Israel Rabin

Israel Abraham Rabin , Hebrew ישראל אברהם רבין, (born October 18, 1882 in Proskurow , Russian Empire ; died September 18, 1951 in Haifa ) was a German historian.

Life

Israel Rabin attended the yeshivot in Lithuania , received the Hatarat Hora'a at the age of 17, he attended high school in Kaunas and received his doctorate from the University of Bern with a dissertation on the Jews in Zülz . He worked for a short time as a teacher in Switzerland and from 1909 to 1911 at the Esra teachers' seminar of the Aid Association of German Jews in Jerusalem and was then head of the rabbi seminar in Odessa . When the First World War broke out, he was in Germany and was interned as an enemy foreigner . He stayed in Germany and became a lecturer for literature and post-biblical Judaism at the University of Giessen and the University of Frankfurt am Main . In 1921, as the successor to Markus Brann, he became a lecturer in history, biblical exegesis, Talmud and Hebrew literature at the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau (JTS) and received German citizenship. In 1934 he became a seminary rabbi at the JTS. Rabin was a leading member of the Misrachi in Germany and was a delegate at Zionist congresses . In 1931 he co-founded the “Brit Ivrit Olamit” in Berlin.

After the transfer of power to the National Socialists in 1933, Rabin was stripped of his German citizenship and dismissed. Under the conditions of the German persecution of the Jews, he emigrated with his family to Palestine in 1935 . There he found work as a primary school teacher.

Israel Rabin was married to Martel Wolodarsky (died 1980), their son Chaim Rabin (1915–1986) became a Hebraist. With his second wife Else Hes (1889–1978) he had the daughter Miriam Ben-Peretz (born 1927), who became a teacher, and the son Michael Oser Rabin (born 1931), who became a computer scientist.

Fonts (selection)

• The Jews in Zülz . Neustadt O.-S., 1926. Dissertation Bern 1926
• On the legal struggle of the Jews in Silesia (1582–1713) . Breslau: Schatzky, 1927
• The emancipation efforts of the Silesian Jews at the turn of the 17th century . Opole: Erdmann Raabe, 1929
• Jonas Fränckel . Breslau: Board of Trustees of the Kommerzienrat Fränckel Foundation, 1929
• Studies on the pre-Mosaic conception of God / Section 1. Investigation d. developmental Basics . Breslau: M. & H. Marcus, 1929
• From Dyhernfurth's Jewish past . Breslau: W. Jacobsohn & Co. 1929
• Substance and Idea in Jewish Historiography . Breslau: W. Jacobsohn & Co. 1930
• Contributions to the legal and economic history of the Jews in Silesia in the 18th century. Book I: The Legal Status (1713–1740) . 1932

literature

• Rabin, Israel Abraham , in: Michael Brocke , Julius Carlebach (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der Rabbis. Part 2: The rabbis in the German Empire 1871–1945. Volume 2, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-24874-0
• Rabin, Israel , in: Robert Jütte : The emigration of the German-speaking "Wissenschaft des Judentums": the emigration of Jewish historians to Palestine 1933–1945 . Stuttgart: Steiner 1991
• Rabin, Israel , in: Joseph Walk : Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 305
• Rabin, Israel , in: Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.2. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 934
• Ester Rabin : Shadows . Givatayim: Massada, 1975 memories
• Alfred Jospe : Israel Rabin (1882–1951) , in: Historica Judaica 14 (1952), pp. 170f.

Web links

• Literature by and about Rabîn, Yiśrā'ēl Avrāhām in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Rabin, Israel Abraham in the WorldCat bibliographic database