Isaac Herzberg

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Isaak Herzberg (born June 18, 1857 in Aurich , Kingdom of Prussia ; died November 6, 1936 in Kassel ) was a German Jewish religious teacher and writer.

Life

Isaak Herzberg attended school in Aurich and received training from 1872 to 1875 at the Jewish teacher training center in Hanover. He worked as a teacher, prayer leader and preacher in Lingen , Meppen and Diepholz and was also an employee and then editor of the magazine Israelitischer Bote published in Bonn . In 1886 he moved to Inowrocław (Hohensalza), where he headed the local daily newspaper. In 1890 he took over the post of first religion teacher at the Jewish school in Bromberg .

Herzberg wrote fiction, youth books and educational writings. With the Koschmin Rabbi Aron Heppner (1865-1939) he collected the material for a comprehensive history of the Jews in the area of ​​the then Prussian province of Posen .

Herzberg moved to Kassel after the First World War , when Bromberg became Polish .

Works

  • Ez chaim. Hebrew reading primer, arranged in stages according to methodological principles. Edited for schools and for self-teaching . Inowrazlaw, 1890
  • On the wrong path. Stories from Jewish life . Frankfurt a. M. 1893
  • David and Jonathan. The captain. Narratives . Israelite Youth Library, 3. Berlin 1896
  • For our minors. Thirty stories from the Bible. A reading book for the little Israelite children at home and at school . Bromberg 1899
  • The fault of the fathers. Novel . Bromberg 1899
  • Chone Larch, the Schadchen, or two engagements at once . Original narration. Lehmann's Jewish Public Library, 29, Mainz, 1902
  • Hillel, the Babylonian. A story from ancient Jewish times for young and old . Israelite Youth Library. Berlin, 1902
  • Three stories . Lehmann's Jewish public library. Mainz, 1905
  • Hermon. Tales from the Talmud and Midrash. Edited for the Israelite youth . New Israelite youth library 'Saron'. Teaching and entertaining from old and new times, Leipzig 1907
  • Moses Mendelssohn. A picture of life for the Israelite youth . New Israelite youth library 'Saron'. Teaching and entertaining from old and new times. Leipzig 1907
  • Hermon. Sagas and legends, fables and parables from the rabbinical writings. New episode. Edited for the Israelite youth . New Israelite youth library 'Saron'. Teaching and entertaining from old and new times. Leipzig 1907
  • Sulamite. Jewish poetry from ancient and modern times . New episode. For the more mature Israelite youth, Leipzig 1907
  • with Aron Heppner: From the past and present of the Jews and the Jewish communities in the Posner Lands. Two volumes, Koschmin and Bromberg 1909–1924
  • Wrestling forces. A Poznan ghetto novel from the time of the Seven Years' War . Jena: Costenoble, 1913
  • "My Judaism". The main distinguishing features of Judaism and Christianity. Shown for young and old . Leipzig 1918

literature

  • Isaak Herzberg , in: Gabriele von Glasenapp, Hans Otto Horch : Ghettoliteratur. A documentation on the German-Jewish literary history of the 19th and early 20th centuries . Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 2005, pp. 897-900
  • Gabriele von Glasenapp : Isaak Herzberg , in: Biographisches Lexikon für Ostfriesland (BLO), Volume IV, 2007, pp. 195ff. PDF

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personal data
SURNAME Herzberg, Isaac
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Jewish religion teacher and writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Aurich
DATE OF DEATH November 6, 1936
Place of death kassel