Josef Eschelbacher

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Josef Eschelbacher ( 1848 in Hainstadt - December 3, 1916 in Berlin ) was an author and district rabbi in Baden .

family

The history of the Eschelbacher family in Hardheim can be traced very far back . It goes back to a Jew named Joseph who came to Hardheim from Eschelbach im Kraichgau in the 1830s. He was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Külsheim in 1787 . The grandson of this Joseph, Michael Seligmann, takes the name Eschelbacher. One of his sons, Löb Eschelbacher, became the main teacher at the Israelite Community School in Hainstadt and was the father of Josef Eschelbacher. On March 26, 1879, he married Ernestine, born Benario (* 1858, † 1931 in Berlin) from Wertheim . From this marriage there were six children: Max (* 1880 in Bruchsal; † April 20, 1964 in London), later rabbi, Bertha, Johanna, Klara and Julie. The sixth child died early.

Life

After graduating from high school, Josef Eschelbacher went to the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau from 1868 to 1877 in order to receive training as a rabbi. At the same time he studied Arabic, history and philosophy at the university. At the University of Halle-Wittenberg he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD . In 1876 he took up the position of district rabbi in Bruchsal . In 1895 he was elected vice-president of the newly established Israelite state synod . During his time in Bruchsal, the new synagogue was built in 1880 and, together with other Bruchsal Jews, he founded the state association for the education of Israelite orphans in the Grand Duchy of Baden in 1888 . In 1899 Eschelbacher was called to Berlin as a rabbi.

Grave of Josef and Ernestine Eschelbacher in the Jewish cemetery in Berlin-Weißensee

Josef and Ernestine Eschelbacher found their final resting place in the Jewish cemetery in Berlin-Weißensee (field G1, row of honor).

Awards

Works

  • Attempt of a history of the Israelite tribes, with special consideration of the information contained in the blessing of Jacob, in the blessing of Moses and in the love of Debora about the same , inaugural dissertation of the University of Halle-Wittenberg 1873
  • Commemorative speech for the immortalized Mr. Ernst Wertheimer , 1879
  • Two speeches on the Talmud given in the synagogue in Bruchsal , Trier (Sigmund Mayer) 1892
  • Speech at the bier of the immortalized Dr. Hillel Sondheimer . District and conference rabbis in Heidelberg , 1899
  • Judaism in the Judgment of Modern Protestant Theology , 1907
  • Judaism and the essence of Christianity , 1905, 2nd ed. 1908

literature

  • Jürgen Stude: History of the Jews in Bruchsal . Publications on the history of the city of Bruchsal, vol. 23, Verlag Regionalkultur, Ubstadt-Weiher 2007, ISBN 978-3-89735-441-8 , pp. 115–119.
  • Elmar Weiss: The righteous live through their loyalty. Löb Eschelbach (1804–1881), Dr. Josef Eschelbacher (1848–1916), Ernestine Eschelbacher, b. Benario (1858–1931): Notes and biographical notes on two Jewish generations in Germany , publications by the Association for Research into Jewish History and the Care of Jewish Monuments in the Tauber Franconian Region, Vol. 3, 1996

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death register StA Berlin III, No. 1247/1916
personal data
SURNAME Eschelbacher, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rabbi
DATE OF BIRTH 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Hainstadt
DATE OF DEATH December 3, 1916
Place of death Berlin