Jakob Horowitz

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Jakob Horowitz (born March 5, 1837 in Cracow ; died 1907 in Düsseldorf ) was a German chief rabbi . He worked in Märkisch Friedland and from 1868 to 1904 in Krefeld .

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family

Jakob Horowitz was the son of the businessman Lazar Löb Horowitz and Rickel nee Horowitz. He married Celestine Heymann (* 1850) on November 22, 1869. The couple had four children: son Leopold, called Leo (* 1873) and daughter Rosa, called Röschen (* 1875). The sons Markus and Kurt probably died in childhood.

In 1900 Rosa Horowitz married the textile manufacturer Gustav Jonas, who came from Borken and settled in Mönchengladbach. The couple are the parents of the philosopher Hans Jonas .

Career

Jakob Horowitz began studying at the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau in 1857 . At the same time he studied oriental studies and history at the University of Wroclaw . He received his doctorate in Halle (Saale) in 1864 . His dissertation was titled Meletemata in librum apocryphum, qui Sapentia Iesu Siracidae vulgo appellatur , it was later published both in book form and in the monthly for the history and science of Judaism . In 1867 he was elected rabbi in Märkisch Friedland. On May 27, 1869 he was elected Chief Rabbi of Krefeld - from all communities of the old Krefeld Consistory (synagogue districts Krefeld, Moers, Geldern, Kleve, Kempen, Neuss, Grevenbroich, Bergheim and Geilenkirchen) and separately for Krefeld according to the new synagogue constitution. On August 10, 1869, the state approved his election.

Activity as a rabbi

During his tenure, the synagogue in Meschede was inaugurated in August 1879 and the new synagogue in Hüls on September 14, 1883 . In 1891 a ritual murder charge sparked unrest in Xanten . Together with the head of the Jewish community of Xanten, Oster, Horowitz sent a letter to the Prussian interior minister on September 15, 1891 with the request to send an experienced commissioner to the Lower Rhine city to investigate the case. In 1903 the Krefeld synagogue was rebuilt and enlarged. The building was clad with a stucco coat in the historicist style and received five towers. Jakob Horowitz inaugurated the synagogue on July 18, 1903. This was his last official act. He then retired.

Fonts

  • The book of Jesus Sirach. In: Monthly for the history and science of Judaism . 1865, issue 3.
  • The sermon of the present: an element of popular education. 1874?
  • Words of mourning, uttered on the bier of Miss Fanny Nathan, founder and head of the Jewish orphanage for Westphalia and Rhineland in Paderborn, on July 15, 1877. Krefeld 1877.
  • Sermon at the memorial service in memory of the most blessed Emperor and King Wilhelm I: held on March 16, 1888 in the evening. Krefeld 1888
  • Festschrift for the 125th anniversary of the ChewraKadischa in Krefeld at the same time a contribution to the history of the formation of the Israelite community. Krefeld 1889.

literature

  • Michael Brocke , Julius Carlebach : The rabbis of the emancipation period in the German, Bohemian and Greater Poland countries 1781–1871. Walter de Gruyter, 2004, pp. 460/461. [5]

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christian Wiese: The Life and Thought of Hans Jonas: Jewish Dimensions. UPNE, 2007. [1]
  2. ↑ Entry on Horowitz, Jakob, Dr. , in: Michael Brocke, Julius Carlebach (eds.): Biographisches Handbuch der Rabbis , Vol. 1, Munich 2004, pp. 460–461, p. 460.
  3. ↑ Allgemeine Zeitung des Judenthums: An impartial organ for all Jewish interests in terms of politics, religion, literature, history, linguistics and fiction , Volume 33, 1869, p. 452. Elected to the chief rabbi.
  4. ^ Julius Grunewald: A Jewish childhood on the Lower Rhine: the memories of Julius Grunewald. Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar, 2009, p. 172. [2]
  5. ↑ Jewish history and culture in NRW: a manual. Benno Reicher, Secretariat for Joint Cultural Work in North Rhine-Westphalia, 1993, p. 187. [3]
  6. ^ Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area
  7. ^ Johannes T. Groß: Accusations of ritual murder against Jews in the German Empire (1871-1914). Metropol, 2002, p. 59. [4]
predecessor Office successor
Löb Bodenheimer Rabbi of Krefeld Joseph Levi
personal data
SURNAME Horowitz, Jakob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Horowitz, Jacob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rabbi
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1837
PLACE OF BIRTH Krakow
DATE OF DEATH 1907
Place of death Dusseldorf