Judah Bergmann

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Julius Judah Bergmann (also Julius Jordan Bergmann , Julius Bergmann , Yehuda Bergmann , born 1874 in Bereschany , Galicia , Austria-Hungary ; died November 22, 1956 in Jerusalem , Israel ) was a Galician-German-Israeli rabbi .

Life

Judah Bergmann studied at the rabbinical seminary in Vienna from 1893 to 1897 and passed the rabbinical examination. In 1897 he graduated as Dr. phil. at the University of Vienna . He then worked as a rabbi in Moravia ; first in Loschitz , then in Friedeck . From 1901 Judah Bergmann was a rabbi in Karlsruhe . After 1906 he was a rabbi in Frankfurt (Oder) . From 1908 he lived in Berlin . Judah Bergmann co-founded the Free Jewish Adult Education Center in Berlin in 1919, where he also gave lectures. Through the lectures and seminars lasting several months offered in various lecture halls throughout Berlin, young and adult Jews should be given the opportunity “to be systematically instructed about Judaism by an expert” with the aim of “raising Jewish self-confidence”. For a long time he was Vice President of the Association for Jewish History and Literature in Berlin. In April 1934 he had to flee Germany because of the Nazi seizure of power and emigrated to Palestine with his wife and youngest daughter Lotte . There he became a rabbi at Hadassah Hospital and at the Czech synagogue in Jerusalem .

family

Judah Bergmann was married to Hedwig Rosenzweig (1882–1951), with whom he had eight children.

  • Ernst David Bergmann (1903 in Karlsruhe - 1975)
  • Rose Weiler (December 20, 1905 in Karlsruhe - 1998)
  • Arthur Bergmann (December 16, 1906 in Karlsruhe - October 26, 1979)
  • Felix Bergmann (August 17, 1908 in Berlin - 2002)
  • Alfred Bergmann (1910 in Berlin - 1940)
  • Josef Bergmann (1913 in Berlin - 2005)
  • Theodor Bergmann (1916 in Berlin - 2017)
  • Lotte Hanna Walter (April 1918 in Berlin - 1984)

Works

  • Jewish Apologetics in the New Testament Age . G. Reimer, Berlin 1908.
  • Social ethics in Judaism: for the fifth general meeting in Hamburg in 1913 . Ed .: Association of German Jews. Kauffmann, Frankfurt am Main 1914.
  • The legends of the Jews . CA Schwetschke & Son, Berlin 1919.
  • Hugo Gressmann, Ismar Elbogen, Judah Bergmann, Michael Guttmann, Julius Guttmann, Leo Baeck: Developmental stages of the Jewish religion: with contributions by Leo Baeck . A. Töpelmann, Geissen 1927.
  • Ismar Elbogen, Judah Bergmann: Memorial book for Moses Mendelssohn . Ed .: Association of associations for Jewish history and literature in Germany. M. Poppelauer, Berlin 1929.
  • Judaism: Thought and Formation . Rubin Mass, Berlin 1933.

Judah Bergmann wrote articles on Jewish history and folklore in the monthly magazine for the history and science of Judaism.

literature

Web links

  • Abraham Meir Habermann: Bergmann, Judah. In: encyclopedia.com. Retrieved January 2, 2018 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Torsten Lattki: Benzion Kellermann: Prophetisches Judentum und Vernunftreligion . In: Michael Brenner, Stefan Rohrbacher (eds.): Jewish religion, history and culture . tape 24 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen / Bristol 2015, ISBN 978-3-525-57040-1 , p. 342 .
  2. ↑ without author: memorandum on the establishment of the free Jewish adult education center in Berlin . 1918 (Centrum Judaicum. Foundation New Synagogue Berlin, Archive. 1, 75 C Ve 3, No. 54, # 13127, Bl. 1).
  3. ^ Theodor Bergmann : companions . VSA: Verlag, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-89965-443-1 , p. 213–222 ( vsa-verlag.de [PDF; 231 kB ; accessed on January 2, 2017]).
  4. ^ Fabre Mathilde. In: Le comité Français pour Yad Vashem / yadvashem-france.org. November 27, 2013, accessed January 2, 2018 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Miner, Judah
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bergmann, Julius Judah (full name); Bergmann, Julius Jordan; Bergmann, Julius; Miner, Yehuda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Galician-German-Israeli rabbi
DATE OF BIRTH 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Bereschany , Galicia , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH November 22, 1956
Place of death Jerusalem , Israel