Joseph Meisl

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Joseph Meisl , also Josef Meisl and Joseph Meisel, (born May 30, 1882 in Brno , Austria-Hungary , † March 4, 1958 in Jerusalem ) was a German-Israeli archivist and historian.

Life

Joseph Meisl studied law and received his doctorate. Meisl became secretary of the Berlin Jewish Community in 1908 and from 1931 headed the "Zion" community library. Meisl had been friends with Simon Dubnow since 1922 , whom he helped with his move to Berlin and for whom he organized a festschrift in 1930 . After the handover of power to the National Socialists in 1933, Meisl emigrated to Palestine in 1934 . In Jerusalem he pursued the plan to save all available archival material on the history of the Jews in the original or in transcription or photocopy. He was assisted by Ben-Zion Dinur . In 1947 , the Central Archive for the History of the Jews was opened , initially in the basement of the National and University Library on the Skopusberg , which then moved to the western part of the city and ran the Meisl until 1957. The log book of the Jewish community in Berlin edited by Meisl could only appear posthumously and with a delay of thirty years.

Fonts (selection)

Haskalah (1919)
  • The Jews In Tender Poland: A Historical Review . Bonn: Marcus, 1916
  • Heinrich Graetz  : an appreciation of the historian and Jew; on his 100th birthday on October 31, 1917 (21st Gheschwan) . Berlin: Lamm, 1917
  • Haskalah: History of the Enlightenment Movement Among the Jews in Russia . Berlin: Schwetschke, 1919
  • History of the Jews in Poland and Russia . 3 volumes. Berlin: Schwetschke, 1921
  • Ismar Elbogen , Josef Meisl, Mark Wischnitzer (eds.): Festschrift for Simon Dubnow's seventieth birthday (2. Tischri 5691) . Berlin: Jewish publishing house, 1930
  • Protocol book of the Jewish community Berlin: (1723-1854) . Ed. With introduction, note and director by Josef Meisl. Edited by Shaul Esh, with the assistance of Georg Herlitz . Jerusalem: Mass, 1962 Introduction German. Text hebrew.
  • The "Hillelist": Lazar Markovič Zamenhof (1859–1917) and the Jewish question . Bad Bellingen: Ed. Iltis, 2013 (Esperanto) ISBN 978-3-943341-05-8

literature

  • Meisl, Joseph , in: Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Hrsg.): Biographical manual of German-speaking emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Politics, economy, public life . Munich: Saur, 1980, p. 487f.
  • Meisl, Joseph , in: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 262
  • Renate Heuer : Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors , Volume 17, Munich: De Gruyter, 2009
  • Felicitas Grützmann: Jewish bibliophilia and German sense of order: The contribution of German-Jewish emigrants to the establishment of an archive and library system in Palestine / Israel . In: Elke-Vera Kotowski (Ed.): The cultural heritage of German-speaking Jews: a search for traces in the countries of origin, transit and emigration . Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2017, pp. 328–336

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Robert Jütte : The emigration of the German-language "Wissenschaft des Judentums": the emigration of Jewish historians to Palestine 1933 - 1945 . Stuttgart: Steiner 1991, pp. 95-98
personal data
SURNAME Meisl, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meisel, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Israeli archivist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Brno
DATE OF DEATH March 4th 1958
Place of death Jerusalem