Jewish Free School Berlin
The Jewish Free School Berlin (" Jewish Free School for Penniless Berlin Children "; Hebrew חברת חינוך נערים, Chewrat Chinuch Ne'arim , "Society for Boy Education") was founded in 1778 by David Friedländer together with Isaak Daniel Itzig , his brother-in-law, and Hartwig Wessely . Friedländer took over its management, after a few years Itzig, followed in 1806 by Lazarus Bendavid . Friedländer and his friend Moses Mendelssohn wanted to spread the idea of tolerance and thus contribute to the emancipation of the Jews . They had lessons in German so that the Jews could integrate into the bourgeois German milieu.
To finance this institution David and his brother Daniel Itzig applied in 1784 for permission to establish a printing company that Frederick II. Only Hebrew sentence issued. The magazine Ha-Meassef (The Collector), published in this house , became an effective organ of the Haskala , the Jewish Enlightenment , and is often compared to the Berlin Monthly Journal .
Efforts to get the school recognized by the state were unsuccessful until the free school was merged with the Talmud Torah schools of the community to form the community Jewish school in 1825/1826 .
literature
- Ingrid Lohmann (Ed.): Chevrat Chinuch Nearim. The Jewish free school in Berlin (1778-1825) in the context of Prussian educational policy and Jewish cultural reform. A collection of sources . Münster: Waxmann 2001. ISBN 978-3-89325-780-5 ( table of contents ; PDF; 653 kB)
- Ingrid Lohmann: The Jewish Free School in Berlin - its role in the field of tension between tradition and civilization. Two case studies . In: Menora 16 - Yearbook for German-Jewish History 2005/2006, pp. 241–264 ( online resource ; PDF; 342 kB).
- Dirk Sadowski: Oriental Buchdruckerey. In: Dan Diner (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture (EJGK). Volume 4: Ly-Po. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2013, ISBN 978-3-476-02504-3 , pp. 441-444.
Individual evidence
- ↑ See: From Leopold Zunz's estate, Zeitschrift für die Geschichte der Juden in Deutschland, Jg. 5, 1892, p. 263 Online (compactmemory) ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective . Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
