extensive charity activity; In 1870 he was awarded the fourth class Red Eagle in recognition of his services to the sick and wounded in the Franco-German War .

Gedalja Tiktin is the father of the Romanist Heinrich Tiktin (1850–1936).

literature

• Julius Fürst : Bibliotheca Judaica. Bibliographical handbook of all Jewish literature. Volume III, Leipzig 1863 (reprint: Hildesheim and New York 1960), p. 431 ( digitized version ).
• Jewish Lexicon . Vol. IV./2, Berlin 1927.
• John F. Oppenheimer (Red.) And a .: Lexicon of Judaism. 2nd Edition. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh u. a. 1971, ISBN 3-570-05964-2 , col. 808.
• Entry TIKTIN, Gedalja. 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, ISBN 3-598-24871-7 , pp. 857f.

Web links

• Jewish Encyclopedia