Isak Unna

Isak Unna (born May 29, 1872 in Würzburg , † May 19, 1948 in Jerusalem ) was a German classical philologist and rabbi.

Life

Unna was the son of the teacher Moses Unna and his wife Zerla, b. Bamberg. From 1889 to 1895 he studied classical philology in Würzburg and Berlin, where he received his doctorate in 1895. At the same time he studied at the rabbinical seminary in Berlin and received the rabbi diploma in 1896. After a short stopover as a rabbinical assistant in Frankfurt am Main, he became a rabbi at the Klaus Synagogue in Mannheim in 1898 , where he pushed ahead with the expansion of the Klaus School into a larger religious school. In 1898 he married Gertrud Goitein (1876–1954), who came from the extensive family of rabbis and scholars Goitein . The couple had five daughters and three sons, including Mosche Unna (1902-1989), who was a member of the Knesseth for the National Religious Party from 1948 to 1970. From 1920 Isak Unna was Mannheim's third councilor, in 1921 he became a member of the Synod and in 1924 a conference rabbi in the Upper Council of the Israelites of Baden . He took an orthodox point of view and wrote numerous essays and reports with which he also intervened in the discussion of religious and political issues of the day.

In 1935 Unna emigrated with his wife and younger children to Palestine, where the older children were already living. In exile he continued his scientific work.

Works (selection)

• On the use of the intentional sentences in Philo von Alexandrien , Frankfurt a. M .: Slobotzky 1895 (Würzburg, Univ., Diss., 1895).
• The cremation from the standpoint of Judaism: a lecture. In addition to an appendix: Critique of the Viennese report on cremation, Frankfurt a. M .: Kauffmann 1903 ( digitized ).
• The Lemle Moses Klaus Foundation in Mannheim , 2 volumes, Frankfurt a. M .: Kaufmann 1908–1909. (Volume 1: digitized , volume 2: digitized ).
• Rabbi Elia, the Gaon of Wilna and his time , Frankfurt am Main: Jüdischer Volksschriftenverlag [1911] (Jüdische Volksbücherei; 13) ( digitized version ).
• The Aguna Laws (provisions on the remarriage of widows of the missing) , Frankfurt a. M .: Kauffmann, 1916.
• R. Simon ben Lakisch as teacher of the Halacha and Agada , Frankfurt a. M. 1921.
• The idea of ​​the Arewut in its practical meaning. Presentation given at the founding meeting d. Achduth in Frankfurt a. M. on December 26, 1923 , Berlin [1924] ( digitized version ).
• Animal protection in Judaism , Frankfurt a. M .: Kaufmann 1928 ( digitized version ).
• Schächten from the standpoint of religion and animal protection , Hamburg: Verlag der Deutsche Israelitische Zeitung and Laubhüte 1931 ( digitized ).

literature

• Karl Otto Watzinger : History of the Jews in Mannheim 1650–1945 with 52 biographies, 2nd edition, Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 1987 (publications of the Mannheim City Archives; 12), pp. 139–141.