Joshua Albu

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Josua Falk Albu (born August 12, 1767 in Märkisch-Friedland , West Prussia ; died February 6, 1832 in Schwerin , Mecklenburg-Schwerin ) was a German rabbi .

Life

Joshua Albu was the son of the merchant Falk Albu. He received his first training from the local rabbi in his hometown. In 1782 he went to Prenzlau , Mark Brandenburg, to study the Talmud . In 1788, after the yeshiva was dissolved , he returned to Friedland and married a merchant's daughter there. Several of his children died several years after their birth. Around 1799 he was a trader in Schubin , West Prussia. He lost his fortune in a major fire. He became a private tutor in Arnswalde , Mark Brandenburg. In 1814 he became chief rabbi in Schwerin.

As chief rabbi, he succeeded Marcus (Mordechai) Lazarus Jaffé , whose son Esaias Marcus Jaffé opposed him in the early years and held separate prayer meetings.

One son, Salomon Albu, reached adulthood and later lived in Waren (Müritz) .

Literature (selection)

  • New necrology of the Germans. 10, 1832, p. 83 f.
  • General newspaper of Judaism . An impartial organ for all Jewish interests in politics, religion, literature, history, linguistics and fiction. Edited by Dr. Ludwig Philippson , Volume IV, No. 43, Leipzig 1840, p. 614 ( digitized from Google books ).
  • Leopold Donath : History of the Jews in Mecklenburg from the oldest times (1266) to the present (1874). Leipzig 1874 (Reprint: Vaduz 1984) p. 220 f.
  • Jacob Jacobson (Ed.): The Jewish Citizens' Books of the City of Berlin 1809-1851. Publications of the Historical Commission in Berlin, Quellenwerke Volume 1. de Gruyter Berlin, 1962, p. 420, no. 2238.
  • Carsten Wilke : The Talmud and the Kant: Rabbi training on the threshold of modernity. Netiva Vol. 4, Olms, Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 2003, ISBN 978-3-487-11950-2 , p. 226.
  • Entry ALBU, Joshua. 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, p. 139, no. 0029.

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personal data
SURNAME Albu, Joshua
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Albu, Josua Falk (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rabbi
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1767
PLACE OF BIRTH Märkisch-Friedland , West Prussia
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 1832
Place of death Schwerin , Mecklenburg-Schwerin