Heinrich Brody

Heinrich Brody, 1913

Heinrich Brody , also Chaim Brody or Hayim Brody , pseudonym: H. Salomonsohn , (born on May 21, 1868 in Ungvár , Ung County , Austria-Hungary ; died on May 7, 1942 in Jerusalem , League of Nations mandate for Palestine ), was a Rabbi , literary scholar and editor .

Life

Heinrich Brody was a descendant of the Bohemian rabbi Abraham Broda (1640–1717), his maternal grandfather was the Talmudist Salomon Ganzfried . His father was the rabbinical judge Solomon Zalman Brody (1835-1917). In 1899 he married Esther Ehrenfeld, the daughter of the Prague chief rabbi Nathan Ehrenfeld .

After attending school in his hometown, Brody first studied at the yeshiva in Pressburg to study the Torah and the Talmud , later at the Rabbinical Seminary in Berlin and at the Humboldt University in Berlin , where he received his doctorate in 1894.

During his time as a rabbi for the Jewish community of Náchod from 1898 in the Bohemian town of Náchod , he opened up to Zionism and headed the religious Zionist Misrachi organization . In 1905 Brody went to Prague and headed the Talmud School, in 1912 he became Chief Rabbi there and held the office until his resignation in 1930. In 1930 he went to Berlin to take over the management of the Institute for the Study of Hebrew Poetry founded by Salman Schocken . Due to the handover of power to the National Socialists in 1933, the institute was relocated to Jerusalem, where Brody also emigrated in 1934 .

Brody's research area was medieval Hebrew poetry and the Sephardic liturgical poemes ( pijjutim ) recited during Jewish services . As a result of his studies, Brody published editions of important medieval Hebrew poets (e.g. Solomon Ibn Gabirol , Shmuel ha-Nagid or Moshe Ibn Ezra ). In 1922, he edited a Hebrew-language anthology with medieval spiritual verses by the Jews expelled from Spain in 1492 in the foreign-language book series of Insel Verlag Bibliotheca Mundi , which was overseen by Stefan Zweig . Together with Aron Freimann , he edited the Journal for Hebrew Bibliography he founded in 1896 . For some time he was also secretary of the literary society Mekize Nirdamim , founded in 1864 in Lyck , East Prussia , which is dedicated to the publication of older Hebrew books and manuscripts .

Fonts (selection)

(in transcription )

• Divan of Abu-el-Hasan Yehuda ha Levi . H. Itzkowski, Berlin 1930
• Edited with Meir Wiener : Anthologia Hebraica. Poemata selecta a libris divinis confectis usque ad iudaeorum ex Hispania expulsionem (A. MCCCCXCII). Insel Verlag, Leipzig 1922 (" Bibliotheca Mundi " series)

literature

• Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Hrsg.): Biographical manual of the German-speaking emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Politics, economy, public life. Saur, Munich 1980, p. 96 f.
• Brody, Heinrich. In: Encyclopaedia Judaica . 1972, Volume 4, Col. 1399 f.
• Festschrift for Heinrich Brody. Edited by Ismar Elbogen , Aron Freimann and others. Special issue of the Soncino sheets 2-4, Soncino Society of Friends of the Jewish Book , Berlin 1930.
• Esriel Hildesheimer, Mordechai Eliav: The Berlin Rabbinical Seminar 1873-1938. Berlin 2008, ISBN 9783938485460 , p. 681.

Web links

Wikisource: Heinrich Brody  - Sources and full texts

• Literature by and about Heinrich Brody in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Broda , in: Encyclopaedia Judaica , 1972, Volume 4, Sp. 1388 f.
2. ^ Brody, Solomon Zalman ben Israel , in: Encyclopaedia Judaica , 1972, Volume 4, Col. 1400 f.
3. ↑ Nathan Ehrenfeld , at yivo
4. ↑ Compare entry no. 2115 to: EHRENFELD, Nathan, Dr., in: Die Rabbiner im Deutschen Reich 1871-1945 , edited by Michael Brocke and Julius Carlebach, p. 169 ( digitized version ).