Jacob Rosenheim

Jacob Rosenheim (also Jakob Rosenheim ; born November 5, 1870 in Frankfurt am Main ; † November 3, 1965 in Jerusalem ) was a German pioneer of Orthodox Judaism , author, publisher and co-founder and president of the Agudas Jisroel World Organization .

Life

Jacob Rosenheim grew up as the only son of the bookseller Elias Rosenheim and his wife Charlotte, née Kaufmann in Frankfurt. His parents were among the first adherents of the exit orthodoxy in the sense of Samson Raphael Hirsch . His mother was one of the first in the community to cover her hair according to Hirsch's standards. Jacob completed the secondary school of the Israelite Religious Society and a grammar school in Frankfurt.

Jacob Rosenheim was married to Gertrude, b. Straus, whose father, the Karlsruhe banker Samuel Straus, was one of the founding fathers of the exit movement. From 1906 to 1935 Rosenheim was editor of the Israelit and chairman of the Israelite Religious Society in Frankfurt am Main and then emigrated to England. From 1941 to 1950 he lived in exile in the USA and then went to Israel .

Works (selection)

What does Agudas Yisroel want? Frankfurt am Main 1912
What wants, what is Agudas Yisroel? Halberstadt 1919
Contributions to Orientation in Contemporary Jewish Spiritual Life , Zurich 1920
Abrahamic or Mosaic Judaism? 1924
Oholei Jakov: Selected essays and speeches , 2 volumes, Frankfurt a. M. 1930
Agudistic writings , Frankfurt am Main 1931
Samson Raphael Hirsch 's Cultural Ideal and our Times , London 1951
Memories. 1870-1920 , published by Heinrich Eisemann and Herbert N. Kruskal, Frankfurt am Main 1970

literature

Andreas Brämer : Rosenheim, Jacob. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 68 f. ( Digitized version ).
H. Schwab, Jacob Rosenheim , 1925
Festschrift for Jacob Rosenheim on the occasion of his 60th birthday, presented by his friends , J. Kauffmann , Frankfurt am Main 1931
Jeannette Strauss Almstad / Matthias Wolfes : Jacob Rosenheim. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 34, Bautz, Nordhausen 2013, ISBN 978-3-88309-766-4 , Sp. 1227-1253.

Web links

Literature by and about Jacob Rosenheim in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ John F. Oppenheimer (Red.) And a .: Lexicon of Judaism. 2nd Edition. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh u. a. 1971, ISBN 3-570-05964-2 , Sp. 674.

personal data
SURNAME	Rosenheim, Jacob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Rosenheim, Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German scholar of Jewish Orthodoxy
DATE OF BIRTH	November 5, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH	Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH	November 3, 1965
Place of death	Jerusalem

[1] John F. Oppenheimer (Red.) And a .: Lexicon of Judaism. 2nd Edition. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh u. a. 1971, ISBN 3-570-05964-2 , Sp. 674.