Judah Loeb Landau

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Judah Leo Landau (before 1906)

Judah Loeb Landau (also Jehuda Leib Landau and Juda Leo Landau ; born on April 14, 1866 in Saliszi , Austrian Empire ; died on August 25, 1942 in Johannesburg ) was a rabbi , writer and chief rabbi of South Africa from 1915 to 1942 .

Life

Judah Loeb Landau was the son of the rabbi and poet Moses Issachar Landau. He grew up in Galicia . He received his first lessons from his father, then he attended grammar school in Brody , where he passed the Matura in 1891 . He studied at the Israelite Theological College in Vienna , where he passed the rabbinical exam in 1898, and law at the University of Vienna , where he received his doctorate in the same year .

In Vienna he became acquainted with the World Zionist Organization . In August 1900 he took part in the fourth Zionist Congress in London, from which he reported for HaMagid (המגיד), the oldest Hebrew weekly newspaper founded in Lyck in East Prussia in 1856 . The British Chief Rabbi Moses Gaster was impressed by Landau; he moved him to work in England. In 1901 Landau was appointed rabbi to a Jewish community in Manchester .

In 1903 he was appointed rabbi in Johannesburg and was soon considered the spokesman for the Jews in South Africa. In 1915 he was appointed Chief Rabbi of South Africa. He initiated the establishment of the Beth Din Johannesburg, the rabbinical court responsible for South Africa . He was also given the first professorship in Hebrew in South Africa (at Witwatersrand University ). He was chairman of the South African Jewish Ministers' Association and the South African Jewish Historical Society .

Literary work

As a teenager, Landau published poems in Yiddish , then also in Hebrew, and later also plays, stories, novels and numerous other poems. He translated many of the works he wrote in Yiddish into Hebrew himself.

Scientific publications

  • After some time . A Hegelian . S. Calvary & Comp., Berlin 1904.
  • Short lectures on modern Hebrew literature from MH Luzzatto to SD Luzzatto . Witwatersrand University Press, Johannesburg 1923.
  • Judaism in life and literature . Goldston, London 1936.

literature

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b Art. Landau, Juda (h) Leo . In: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin. 18th to 20th century , Vol. 2, Saur, Munich 2002, p. 776.
  2. ^ Art. Landau, Jehuda Leib . In: Salomon Wininger: Large Jewish National Biography , Vol. 3. Orient, Czernowitz 1928, pp. 570-571.
  3. ↑ HaMagid , August 21, 1900, pp. 385-389 (Hebrew).
  4. ^ Shlomo Rappaport: JL Landau, Thinker and Writer . In: Gustav Saron, Louis Hitz (ed.): The Jews in South Africa. A history . Cumberlege, Cape Town 1955, pp. 283-297.
  5. ↑ Art. Landau, Jehuda Leib Dr. In: Zalmen Zylbercweig: Leksikon fun Yidishn Teater , vol. 2, Warsaw 1934, col. 998.
  6. ↑ Sholem Perlmuter: Yidishe dramaturgn un teater-kompozitors . Ikuf, New York 1952, pp. 120-123 (Yiddish).
personal data
SURNAME Landau, Judah Loeb
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African rabbi
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Saliszi
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 1942
Place of death Johannesburg