Hartwig Naphtali Carlebach

Hartwig Naphtali Carlebach , also Naftali Carlebach ( August 21, 1889 in Lübeck - December 23, 1967 in New York City ) was a German-American rabbi .

Life

Hartwig Carlebach came from a Lübeck rabbi dynasty. He was the eleventh child and the youngest son of the Lübeck rabbi Salomon Carlebach and his wife Esther, geb. Eagle . Like his older brothers Emanuel , Ephraim , Joseph and David, he attended the Katharineum in Lübeck until he graduated from high school in Easter 1907. He went to Berlin and studied at the Rabbinical Seminary in Berlin and the University of Berlin . From 1912 to 1917 he was a teacher at the Adass-Yisroel religious school and at the Higher Israelite School ( Carlebach School ) in Leipzig .

Memorial plaque for the Passauer Strasse synagogue

In 1917 he was appointed rabbi of the synagogue on Passauer Strasse (Berlin) , the oldest and most respected synagogue association in western Berlin. In 1923 he was elected Chief Rabbi of the Dutch province of Friesland; however, he decided to decline the call and stay in Berlin. In 1924 he was at the University of Leipzig with a dissertation on Georg von Gizycki Dr. phil. PhD.

On November 16, 1930, as a result of a replacement, he was elected by the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Baden bei Wien as chief rabbi of the third largest Jewish community in Austria at the time. The family moved to Baden, where Hartwig Carlebach was appointed to his post on August 9, 1931.

He lost his post on February 1, 1938. After the annexation of Austria , the family fled Baden on July 14, 1938, first to Lithuania , where he came into contact with the Hasidic tradition , and in 1939 to New York City .

There Hartwig Naphtali Carlebach found work as a rabbi at the synagogue Kehilath Jacob in the West 79th Street . Due to his formative personality and special style, which combined different traditions, she quickly became known as the Carlebach Shul .

He was married to Paula (Pauline), geb. Cohn (1896–1980) from Basel . The couple's children included the twins Shlomo (the singing rabbi ) and Eli Chaim Carlebach, who led the Carlebach Shul after him.

He was buried in Jerusalem .

Fonts

• Georg von Gizycki, the founder of the Society for "Ethical Culture" in Germany. An ethical-pedagogical study. Diss. Leipzig 1924
• Renegade of the spirit. Frankfurt / M. 1937
• Josef Carlebach and his generation. 1959
• The Carlebach tradition. The history of my family. 1973
• Speak to the Children of Israel. 1977.

literature

• Michael Brocke, Julius Carlebach : The Rabbis in the German Empire 1871-1945. Berlin: de Gruyter Saur 2009 ISBN 978-3-598-44107-3 . doi: 10.1515 / 9783598441073 , p. 114f. (No. 2069)
• Esriel Hildesheimer, Mordechai Eliav: Das Berliner Rabbinerseminar 1873-1938 , Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938485-46-0 , p. 91

Web links

• Carlebach Shul , official website

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hermann Genzken: The Abitur graduates of the Katharineum zu Lübeck (grammar school and secondary school) from Easter 1807 to 1907. Borchers, Lübeck 1907. (Supplement to the school program 1907) Digitized No. 1248
2. ↑ Congregation Chronicle. (…) Berlin. A few months ago (…) ( Memento of the original from December 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: The Truth , No. 36/1931, September 4, 1931, Vienna 1931, ZDB -ID 2176231-4 , p. 7, bottom left. 
3. ^ Association for the Enlightenment of Jewish History in Baden: From then to now. (...) End of the KuK monarchy  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: jewishhistorybaden.com , accessed April 11, 2013.  
4. ↑ From week to week. Rabbi election in Baden near Vienna ( Memento of the original dated December 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: The Truth , No. 48/1930, November 28, 1930, Vienna 1930, ZDB-ID 2176231-4, p. 7, center right. 
5. ↑ Inauguration of the Chief Rabbi Dr. Hartwig Carlebach. In:  Badener Zeitung , No. 64/1931 (Volume II), August 12, 1931, p. 2 f. (Online at ANNO ). .

1. ↑ In 1934 they moved into Villa Baden (dating back to 1867), Helenenstrasse 6. - See: Thomas Eliser Schärf: House of Chief Rabbi Dr. Hartwig Carlebach ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: juedischegemeinde.at , 2003, accessed on April 11, 2013. (The caption Helenenstraße 4 is incorrect; the former Helenenschule is at orientation number 2-4 ).