Heinemann Vogelstein
Heinemann Vogelstein (born February 13, 1841 in Lage / Lippe ; died August 4, 1911 in St. Moritz while traveling) was a German liberal rabbi. In his time he was the recognized leader of the religious-liberal movement in German Jewry .
Heinemann Vogelstein was the son of Israel Vogelstein and Julie Adler.
From November 1859 he studied at the University of Breslau and at the Jewish-Theological Seminary in Breslau (where he received his doctorate in 1865 with his dissertation, The Legend of Alexander among the Orientals ). During his studies, he became in 1861 a member of the fraternity Germania Wroclaw , Wroclaw fraternity Arminia .
He was rabbi in Pilsen (1868-1880) and Stettin (from 1880 until his death), founder and until his death chairman of the Association of Liberal Rabbis and Deputy Chairman of the Association for Liberal Judaism in Germany . From 1894 to 1896 he published a prayer book in two volumes in which all references to Jewish nationalism had been eliminated.
As an opponent of Zionism , he joined the protest rabbis in 1897 and published a pamphlet in 1906 : Zionism, a threat to the prosperous development of Judaism . In 1889 he had written a work entitled The Struggle Between Priests and Levites Since the Days of Ezekiel .
In 1928 a street in Stettin was named after him.
Heinemann Vogelstein was the father of Hermann , Ludwig and Theodor Vogelstein and Julie Braun-Vogelstein .
literature
- Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 8: Supplement L – Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-8253-6051-1 , pp. 358-360.
- Chajim David Lippe: Bibliographical lexicon of the entire Jewish literature of the present and address indicator. Löwy, Vienna 1881; New series, Vienna 1899
- Georg Herlitz and Bruno Kirschner : Jewish Lexicon . Volume 4.2, Jüdischer Verlag, Berlin 1927.
- Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography. Volume 6, Orient [ua], Cernãuţi 1936
- Philo-Lexicon. Handbook of Jewish Knowledge . 4th edition, Philo-Verlag, Berlin [including] 1937
- Encyclopaedia Judaica. Volume 16, Encyclopaedia Judaica, Jerusalem 1971
- Ernst G. Lowenthal: Jews in Prussia. Reimer, Berlin 1981
- Rudolf M. Wlaschek: Biographia Judaica Bohemiae. Volume 1, Research Center East Central Europe, Dortmund 1995 (= publications of the Research Center East Central Europe at the University of Dortmund, Volume 52)
- Walther Killy and Rudolf Vierhaus (eds.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 10, Saur, Munich [et al.] 1999.
- Entry VOGELSTEIN, Heinemann, Dr. 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. 873f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Isidor Kastan : "Breslauer Memories", in: Yearbook for Jewish History and Literature 26 (1925), p. 53 ( 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. , 67.
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| SURNAME | Vogelstein, Heinemann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German liberal rabbi |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 13, 1841 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Location (lip) |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th August 1911 |
| Place of death | St. Moritz |