Israel of Abraham

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Israel Abrahams (born November 26, 1858 in London ; died October 6, 1925 in Cambridge ) was a British Judaist . One of his best-known works is Jewish Life in the Middle Ages ("Jewish Life in the Middle Ages") from 1896.

life and work

Abrahams taught at the Jews' College in London for several years . In 1902 he received a position as a lecturer in rabbinical and Talmudic literature at the University of Cambridge , which he retained until his death. From 1888 to 1908 he edited the journal for Jewish studies The Jewish Quarterly Review with Claude G. Montefiore . Although he was raised strictly Orthodox , Abrahams was one of the founders of Liberal Judaism in Great Britain.

In his work Jewish Life in the Middle Ages , Abrahams comes to the conclusion that there was no Middle Ages in Jewish history , but that the Christian Middle Ages had a lasting influence on the Jews by contributing to their social isolation . The book covers all areas of Jewish life in this epoch, including the function of synagogues , social customs, the organization of the community, professional life and Judeo-Christian relationships. Studies in Pharisaism and the Gospels (2 volumes, 1917–1924) comprises a series of treatises on Judaism in the New Testament . His work on Jewish literature Chapters on Jewish Literature (1899) ranges from the conquest of Jerusalem in AD 70 to the death of the Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn in 1786.

Publications (selection)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ digitized version (1919)
  2. ↑ a b c Israel of Abraham. In: Encyclopædia Britannica . Retrieved January 24, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Michael A. Meyer: Answer to the modern. History of the reform movement in Judaism . Böhlau, 2000, ISBN 3-205-98363-7 , pp. 315 .
personal data
SURNAME Abraham, Israel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Judaist
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH October 6, 1925
Place of death Cambridge