Hillel Sondheimer

Hillel Sondheimer's gravestone

Hillel Sondheimer ( October 10, 1840 in Eppingen , Baden - June 16, 1899 in Heidelberg ) was a district rabbi in Baden and the author of books for Jewish religious education.

family

Hillel Sondheimer's parents were Joel Sondheimer (born 1790; died March 16, 1862), a trader, insurance broker and moneylender, and Hanna, née Dreifuss. They had three children: Wolf (Wilhelm, born 1831), Fanny (born 1833) and finally Hillel, also called Chillel .

Hillel Sondheimer married Kaufmann, born on April 26, 1865 in Gailingen am Hochrhein, Flora (born on November 24, 1844 in Gailingen; died on March 24, 1911 in Heidelberg), daughter of the senior council member Baruch Kaufmann, who was the head of the Jewish community in Gailingen. From this marriage the children Frieda, Rosa, Joel and Olga were born.

Hillel Sondheimer was the grandson of Rabbi Sondheimer (Aschaffenburg) and great-grandson of Rabbi MT Sontheim in Hanau.

education

Hillel attended the Higher Citizens' School in Eppingen from 1848 to 1852 and the Lyceum in Karlsruhe from 1852 to 1858 , where he passed the school-leaving examination. He received Talmud lessons from Rabbi Josel Altmann. After graduating from high school, he studied at the University of Heidelberg , then at the University of Würzburg and from October 28, 1859 to August 6, 1861 at the University of Berlin . He received his doctorate from the University of Halle in 1861 .

Professional background

After taking the theological exam in Karlsruhe, he took over the district rabbinate in Gailingen am Hochrhein as a rabbinate candidate in 1863 , only to become a rabbi there two years later. In 1872 he took up the post of district rabbi in Heidelberg. In his function as district rabbi, he delivered the sermon on November 1, 1873 for the inauguration of the new synagogue in Eppingen. In addition to his activity as a rabbi, which he provided until 1899, he wrote several books on Jewish religious instruction and the Israelite worship . From 1889 he was also a conference Rabbi member of the Upper Council of the Israelites bathing . In 1884 he was awarded the Knight's Cross First Class of the Order of the Zähringer Lion .

Hillel Sondheimer died on June 16, 1899 and was buried in the Heidelberg Bergfriedhof .

Works

Front page

• De linguae hebraeae nominibus nec non quaedam ad ejus indolem pertinentia. Dissertation Halle 1861.
• History religious instruction. 1st edition, Lahr (Schauenburg Verlag) 1890, 19th edition, Lahr 1901.
• The second holiday. Heidelberg (J. Horning's university print shop) 1880.
• Regarding the order of prayer for the Israelite worship service. Mannheim 1882.
• The Pentateuch for school use. Urtext. Translation alongside the individual words or sentences. Explanation and preparation. In addition to an appendix: The most important things from the Hebrew elementary and form theory. Frankfurt am Main 1886.

literature

• Chaim David Lippe: Bibliographical lexicon of the entire Jewish literature of the present, and address indicator. A lexically ordered scheme with addresses of rabbis, preachers, teachers, cantors, supporters of Jewish literature in the old and new world, together with precise bibliographical details of all writings and journals published by contemporary Jewish authors, especially those relating to Jewish literature. Vienna 1879–81, p. 463.
• Josef Eschelbacher: Speech on the bier of the immortalized Mr. Hillel Sondheimer. Frankfurt am Main 1899.
• Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography. Chernivtsi, Volume V, page 571.
• Berthold Rosenthal : Homeland history of the Baden Jews from their historical appearance to the present , Bühl 1927 (Reprint: Magstadt bei Stuttgart 1981), p. 342 ( ISBN 3-7644-0092-7 )
• History of the Jews in Heidelberg . With contributions by Andreas Czer u. a. (Book series of the city of Heidelberg, Vol. VI) Heidelberg: Guderjahn, 1996, pp. 239–242 (Fig. 10)
• Jewish life in the Kraichgau. On the history of the Eppinger Jews and their families . Heimatfreunde Eppingen, Eppingen 2006, ISBN 3-930172-17-8 , p. 185–190 ( Heimatfreunde Eppingen / special series . Volume 5).
• Edmund Kiehnle : The Jews in Eppingen and their cult buildings . In: Around the Ottilienberg. Contributions to the history of the city of Eppingen and its surroundings . tape 3 . Heimatfreunde Eppingen, Eppingen 1985, p. 150-152 .
• Ralf Bischoff and Reinhard Hauke ​​(eds.): The Jewish cemetery in Eppingen. A documentation . 2nd Edition. Heimatfreunde Eppingen, Eppingen 1996 ( Around the Ottilienberg. Contributions to the history of the city of Eppingen and its surroundings . Volume 5).
• Entry SONDHEIMER, Hillel, 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. 821f.

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