Josef Nechemja Kornitzer

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Josef Nechemja Kornitzer (1925)
Kornitzer's tombstone in the New Jewish Cemetery in Krakow

Josef Nechemja Kornitzer ( Hebrew יוסף נחמיה קורניצר, born December 12, 1880 (10. Tevet 5641) in Nagyszőlős (Yidd. Söjlesch), Austria-Hungary ; died April 28, 1933 (2. Ijjar 5693) in Krakow , Republic of Poland ) was a Hungarian-Polish rabbi .

Life

Josef Nechemja Kornitzer was born in 1880 as the son of Rabbi Akiba Kornitzer. His mother was Reisel, the daughter of Simon Schreiber (Sofer) (1820-1883), chief rabbi in Cracow. On the day of his Brit Mila , his mother passed away. He lost his father when he was eleven years old. Therefore, he spent his childhood with his maternal uncle, Schlomo Alexander Sofer-Schreiber. He received his religious education from 1849 to 1920 from Yehuda Greenwald.

In 1901 he married Breindel, the daughter of Pinchas Chaim Klein from Nagyszőlős. He turned down the rabbinical position he was offered and preferred a managerial position at a soap factory. Only after the soap factory had burned down did he take the rabbi position. He also became director of the yeshiva in Nagyszőlős in 1912 . After his father-in-law's death, he took over his position as rabbi in Nagyszőlős, which became part of Czechoslovakia in 1918 .

In 1925 he moved to Cracow and was elected Rabbi Cracow. He held this position for eight years until his death in 1933.

The son Shmuel Schmelka Kornitzer (also Samuel Szmelkes Kornitzer), born in 1905 , also became a rabbi in Cracow. One son-in-law was Schabtai Frankel, the other son-in-law Menachem Zvi Eisenstadt. He was a council member of the city of Krakow and fled to the USA during World War II , where he founded a yeshiva.

Kornitzer died in Cracow after a long illness. He was buried in the New Jewish Cemetery (Nowy cmentarz żydowski w Krakowie) in Krakow. There are inscriptions on the front and back of his tombstone.

Fonts (selection)

  • "חידושי רבי יוסף נחמיה" (Hebrew: The discoveries of Rabbi Joseph Nechemja )
  • "תורת רבי יוסף נחמיה" (Hebrew: Torah of Rabbi Joseph Nechemja )
  • "דרשות רבי יוסף נחמיה" (Hebrew: Draschot of Rabbi Joseph Nechemja )

literature

  • Leszek Hońdo: Nowy Cmentarz Żydowski w Krakowie . Przewodnik - Part 1. Księgarnia Akademicka, Krakow 2006, ISBN 83-7188-916-X , pp. 86-88.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ LCCN  no93-036470
  2. ↑ N. Vielmetti:  Schreiber (Sofer), Simon. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 11, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-7001-2803-7 , p. 198.
  3. ↑ Jonas Keppel: Jews and Judaism of Today, clearly presented: a manual . 1925, p. 726 ( limited preview in Google book search).
personal data
SURNAME Kornitzer, Josef Nechemja
ALTERNATIVE NAMES יוסף נחמיה קורניצר (Hebrew); Kornitzer, Josef Nechemia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian-Polish rabbi
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Nagyszőlős , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 1933
Place of death Krakow , Republic of Poland