Isaak Hirsch (writer)

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Isaak Hirsch (also: Isak or Isaac Hirsch , pseudonym Naftali or Naphtali Simon and Paganus ; born April 14, 1836 in Oldenburg (Oldb) ; died December 6, 1899 in Hanover ) was a German businessman , journalist and writer . He was considered one of the few representatives of Jewish orthodoxy in Hanover.

Life

family

Tombs of Isaac Hirsch, "[...] in grateful memories of the well-deserved headmaster", dedicated by the Hanover Synagogue Community Charity , and his wife Martha (died on August 20, 1912) in the Jewish cemetery at An der Strangriede

Isaak Hirsch came from a Jewish family and was the son of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch (1808–1888) and Johanna (1806–1882), daughter of the businessman Markus (Mordechai) Juedel in Braunschweig and Sarchen Itzig . His nine siblings included the educator Mendel Hirsch , the Frankfurt lawyer and notary Naphtali Hirsch (1844–1903) and the writer Sara Hirsch , married Guggenheimer (pseudonym Friedrich Rott ).

Isaak Hirsch was an uncle of the Frankfurt doctor Rahel Hirsch (1870–1953). His wife Martha Kohn gave birth to the medical councilor Salomon Hirsch (1866–1916), who was active in Hanover, and was the father of the writer Karl Jakob Hirsch .

Career

Born in the royal seat of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg , Isaak Hirsch lived with his family in Emden at the beginning of industrialization from 1841 to 1847 .

Hirsch worked as a businessman in Vienna and Frankfurt am Main before he, as a teenager, moved to the royal seat of the Kingdom of Hanover in 1855 , where he entered the office of Simon, May & Co. in Hanover in the same year . A few years later, in 1861, he started his own business. According to the address book of the Royal Residence City of Hanover from 1868, the assistant Isaak Hirsch had his seat at the time at Seilwinderstraße 13 .

In the early days of the German Empire , Isaak Hirsch retired from active business life in 1879 and began to be more active in literature and in matters of the Jewish community in Hanover. At the end of the 1880s he became a member of the board of the synagogue community in Hanover.

Issak Hirsch was editor of the weekly magazine Jeschurun from 1883 to 1888 , before it was incorporated into Der Israelit in 1889 .

In 1893, Hirsch resigned with his book published by Manz & Lange in Linden . Is Talmudic morality compatible with German citizenship law? against anti-Semitic agitation.

funeral

Isaak Hirsch was buried on December 8, 1899 in the Jewish cemetery at An der Strangriede . Among the six speakers who gave a funeral speech that was later reproduced in a reprint, were Isaak Hirsch's brothers Mendel and Julius , the land rabbi Selig Gronemann , the rabbinical candidate David Braunschweiger from Berlin and the seminar director Lesser Knoller . A speech given by Gronemann on December 31 of that year was later added to these six addresses, which was given on the occasion of the commemoration day for the foundation of the Chewra Kadischa , the Jewish burial brotherhood in Hanover in whose history Isaak Hirsch had secured a place of honor.

The grave stele of the merchant and writer Isaac Hirsch made of black granite has an inscription by the charity of the synagogue community in Hanover .

Fonts (selection)

  • I. Hirsch: The Walldorfers. Roman , Berlin, 1882
  • I. Hirsch: Anna Pelzer , Roman, 252 pages, Hanover: H. Wasserkampf u. Co, 1890
  • Isaac Hirsch: Is Talmudic Morality Compatible with German Citizenship Law? , third thousand, Hannover-Linden: Verlag von Manz & Lange, 1893

literature

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library (DNB) and cross-references
  2. ↑ a b c d o.V. : Hirsch, Isaak in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in the version of May 12, 2006, last accessed on March 3, 2017
  3. ↑ a b c d Peter Schulze : Jews in Hanover. Contributions to the history and culture of a minority. Texts and pictures from the exhibitions "Jews in Hanover" and "Historical Torah curtains from Hanover's former synagogues" in the old preaching hall . Kulturamt der Stadt Hannover, Hannover 1989 (=  Kulturinformation Nr. 19), pp. 25, 27
  4. ↑ a b Pinchas Grünewald:  Hirsch, Samson Raphael. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 210 f. ( Digitized version ).
  5. ↑ Compare the transcription of the Verein für Computergenealogie
  6. ^ Meir Hildesheimer , Matthias Morgenstern : Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch in the German-language Jewish press. Materials for a bibliographical overview (= texts and studies on German-Jewish orthodoxy , vol. 1), Berlin; Münster: LIT, 2013, ISBN 978-3-643-11499-0 , p. 246; Preview over google books
  7. ↑ a b Helmut F. Pfanner : Karl Jakob Hirsch. Writer, artist and exile. A biography with a work history , Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, circa 2009, ISBN 978-3-8260-3947-8 , pp. 19–22; Preview over google books
personal data
SURNAME Deer, Isaac
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hirsch, Isaac; Deer, Isak; Simon, Naphtali; Simon, Naftali; Paganus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rabbi and writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1836
PLACE OF BIRTH Oldenburg (Oldb)
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 1899
Place of death Hanover