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Laser Weingarten (born January 5, 1863 in Felsberg (Hesse) ; died April 6, 1937 in Bad Ems ) was a German rabbi .

Grave of the district rabbi Laser Weingarten in the Jewish cemetery in Bad Ems

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He first attended the Jewish elementary school in his hometown before moving to the Lyceum Fridericianum in Kassel . At Easter 1883 he finished his high school in Trier with the Abitur. Studies at the rabbinical school and the university in Berlin followed . He completed this on January 27, 1888 with a dissertation at the University of Halle on a biblical topic. This was followed by a two-year study visit to Russia and, in February 1890, the takeover of the district rabbinate in Bad Ems and Nassau , from 1851 Benjamin Höchstätterand from 1886 on Max Kopfstein had led. In the last years of his work he also looked after the rabbinical district of Weilburg . In 1918 he was awarded the Cross of Merit for War Aid. In 1931 he retired. Friedrich Laupheimer took over his office as district rabbi . Laser Weingarten's grave is in the Jewish cemetery in Bad Ems .

Memberships and volunteer work

  • Member of the association of traditionally law-abiding rabbis in Germany
  • Member of the German Reich Association of Jewish Religious Teachers
  • 1892 co-founder of the Emser Heilquelle sanatorium for Jews in need of health care who are socially disadvantaged
  • around 1894 board member of the German-Israelite Children's Home Association in Diez
  • Founder in 1897 and chairman until 1931 of the Central Orphanage and Girls' Home Association in Bad Ems , where he also gave religious instruction. After Weingarten's death, the orphanage was converted into a retirement and rest home for Jewish teachers, cantors and social workers.
  • during the First World War he taught mathematics at the secondary school on behalf of a drafted teacher
  • Co-founder of the Eintracht Lodge Koblenz

Publications

  • The Syrian Massora according to Bar-Hebraeus : The Pentateuch , Diss. Halle 1887.
  • Together with Lichtenstein: Care for the unfavorable Jewish nervous and mentally ill , report of the Grand Lodge for Germany UOBB 14, 1905.

Documents

literature

  • Der Israelit January 5, 1905 (vol. 46, no. 2), p. 21.
  • Der Israelit January 7, 1915 (vol. 56, no. 2), p. 5 ( digitized in compact memory. UB Goethe University Frankfurt am Main ).
  • Der Israelit September 12, 1918 (Vol. 59, No. 37), p. 5.
  • The Israelite May 5, 1927 (vol. 68, no. 18) ( digitized ).
  • UOBB , p. 267.
  • Der Israelit January 5, 1933 (vol. 74, no. 1), p. 11 ( digitized version ).
  • Israelitisches Familienblatt , Hamburg, January 12, 1933 on the occasion of his 70th birthday
  • Der Israelit April 22, 1937 (vol. 68, no. 16), p. 6f
  • PK Hessen , pp. 332 f., 377, Jerusalem 1992 (hebr.)
  • Entry WEINGARTEN, Laser, Dr. In: Michael Brocke and Julius Carlebach (editors), edited by Katrin Nele Jansen with the assistance of Jörg H. Fehrs and Valentina Wiedner: Biographisches Handbuch der Rabbis. Part 2: The rabbis in the German Empire, 1871–1945. K G Saur, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-5982487-4-0 , No. 2659, p. 643 f.

Web links

Commons : B´nai B´rith  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Syrian Massora according to Bar-Hebraeus: The Pentateuch. Diss. Halle 1887.
  2. ↑ Michael Brocke , Julius Carlebach (ed.), Biographisches Handbuch der Rabbis II / 2 (2009), Article 2659, page 643 f., ISBN 978-3-598-24874-0 .
  3. ↑ Abbreviations and acronyms, s. discussion
personal data
SURNAME Vineyard, laser
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German district rabbi
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Felsberg / Hesse
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 1937
Place of death Bad Ems