Joseph Perles

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Joseph Perles (born November 26, 1835 in Baja (Franconian City ), Hungary ; died March 4, 1894 in Munich ) was a German rabbi and Jewish scholar.

Life

He received his first Talmud lessons from his father, Baruch Asher Perles. He then attended the grammar school of his birthplace, where he passed the Abitur in 1855. He was one of the first rabbis to be trained in the new type of rabbinical seminary as in Breslau . He then attended the University of Breslau and received his doctorate in oriental philology and philosophy in 1859. His dissertation was entitled Meletemata Peschitthoniana .

Perles obtained his rabbi diploma in 1862. He had already received a call to Posen as a preacher in the fall of 1862 and founded his religious school there. In 1863 he married Rosalie (1839–1932), the eldest daughter of Simon Baruch Schefftel. In the same year he turned down a call to Budapest , but in 1871 accepted the call to Munich to succeed Hirsch Aub in the office of rabbi. He was the first rabbi there to undergo modern training. The Jewish community there was barely developed because of the registration laws in force until 1861, but it grew under Perles' administration. In 1887 the new synagogue was built to replace the synagogue on Westenriederstrasse, which had become too small . Perles turned down a call as a rabbi to Berlin to succeed Abraham Geiger and a chair at the newly founded Rabbinical Seminary in Budapest .

Perles' most important essays are devoted to Jewish folklore and customs. His studies of Jewish weddings, funeral ceremonies, Hebrew sources of the stories from “1001 Nights” and his discovery of the first Latin version of the Guide of the Undecided of Maimonides in the Munich library are important and innovative works by him .

Perles was a member of the German Oriental Society .

Perles had two sons, Max and Felix. Felix Perles obtained his rabbi diploma in 1898 and became vice rabbi in Königsberg. Max (April 8, 1867 to October 20, 1894) was an expert in ophthalmology and bacteriology, developed the electric ophthalmoscope , taught in Munich and died of blood poisoning caused by an experiment.

The Perles Foundation, dedicated to philanthropy and teaching, was established in Joseph Perle's honor.

literature

Works

  • About the spirit of the Commentary of R. Moses b. Nachman on the Pentateuch and on His relationship to Raschi's Pentateuch Commentary. In: Monthly for the History and Science of Judaism (MGWJ). Dresden, Breslau, Berlin 1858 (1860 edition with additional notes).
  • The Jewish wedding in post-biblical times. In: MGWJ. Leipzig 1860.
  • The funeral ceremonies in post-biblical Judaism. Breslau 1861 (English translation in Hebrew Characteristics. New York 1875).
  • R. Solomon b. Abraham b. Adereth: His Life and His Writings. Wroclaw 1863.
  • History of the Jews in Poznan. Wroclaw 1865.
  • David Cohen de Lara's Rabbinical Lexicon Keter Kehunnah. Wroclaw 1868.
  • Etymological studies for the customer of the rabbinical linguistics and antiquity. Wroclaw 1871.
  • For Rabbinic linguistics and legends. Breslau 1873 (Explanations of words and studies on Hebrew sources of the stories from 1001 nights).
  • King Solomon's throne and circus. Wroclaw 1873.
  • The first Latin translation of the Maimonidischen Führer found in a Munich manuscript. Wroclaw 1875.
  • The book Arugat Habosem by Abraham b. Asriel. Krotoschin 1877.
  • A newly developed spring via Uriel Acosta. Krotoschin 1877.
  • Kalonymos b. Kalonymos ' letter to Joseph Kaspi . Munich 1879.
  • Contributions to the history of Hebrew and Aramaic studies. 1884.
  • The Bernese handwriting of Little Aruch. In: Grätz Jubelschrift. Wroclaw 1887.
  • Ahron ben Gerson Aboulrabi: La Légende d´Asnath fille de Dina et femme de Joseph. Paris 1891 ( digitized ).
  • Contributions to rabbinic linguistics and antiquity. Wroclaw 1893.

Also contributions to the Revue des Etudes Juives and other magazines as well as the publication of the Bi'ure Onḳelos by SB Schefftel (1888). A selection of his sermons were edited by his wife in 1896.

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personal data
SURNAME Perles, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rabbi
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH Baja
DATE OF DEATH March 4, 1894
Place of death Munich