Hartog Leo

Hartog Leo , actually Zvi Hirsch Lifshitz , also Zvi Hirsch Lipschitz (born around 1710 in Berlin ; died before March 1784 in Breslau ) was a German Chasan (cantor) and secretary of the Jewish community in Berlin.

Life

He was the son of the Berlin Chasan and the Sopher Arje Löb Lipschütz . From 1736 he was community secretary, from 1758 at the latest he was also cantor of the Great Synagogue in Heidereutergasse in Berlin, where Aaron Beer became his successor in 1774 .

During his time in Berlin, Hartog Leo was in close contact with the enlightener and philosopher Moses Mendelssohn (1729–1786), who respected him very much. For his patriotic sermons from Hartog Leo , the Berlin chief rabbi David Hirschel Fraenkel regularly ordered corresponding songs of thanks with Hebrew lyrics such as the two hymns " Song of thanks about the glorious victory, which the Lord our most gracious kings and Lord, Friderich II. On the Sabbath, November 5th. 1757. awarded by Roßbach in Saxony ” and “ Song of thanks for the glorious and glorious victory which Se. Majesty our most allergic king won the 5th December 1757 at Leuthen in Silesia ” , which were then regularly translated and published by Mendelssohn in German (Verlag Birnstiel, Berlin 1757).

In 1773, Hartog Leo went to Breslau as community secretary, where he died before March 1784.

literature

Moritz Stern: History of the Old Synagogue in Berlin. In: Hermann Simon , Harmen Thies (ed.): Series of publications of the Centrum Judaicum. Volume 1, Verlag Hentrich & Hentrich, 2007, ISBN 3-938485-66-3 .

Web links

Works directory on Google books

Individual evidence

↑ Meyer Kayserling : Moses Mendelssohn , page 420, Verlag H. Mendelssohn, 1888 ( excerpt )
^ Judaica , volumes 60–61, page 219, Association of Friends of Israel in Basel, Switzerland. Evang. Mission to Jews, Foundation for Church and Judaism, Verlag Zwingli, 2004 ( excerpt )
^ Mendelssohn documents
↑ Leo Strauss : Moses Mendelssohn. Collected writings , Verlag Frommann, 1974, ISBN 3-7728-0318-0 ( excerpt )

personal data
SURNAME	Leo, Hartog
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Lifshitz, Zvi Hirsch (real name); Lipschitz, Zvi Hirsch
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Chasan (cantor) and secretary of the Jewish community in Berlin
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1710
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	before March 1784
Place of death	Wroclaw

[1] Meyer Kayserling : Moses Mendelssohn , page 420, Verlag H. Mendelssohn, 1888 ( excerpt )

[2] Judaica , volumes 60–61, page 219, Association of Friends of Israel in Basel, Switzerland. Evang. Mission to Jews, Foundation for Church and Judaism, Verlag Zwingli, 2004 ( excerpt )

[3] Mendelssohn documents

[4] Leo Strauss : Moses Mendelssohn. Collected writings , Verlag Frommann, 1974, ISBN 3-7728-0318-0 ( excerpt )