Isaac Rülf

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Isaak Rülf shortly before his death
Gravestone in the Jewish cemetery in Bonn-Castell

Isaak Rülf (born February 10, 1831 in Rauischholzhausen , Hessen ; died September 18, 1902 in Bonn ) was a German rabbi , Jewish politician and Zionist .

Life

Isaak Rülf was the son of the cattle breeder Juda Rülf. At the age of 14 he began studying with Rabbi Mordechai Wetzlar in Gudensberg . In 1848 he passed the teacher examination and became an assistant mentor at Wetzlar's school. He received private Latin lessons from the local priest. In 1854 he matriculated in Marburg . During his studies he ran a private school in order to earn a living. In 1857 he received the rabbinical diploma.

From 1859 he worked as a teacher and rabbi in Hesse. From 1863 he was a religion teacher in Schwerin . There he received his full ordination as a rabbi. At the beginning of 1865 he received his doctorate in Rostock .

Rülf had been a rabbi in Memel since 1865 . There he was also editor of the political daily newspaper Memeler Dampfboot . He emerged as a philosophical writer, especially through the five-volume work science of world thought - science world of thought - Science of the power unit - science of spiritual unity - the science of God's unity .

Isaak Rülf was an early pioneer of Chibbat Zion . He was particularly interested in Russian Jews and Jewish emigrants, for whom he organized aid organizations as a Jewish politician. This earned him the nickname “Dr. Huelf “. He supported Theodor Herzl from the beginning, especially against the anti-Zionist " protest rabbis ". Until his death he took part in all Zionist congresses. He spent the last years of his life in Bonn tirelessly working to spread the Zionist idea.

Rülf was married to Viola Bechhof (1842–1926).

Other works

  • Emergency call from Memel . In: Democratic weekly paper . No. 31 of July 31, 1869.
  • My trip to Kovno , 1869.
  • Three days in Jewish Russia , 1881.
  • Aruchas Bas-Ammi. Israel's healing. A serious word to fellow believers and non-believers , Frankfurt 1883
  • The right of inheritance as inheritance , o. O. o. J.

literature

  • Rülf, Isaac. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 18: Phil – Samu. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. De Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2010, ISBN 978-3-598-22698-4 , pp. 423-426.
  • Article Rülf, Isaak. In: John F. Oppenheimer (Red.) U. a .: Lexicon of Judaism. 2nd Edition. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh u. a. 1971, ISBN 3-570-05964-2 , col. 680.
*Harald Lordick: Isaac Rülf – Rabbiner, Philosoph, Zionist, Philanthrop. In: Kalonymos 3, 2000, Extrablatt, S. 21f. (online).

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. For the origin of the name, see the article Schlomo Friedrich Rülf .
  2. 1900 wrote Rülf himself: "I consider, and certainly not wrongly, three men as the fathers of modern Zionism: Our eternal friend Dr. Pinsker, you and yours truly." Letter from Rabb. Dr. Rülf to Dr. K. Lippe in Jassy. Communicated by Ch. Bloch, in: The Voice of Truth. Yearbook for Scientific Zionism, Würzburg 1905, p. 217.
  3. Aruchas Bas-Ammi is considered Ruelfs most important work, which he based on Leon Pinsker auto-emancipation through the Jewish problem in Europe already fully written on Zionist basis.