Jakob Löwenstein

Jakob-Koppel Löwenstein ( August 17, 1799 in Bruchsal - July 27, 1869 in Tauberbischofsheim ) was an author and district rabbi in Baden .

family

Jakob Löwenstein was the son of Joseph Löwenstein. He studied at the yeshiva in Bruchsal near Pelta Epstein, from 1813 in Karlsruhe with Ascher Löw and Aron Ettlinger, from 1816 in Mainz with Herz Scheuer, from 1820 in Hanau with Moses Sontheim, in 1825 in Würzburg with Abraham Bing . In 1825 and 1826 he was matriculated at the University of Würzburg .

Löwenstein married Regina (Rechel) nee Ettlinger (born 1806 in Karlsruhe ; died 1880 in unknown) in 1829 . From this marriage there were thirteen children, eleven of whom were born in Gailingen am Hochrhein : Adelheid (born on May 26, 1830), Hannchen (born on May 24, 1831), Minette (born on August 20, 1832; died on April 10, 1835), Isaac (born on October 5, 1834), Rebekka (born on April 16, 1836), Samuel (born on January 17, 1838), Babette (born on December 29, 1839), Mirjam (born on December 31, 1841), Leopold (1843–1923), Judith (born September 16, 1845) and Joseph (born December 29, 1847).

Professional background

Jakob Löwenstein was matriculated at the University of Würzburg in 1825 and 1826 . In 1825 he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD. From 1829 he was rabbi in Gailingen, where he gave the address as district rabbi for the inauguration of the new synagogue on September 9, 1836 . After all, from 1852 until his death he was the district rabbi in Tauberbischofsheim, where he also directed a yeshiva for high school students. In the years 1857–58 and 1859–61 he simultaneously administered the Merchingen rabbinate .

He was neo-orthodox . His work Menoah tehorah or Pure Judaism ... is considered to be the first orthodox pamphlet in German. He corresponded with the "miracle rabbi of Michelstadt" Seckel Löb Wormser .

Works

• Menoah tehorah or Pure Judaism as the counterpart of Dr. M. Creizenach published the first part of his Schulchan Aruch under the title Chariag. Schaffhausen 1835 ( digitized at ub.uni-frankfurt.de )

literature

• Balduin Herter: Mosbach in the 3rd Reich, 4th issue, Die Judengemeinde von Mosbach 1297 to 1940 , Mosbach 2008, pp. 98–99.
• Joachim Hahn and Jürgen Krüger: Synagogues in Baden-Württemberg. Volume 2: Joachim Hahn: Places and Facilities. Theiss, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1843-5 ( Memorial book of the synagogues in Germany. Volume 4.)
• Entry LÖWENSTEIN, Jakob-Koppel. In: Michael Brocke and Julius Carlebach (editors), edited by Carsten Wilke : Biographisches Handbuch der Rabbis. Part 1: The rabbis of the emancipation period in the German, Bohemian and Greater Poland countries 1781–1871. K G Saur, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-598-24871-7 , pp. 628-629.

Web links

• Texts by Jakob Löwenstein at alemannia-judaica.de .