Hugo Chanoch Fox

Hugo Chanoch Fuchs (born January 3, 1878 in Stadtlengsfeld , Sachsen-Weimar ; died October 7, 1949 in Córdoba (Argentina) ) was a German rabbi and Jewish historian .

Life

Hugo Chanoch Fuchs was the son of elementary school teacher Sandel Fuchs and his wife Jeanette, nee. Goldschmidt. In 1896 he passed the Abitur at the grammar school in Braunschweig , after which he received Talmud lessons in Halberstadt .

After a history and philology studies at the Universities of Göttingen and Berlin Fuchs 1907 in Leipzig for Dr. phil. doctorate From 1897 to 1900 he attended the rabbinical seminary and from 1901 to 1904 the institute for the science of Judaism in Berlin and after his ordination was rabbi of the Israelite religious community in Chemnitz from 1907 to 1938 . During the First World War he was a pastor in the Ebersdorf prisoner-of-war hospital near Chemnitz. In 1917 he was a co-founder and initially head of a Talmud Torah school in Chemnitz. He was a member of the Saxon Rabbinical Association. In 1912 he was a co-signer of the "Guidelines for a Program for Liberal Judaism". For a while he was chairman of the Central Office for Jewish Welfare in Chemnitz and was involved in the Central Association of German Citizens of Jewish Faith and the Keren Hajessod Fund for Palestine . In 1929/30 he was president of the “Saxonia” lodge in the B'nai B'rith .

Hugo Henoch Fuchs was married to Rahel Philipps (1880–1938). She was the founder and chairwoman of the Jüdischer Frauenbund, local group Chemnitz, director of the Jewish kindergarten, the Jewish train station mission and the tuberculosis welfare organization and president of the sisters' association of the Saxonia Lodge. Together they worked in city welfare organizations.

After the Reichspogromnacht on 9/10 In November 1938, in which the Chemnitz synagogue was also destroyed, Fuchs was arrested and taken to a concentration camp .

In 1939 he received permission to leave the country and emigrated to Buenos Aires . Here he was rabbi of the German-Jewish refugee community until his death. His son Theodor ( Teodoro Fuchs ), who had been living with his wife Liselotte in Argentina since March 1938 and had enabled him to leave the country, was known as a conductor and music teacher. His second son, Nathan Walter (died 1998), lived in Palestine / Israel from 1934 to 1958. He became a soldier in the British Army in 1940 and returned to Germany (West Berlin) in 1958.

In his second marriage, Fuchs was married to Else Flieg, whose son Helmut from his first marriage became known as a writer under the name of Stefan Heym .

In addition to articles and articles for the Jewish Lexicon, Fuchs published several monographs. His most important work was the textbook on Jewish history, which appeared in six editions in Frankfurt am Main between 1922 and 1936 (from the second edition under the title Jewish History ) .

A street in Chemnitz is named after him.

Works

• Pesiq, a gloss mark. In: M. Altschüler: (Ed.): Vierteljahrsschrift für Bibelkunde. Talmudic and Patristic Studies. 3rd year (1907), no . 1, H. Fleischmann, Breslau, ZDB -ID 547939-3 (also: inaugural dissertation , University of Leipzig, 1906);
  • Separately reprinted by Lumen, Leipzig / Vienna 1908, OCLC 457462946 , urn : nbn: de: hebis: 30: 1-114138 ; ub.uni-frankfurt.de (PDF; 67.8 MB) - Text in German and partly in Hebrew.
• Religious Judaism. J. C. F. Pickenham & Sohn, Chemnitz 1919, OCLC 970847161 (anonymous).
• Gyges - the Jewry. Gustav Engel, Leipzig 1921, OCLC 234357679 , urn : nbn: de: hebis: 30-180014435009 , ub.uni-frankfurt.de (PDF; 12.5 MB).
• Textbook of Jewish History. Six editions: Frankfurt am Main 1922–1936;
  • under the title Jewish history. 6., verb. Edition. J. Kauffmann, Frankfurt am Main 1936, DNB 992383757 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-201310015833 .

literature

• Jeannette Strauss Almstad, Matthias Wolfes :  Hugo Chanoch Fuchs. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 19, Bautz, Nordhausen 2001, ISBN 3-88309-089-1 , Sp. 487-492.
• Entry FUCHS, Hugo Henoch, Dr. In: Michael Brocke and Julius Carlebach (editors), edited by Katrin Nele Jansen with the assistance of Jörg H. Fehrs and Valentina Wiedner: Biographisches Handbuch der Rabbis. Part 2: The rabbis in the German Empire, 1871–1945. KG Saur, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-5982487-4-0 , No. 2168, pp. 209-211.
• Esriel Hildesheimer: The students at the Berlin rabbinical seminar (supplemented by Jana Caroline Reimer). In: Esriel Hildesheimer, Mordechai Eliav: The Berlin Rabbinical Seminar 1873-1938. Its founding history - its students (= Foundation New Synagogue Berlin - Centrum Iudaicum : series of publications by the Centrum Judaicum. Volume 5). Edited by Chana Schütz and Hermann Simon . Translated from the Hebrew, revised. and supplemented by Jana Caroline Reimer. Hentrich & Hentrich, Teetz / Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938485-46-0 , pp. 49–272, here: p. 119 (original title: Bêt ham-midrāš lě-rabbānîm bê-Berlîn ) ( limited preview in the Google Book Search).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ (micm): Hugo-Fuchs-Straße - signs again torn down ( memento from March 4, 2019 in the Internet Archive ). In: Free Press . March 4, 2019, accessed April 5, 2020.
2. ↑ Editorial office: Fuchs, Hugo. In: Jewish Lexicon . Volume 2: D-H. Jüdischer Verlag, Berlin 1928, Sp. 843, urn : nbn: de: hebis: 30-180015078008 ( online ).