Joseph Jacobsen
Joseph Jacobsen (born November 24, 1897 in Hamburg ; died January 15, 1943 in London ) was a German Jewish music teacher and composer .
Life
Jacobsen received his education at the Talmud Tora School and at the Heinrich-Hertz-Realgymnasium in Hamburg, where he passed the Abitur in 1916. He completed his studies in musicology and the languages French, English and Hebrew in Munich, Leipzig and Hamburg in 1924 in Hamburg with a doctorate. Instead of a conducting career that would not have been compatible with the Sabbath commandments , he worked as a teacher at the Talmud Torah School from 1923 to 1939, where he a. a. founded and directed the school choir and the school orchestra and performed his own works with them. In 1935 he and Erwin Jospe published the songbook הבה נשירה (Hawa naschira) - Auf! Let's sing out that included German, Hebrew and Yiddish songs and strengthened Jewish cultural identity against Nazi anti-Semitism .
In the course of the November pogroms in 1938 , Jacobsen was arrested along with the entire staff of the Talmud Torah School and held in Sachsenhausen concentration camp for eleven days . In March 1939 he emigrated with his wife and four children to London, where he taught Jewish refugee children from Germany at the Jewish Secondary School . This activity was interrupted after the beginning of the war by an internment for several months as an enemy alien on the Isle of Man ; there, too, he worked as a choir and orchestra conductor.
Jacobsen died of a serious illness in London at the age of 45.
Aftermath
Jacobsen's two-part canon is known beyond specialist circles. from Hawa naschira ; the text was underlaid by Hans-Hermann Bittger 1983. The Catholic prayer and hymn book Gotteslob contains the canon under no. 450, as well as in several regional parts of the Evangelical hymnal .
literature
- Ursula Randt : Jacobsen, Joseph . In: The Jewish Hamburg. A historical reference work
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jacobsen, Joseph |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jacobsen, Josef |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Jewish music teacher and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 24, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 15, 1943 |
| Place of death | London |