Josef Weisse

Josef (also: Joseph) Weisse (born November 23, 1812 in Plumenau , Moravia ; died December 2, 1897 in Waag-Neustadtl , Slovakia , Kingdom of Hungary ) was a German-Moravian rabbi and translator.

Josef Weisse was the son of a Chasan . He attended David Buchheim's Talmud school in Kojetein . In Prague he completed an educational and academic course together with Moritz Steinschneider and Leopold Löw .

In 1837, Weisse became a teacher at the community school in Proßnitz , and in 1841 headmaster in Prerau . He later became a rabbi in Kosteletz (Bohemia), and in 1845 in Gaya (Moravia). He belonged with Abraham Placzek and three community leaders to the Comité for Moravian-Jewish Affairs . In 1855 he became a rabbi in Waag-Neustadtl. He founded a Jewish secondary school there.

From 1841 to 1850, Weisse worked under the pseudonym Lebena for Julius Fürst's magazine Der Orient. Reports, Studies, and Reviews for Jewish History and Literature.

Josef Weisse was married to Charlotte Donat. Her son Arnold was a publicist in Vienna and Hamburg , her son Dr. Samson Weisse (1857–1946) rabbi in Dessau and Berlin , her daughter Dorothea married Moritz Grünwald, rabbi in Jungbunzlau and Hamburg.

Publications (selection)

• Justification of some of the erroneous passages from famous authors cited by Mr. IS Reggio in his Torah and Philosophy, as evidence how even the most thorough of scholars are in error. In: Literaturblatt des Orient. 1840, Issue 37, Leipzig 1840, pp. 584-587 ( digitized in compact memory ).
• Translation of Lessing's fables into Hebrew.
• Collaboration on Landau's Bible edition.

literature

• Israelite annals. A central paper for the history, literature and culture of the Israelites of all times and countries. Year 1840, issue 4, ed. by Isaac Markus Jost, Frankfurt am Main 1840, p. 28 ( digitized from Compact Memory ).
• General newspaper of Judaism . An impartial organ for all Jewish interests in politics, religion, literature, history, linguistics and fiction. Edited by Dr. Ludwig Philippson , IX. Year, No. 23, Berlin 1845, p. 346 ( digitized from Compact Memory ).
• Moritz Steinschneider : Catalogus librorum Hebraeorum in Bibliotheca Bodleiana, jussu curatorum digessit et notis instruxit. Volume II: Auctores. Berlin 1852–1861, Sp. 2716 ( digitized in the Freimann Collection ).
• Chaim David Lippe: Bibliographical lexicon of the entire Jewish literature of the present, and address indicator. A lexically ordered scheme with addresses of rabbis, preachers, teachers, cantors, supporters of Jewish literature in the old and new world, together with precise bibliographical details of all writings and journals published by contemporary Jewish authors, especially those relating to Jewish literature. Vienna 1879–81, p. 528, Reprint: Hildesheim 2003.
• Meyer Kayserling : The Jewish literature of Moses Mendelssohn up to the present. Publisher by M. Poppelauer, Berlin 1896, pp. 745, 896 ( digitized in the Freimann collection ).
• Bernhard Wachstein : The Hebrew Journalism in Vienna [1821-1889]. Part I, Vienna 1930, p. 239 ( digitized in the Freimann collection ).
• Heinrich Flesch: Rabbinical diplomas. In: Journal for the History of the Jews in Czechoslovakia. 1930, No. 2, pp. 110–112 ( digitized version from Compact Memory ) with the Weisses contract of employment in Kyjov (Gaya) printed.
• Hugo Gold (Ed.): The Jews and Jewish communities of Moravia in the past and present. A compilation. Brno 1929, pp. 204, 300.
• Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography. Volume VI, 1932, p. 248 f. ( Digitized in the Freimann Collection ).
• Entry WHITE, Josef. 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 , p. 895.