Israelite Religious Society Zurich

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The Israelite Religious Society Zurich (IRGZ) - Adass Jeschurun ​​Zurich - is one of two Orthodox Jewish communities in the city of Zurich .

local community

The IRGZ has around 350 community members and has been a member of the Swiss Association of Israelites (SIG) since 1918 .

It was founded in 1895 and initially belonged to the Israelitische Cultusgemeinde Zurich , until it separated from it three years later. Right from the start, the Israelite Religious Community of Zurich was committed to the principles of neo-orthodoxy as developed by Samson Raphael Hirsch in the 19th century , and is the only German-speaking community that has represented this direction within Judaism for over a century. In the liturgy it is based on the Rödelheim prayer rite ( Siddur Sfat Emet) and in the service it adheres to the traditional German- Ashkenazi pronunciation of Hebrew . At the beginning of the 20th century there was a wave of immigration from Jews from Eastern Europe , who founded the likewise Orthodox community of Agudas Achim in Zurich in 1912 . After the two communities initially separated themselves from each other, there has been close cooperation since the 1960s, especially in the field of kosher catering.

Synagogue in Freilutstrasse

Facilities

The IRGZ has its own synagogue on Freilutstrasse in the City -Quartier, which was built in 1923/24 according to plans by Henauer and Witschi in the Art Deco style , and a community center in the Enge -Quartier, followed by a cemetery in the community Fällanden is located in the southwestern district of Pfaffhausen, east of Zurich between Binz and Witikon . The cemetery was laid out in 1936 after the Steinkluppe cemetery in Zurich was closed and covers 7,090 m².

literature

  • Guido Kleinberger: Zurich's Synagogues in the 20th Century, in: Kunst + Architektur 2/2005, pp. 41–45.
  • Karin Huser: Synagogue of the Israelite Religious Community (Zurich-Enge, 1924), in: Communications of the Antiquarian Society in Zurich , 74, 2007, p. 380 f.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member communities. In: swissjews.ch. Swiss Association of Israelites (SIG) , accessed on July 10, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Zurich Israelitischer Friedhof Binz The cemetery grounds are actually still on the ground of the city of Zurich, as Pfaffhauser Weidstrasse forms the municipality boundary between the political municipality of Fällanden and the city of Zurich.