Hessekiel Hessel

Hessekiel (Ezechiel) Hessel ( 1755 in Sulzbuerg , Upper Palatinate - May 28, 1824 in Munich ) was a German rabbi in Munich.

Life

Left side, penultimate house: Synagogue by Jean Baptiste Métivier . Sepia drawing by L. Huber (1889)

Hessekiel Hesse, who was born as Samuel Hessel, visited the yeshivot in Fürth and Frankfurt am Main . He then worked for 20 years as a cantor in his native Sulzbürg. Around 1800 he was a cantor and rabbi in Uehlfeld . In April 1802, Hessekiel Hesse was employed by the Jewish community in Munich as a cantor and rabbi. Hessel was confirmed in this function by the state administration of the Kingdom of Bavaria and entered in the register under the number 48, as prescribed in the Bavarian Jewish edict of 1813 . He did not live to see the inauguration of the new synagogue in Westenriederstrasse , which he campaigned to build.

The grave of Hessekiel Hesse is located in Munich's Old Israelite Cemetery in Thalkirchner Strasse .

publication

• Thanksgiving prayer held together with ten psalms for the jubilation of the fifth and twentieth government, Sr. Majesty the King of Bavaria Maximilian Joseph on February 16, 1824. Munich 1824 ( digitized in BSB ).

literature

• Beth ha-Knesseth - meeting place. On the history of the Munich synagogues, their rabbis and cantors. Catalog for the exhibition in the Jewish Museum Munich (December 2, 1999– May 31, 2000). Buchendorfer Verlag , Munich 1999, ISBN 3-934036-09-0 , p. 55.
• Entry HESSEL, Ezekiel. 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 , p. 433.