Joseph Ber Soloveitchik

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Joseph Ber Soloveitchik (born February 27, 1903 in Pruschany , Belarus , Russian Empire ; died April 9, 1993 in Boston , USA ) (Hebrew: יוסף דב הלוי סולובייצ'יק), called "The Rav", was an Orthodox rabbi , Talmud scholar and modern Jewish philosopher.

Life

Joseph Ber Soloveitchik was the son of a rabbinical scholar, his grandfather was the parish rabbi of Brest Chaim Soloveitchik . He studied in Berlin from 1926 to 1932, where he received his doctorate with a thesis on Hermann Cohen . One of his most important teachers, both in academic and theological terms, during his time in Berlin was Eugen Wednesday , who at that time was known primarily in Germany as the founder of modern, contemporary oriental studies , but also a well-known Orthodox-Jewish legal scholar and " rabbi " in the original Literal sense was. He was ordained by Abraham Kahana Shapiro . In 1932 he emigrated to the USA and became a rabbi in Boston . In 1941 he took over the leadership of the Talmud Faculty at Yeshiva University in New York City from his father . Soloveitchik wrote a great number of books and essays, he had many students at the university.

Fonts (selection)

  • Ish ha-halakha . New York, 1944 (The Halachic Man) (Hebrew)
    • Halakhic Man . Philadelphia, 1983

literature

  • Lawrence Kaplan: Ish ha-halakha (The Halachic Man). In: Dan Diner (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture (EJGK). Volume 3: He-Lu. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-476-02503-6 , pp. 142–146.
  • Christian M. Rutishauser: Josef Dov Soloveitchik. Introduction to his thinking. Stuttgart Kohlhammer 2003, ISBN 3-17-018220-X ( Judaism and Christianity 14), (At the same time: Univ., Diss., 2002: Halachic existence. ).
  • Sebastian Wogenstein: Horizons of Modernity: Tragedy and Judaism from Cohen to Lévinas. Heidelberg: Winter 2011, ISBN 978-3-8253-5851-8 ( New Forum for General and Comparative Literature 46), (Chapter: "Joseph B. Soloveitchik - Tragedy and Halachic Man", pp. 179-192).

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personal data
SURNAME Soloveitchik, Joseph Ber
ALTERNATIVE NAMES יוסף דב הלוי סולובייצ'יק
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Orthodox rabbi, Talmud scholar and modern Jewish philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Pruschany , Belarus
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 1993
Place of death Boston , USA