Jakob Neubauer
Jakob Jekutiel Neubauer (born January 29, 1895 in Leipzig , † March 22, 1945 in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp ) was a legal historian and rabbi .
Life
Jakob Neubauer was the son of the diamond dealer Hermann Neubauer; as the family came from Romania, which was then part of the Ottoman Empire, he had Turkish citizenship. In 1913 he passed the Abitur and was ordained a rabbi at the same time. He studied law from 1913 to 1918, then Semitic languages until 1920 at the University of Leipzig . On 29 July 1918 he was in the legal historian Paul Koschaker Dr. iur. PhD. He then lived on the Hermannsberg estate in Bavaria, which his father had acquired, and devoted himself to studying the Torah and Talmud . In 1926, however, he went to Würzburg for economic reasons to work as a seminary rabbi at the Israelite Teacher Training Institute (ILBA). In March 1933 he emigrated with his family to Amsterdam , where he taught at the rabbinical seminary. After the German invasion of the Netherlands, he was persecuted and in 1944 he was deported to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. He died there in 1945 a few weeks before the concentration camp was liberated by British troops.
Publications
- Contributions to the history of the biblical-Talmudic marriage law. A comparative historical study . Leipzig 1920 (dissertation, digitized version ).
literature
- Gerald Wiemers : His life ended in the Holocaust. An unknown lawyer? Jakob Neubauer at the University of Leipzig . In: Freedom and Law. Half-yearly publication of the BWV-Bayern . 2008/1 + 2
- Gerald Wiemers: Jakob Neubauer (1895–1945). Legal historian - Talmudist - Holocaust victim . Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-86583-435-5 .
- Esriel Hildesheimer, Mordechai Eliav: Das Berliner Rabbinerseminar 1873-1938 , Berlin 2008, ISBN 9783938485460 , p. 203.
Web links
- Literature by and about Jakob Neubauer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Gerald Wiemers: Jakob Neubauer (1895–1945) reading Leipzig
- Jakob Neubauer on stolpersteine-wuerzburg.de
- Neubauer's son Jecheskeel on stolpersteine-wuerzburg.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Neubauer, Jakob |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Neubauer, Jakob Jekutiel; Neubauer, Yekutiel Jakob |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Legal historian and rabbi |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 29, 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 22, 1945 |
| Place of death | Bergen-Belsen concentration camp |