Löb Berlin
Löb Berlin , Hebrew: Arjeh-Löb Berlin (born July 1, 1737 in Fürth ; died May 21, 1814 in Kassel ), was a German rabbi .
Live and act
Löb Berlin was the son of Landparnese , banker and court coin supplier Abraham-Meyer Berlin. As a child he came to Berlin with his father . He visited the yeshivot in Fürth and Halberstadt .
He married Rechel Hamburg, daughter of Bendit Hamburg from Fürth.
From 1774 he was allowed to attend the deliberations of the Fürth Rabbinate College. In 1782 he became a Dajan with the chief rabbi Hirsch Janow in Fürth and rabbi in Baiersdorf , in 1789 princely state rabbi in Bamberg , 1795 electoral Hessian state rabbi in Kassel . On October 19, 1808 he was appointed the oldest of the three chief rabbis of the Westphalian Consistory in Kassel and received the title of Consistorial Councilor.
His reform efforts met with strong resistance from the communities. He was in opposition to the chief rabbi of Fürth Meschullam Salomon Kohn , an advocate of Orthodox Judaism , who is said to have excommunicated (banned) him in 1811.
Löb Berlin was the younger brother of Rabbi Noah-Haium-Hirsch Berlin .
Publications
- Speech at the celebration. Hebrew song of praise to King Jérôme with German translation. Kassel 1807.
- Talmudic glosses. Fürth 1829–30 and Wilna.
- Responses in the appendix to Noah-Haium-Hirsch Berlin: 'Asē' Almug-gīm. Sulzbach 1779.
Literature (selection)
- Benjamin Hirsch Auerbach: History of the Israelite community Halberstadt. Halberstadt 1866, p. 91.
- Heinrich Graetz : History of the Jews. From the oldest times to the present. Revised from the sources. Volume XI, Leipzig 1869; 3rd edition edit. by Marcus Brann , Leipzig undated [1893], pp. 290, 386.
- Adolf Eckstein : History of the Jews in the former prince-bishopric of Bamberg. Handels-Druckerei, Bamberg 1898, pp. 176-179, digitized .
- Leopold Löwenstein : History of the Jews in the Electoral Palatinate: presented according to printed and unprinted sources. ( Contributions to the history of the Jews in Germany , vol. I) Frankfurt a. M. 1895, p. 255 ( digitized version ).
- Leopold Löwenstein: On the history of the Jews in Fürth. Second part: rabbinate assessors and other eminent personalities. In: Yearbook of the Jewish-Literary Society in Frankfurt am Main. 6, Frankfurt am Main 1908, p. 72.
- Paul Arnsberg : The Jewish communities in Hesse. Beginning - fall - new beginning . Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1972, ISBN 3-7973-0213-4 , Volume 1: p. 418, Volume 2: p. 411.
- Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography. Orient Printer, Chernivtsi 1927, Volume I, p. 331, Volume VI, p. 462.
- Entry BERLIN, Löb. 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, No. 0134, p. 182f.
Individual evidence
- ^ Monthly for the history and science of Judaism . Dresden, Breslau, Berlin, Volume 22 (1873), p. 192.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Berlin, Löb |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Berlin, Arjeh-Löb (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German rabbi |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 1, 1737 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Fuerth |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 21, 1814 |
| Place of death | kassel |