Isaiah Hollander
Isaiah Hollander ( 1806 in Altona / Elbe ; † December 25, 1872 there ) was a German rabbi . He was also a Dajan (judge) at the Rabbinical Court in Altona.
The son of Aron Hakohen Hollander was a student of Rabbis Gamaliel and Akiba Wertheimer in Altona during his school days . At the age of 15 he went to Pressburg with his friend Jekew Cohn (1808-1905) , where he studied for eleven years at the yeshiva of Chief Rabbi Moses Sofer . He obtained his semicha through Samuel Freund in Prague and Sabel Egers in Braunschweig .
In 1834 he returned to Altona, where he worked for almost 40 years as a rabbi and preparatory teacher for the school of Jakob Ettlinger and until 1847 as a dayan (judge) in the rabbinical court. In 1837 he married Jekew's sister, with whom he had sons Jacob and Ahron, among others . Ahron founded a company in Altona in 1862 that his grandchildren Hermann and Fritz Hollander expanded internationally.
literature
- Michael Brocke , Julius Carlebach (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der Rabbis: The rabbis of the emancipation time in the German, Bohemian and Wielkopolska countries 1781-1871. KG Saur, Munich, 2004, ISBN 3-598-24871-7 , pp. 458-459
- Fred Skolnik, Michael Berenbaum (Eds.): Hollander, Isaiah Ben Aaron. In: Encyclopaedia Judaica . Volume 9, Macmillan Reference, 2007, p. 322, ISBN 978-0028659374 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Judith Bleich: The Emergence of an Orthodox Press in Nineteenth-Century Germany . Jewish Social Studies , Volume 42, 1980, p. 337
- ^ Kaufmann Kohler: Studies, Addresses, and Personal Papers . Alumni Association of the Hebrew Union College, 1931, p. 474
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hollander, Isaiah |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German rabbi |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1806 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Altona |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 25, 1872 |
| Place of death | Altona |