Löb Bodenheimer

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Löb Moses Bodenheimer (born December 13, 1807 in Karlsruhe ; died August 25, 1868 in Krefeld ) was a rabbi . He worked in Hildesheim from 1831 to 1844 and in Krefeld from 1844 to 1855. He was the last chief rabbi of the Krefeld Consistory .

family

Löb Moses Bodenheimer was the son of Moses Bodenheimer and Rebecca Moses. He married Fanny Tobias in Hamburg in May 1832 . The couple had two children, son Hermann (born 1833) and daughter Ida (born 1836), who died in 1855 at the age of 19. The tombstones of him and his daughter in the Jewish cemetery in Krefeld have been preserved.

Life

Bodenheimer attended high school in Karlsruhe. In 1826 he began to study philosophy , theology , philology , pedagogy and political science at the University of Würzburg . At the same time he attended the yeshiva ( Talmudic college ) of Rabbi Abraham Bing . In 1828 he made his doctorate . In 1830 he received the rabbi diploma from Rabbi Ascher Löw . A year later he became a rabbi in Hildesheim . On August 6, 1844, he was elected chief rabbi of the Krefeld consistory. It was introduced on May 8 and 9, 1845, after it had been naturalized by the State of Prussia .

In 1847 the first unified Prussian Landtag passed the law on the conditions of the Jews and abolished the consistorial system. The Krefeld Consistory was finally dissolved in 1863. From now on Bodenheimer was rabbi of the Jewish community in Krefeld. It included the Krefeld district . He retained the title of Chief Rabbi on account of his honor.

Bodenheimer devoted himself particularly to the school system. He founded an association for the training of Jewish teachers and craftsmen. During his term of office the new synagogue was built in Krefeld and inaugurated in 1853.

He was a member of the German Oriental Society .

Fonts

  • Brotherly help: Lecture on Sabbath Seder Matoth in the Israelitisches Tempel zu Hildesheim , Hildesheim 1835
  • Faith: Lecture for the confirmation celebration on the festival of the week 5594 (1834) in the Israelitisches Tempel zu Hildesheim , Hildesheim 1835
  • The school: Lecture as the introduction to a public examination at the Israelitische Volksschule zu Hildesheim , Hildesheim 1835
  • Virtue: Lecture on Passover in the Israelite Temple in Hildesheim , Hildesheim 1836
  • Marital duties: Lecture at a wedding ceremony in the Israelitisches Tempel zu Hildesheim , Hildesheim 1836
  • The will with the name of a donation, according to rabbinical sources , Gehrich Verlag, Krefeld 1848
  • Sermon for the inauguration of the New Synagogue in Crefeld on June 17, 1853 , Gehrich Verlag, Krefeld 1853, 15 pages
  • The paraphrase of the Arabic translation of R. Saadja Gaon , in: Monthly for the history and science of Judaism 1855, issue 1
  • Ha'azinu - The song of Moses. A scientific comparison of the transmissions contained in this Pentateuch section in Walton's polyglot with reference to some more recent translations , Krefeld 1856
  • Mosi's blessing: A scientific comparison of the transmissions contained in this Pentateuch section in Walton's polyglot, taking into account the Greek and Arabic variants , Krefeld 1860

literature

  • Allgemeine Zeitung des Judenthums 1856, No. 49, 20th year, p. 660f.
  • Allgemeine Zeitung des Judenthums 1868, No. 37, 32nd year, p. 738f.
  • Israel Schwarz: Speech at the open grave of Chief Rabbi Loeb Bodenheimer…: held Friday the 10th Elul 5628 August 28, 1868. Verlag G. Gehrich, Krefeld 1868, 13 pages.

swell

  1. ↑ Brocke, Michael; Carlebach, Julius: Biographical Handbook of the Rabbis / The Rabbis of the Emancipation Period in the German, Bohemian and Greater Poland Countries 1781–1871, Munich 2004

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predecessor Office successor
Lion Ullmann Rabbi of Krefeld Jakob Horowitz
personal data
SURNAME Bodenheimer, Löb
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bodenheimer, Löb Moses; Bodenheimer, Levi; בודנהימר, לוי
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Grand Rabbi
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1807
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 1868
Place of death Krefeld