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Lazar coin
Münz 'tombstone in Ansbach

Eleazar (Lazar) ben Aryeh Leib (Löb, Löw) Münz (born May 2, 1837 in Tarnów , Western Galicia , † January 4, 1921 in Ansbach , Bavaria ) was an Austro-Galician rabbi and author. He was considered a "master and teacher in Israel, a prince of Jewish science" .

Life

Lazar Münz came from an educated Austrian-Galician rabbi family, was the son of Rabbi Aryeh Leyb Mints ( Arie Löb Münz , approx. 1798–1891), honorary rabbi in Bielitz , and the Rivka Esther Sheindel Bloch-Garfinkel (?? - 1879) and the grandson of the famous rabbi Eleazar Löw (1758-1837), after he was also named and whose detailed biography he published in 1895 under the title Rabbi Eleazar, called Schemen Rokeach .

At the age of 17 he already had a comprehensive, profound Talmudic knowledge. In the years 1860/1861 he studied at the Jewish Theological Seminary of Breslau and was by the rabbis of Israel Rappaport in Tarnów, Moses Leib Bloch (1815-1909) in Leipnik and Szymon Schreiber - in (?? 1883) Krakow ordained .

Münz was chief rabbi in Auschwitz (Western Galicia) from 1867 to 1877 and at the same time district rabbi of the Wadowice district and from 1877 to 1905 in Kempen near Posen . Soon after taking up his duties, he founded a Jewish school here and taught there several times a week. In 1905 he moved to Würzburg and soon afterwards to his daughter Jettl and son-in-law Arnold Klein , who was then a rabbi in Nuremberg .

He moved with both of them to Ansbach in 1914, where he worked tirelessly on the completion of his writings until the last moment, with a fresh spirit. He was buried on January 6, 1921 in the Jewish cemetery in Ansbach (northern part of the cemetery, row 4, stone 10). It was not until eleven years after his death that his Hebrew work Get Mesudar appeared in 1932, on issues of an orderly divorce.

Münz was married to Lea Luise Kleinmann, a businessman's daughter from Tarnów, where he was born. From this marriage came three sons, the rabbi Wilhelm Münz (1856–1917) in Gleiwitz , the rabbi Isaak Münz (1857–1932) in Berent and finally Philipp (Pinkus) Münz (1864–1944), general practitioner in Nuremberg and Bad Kissingen , and daughter Jettl (?? - 1935), who was married to Abraham Isaak Arnold Klein (1875–1961), rabbi in Nuremberg and Ansbach.

Works (selection)

  • אשריך ארץ שמלכך בן-חורים: Civil liberty brings good fortune. Speech given to celebrate the birth of Sr. Majesty, our Lord and Emperor Franz Josef I on August 18, 1867 , Oswiecimer Israelitischen Cultus-Gemeinde, Auschwitz 1867
  • Words spoken on the 26th of Elul at the inauguration of the new temple in Seybusch. To say goodbye to the old church, which has now been used as a teaching school , self-published, 1871
  • Words of mourning about the passing of Mr. Israel Israeli, head of the Israelite Cultus community in Andrichau , spoken on the evening of his funeral day, the 1st Cheswan 5635 (1874), Verlag Brüder Winter vom Herzfeld & Bauer, 1875
  • Three speeches on political tendencies , Breslau 1879
  • The modern accusations against Judaism proven to be false , Verlag J. Kauffmann , Frankfurt am Main 1882
  • Religious issues of the time , Verlag Louis Lamm, Berlin 1887 (several editions)
  • Rabbi Eleazar, called Shemen Rokeach. A biography, at the same time an introduction to the train of thought and the teaching method of rabbinical literature , Verlag S. Mayer, Trier 1895
  • תורת נשים: Torat Nashim. A book for the Jewish wife , with an addition: Teachings of our wise men about raising children , Verlag AJ Hofmann, 1908 (several editions until at least 1935)
  • Get Mesudar (Orderly Divorce), Hebrew work on divorce issues , Biłgoraj near Lublin (Poland) 1932

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rabbi Dr. Lazar Münz - The memory of the righteous is a blessing , obituary in: Der Israelit from January 20, 1921 ( online )
  2. ↑ Rabbi Dr. Lazar Münz - The memory of the righteous is a blessing , obituary in: Der Israelit from January 20, 1921 ( online )
  3. ↑ Michael Brocke , Julius Carlebach , Carsten Wilke: Biographisches Handbuch der Rabbis , 2004, page 445 ( digitized version )
  4. ↑ Leibl Rosenberg : Traces and Fragments. Jewish books, Jewish fates in Nuremberg , joint exhibition by the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Nuremberg and the Nuremberg City Library on the city anniversary of Nuremberg 950 years, Nuremberg 2000, page 134 ( excerpt )
  5. ↑ Rabbi Dr. Lazar Münz - The memory of the righteous is a blessing , obituary in: Der Israelit from January 20, 1921 ( online )
  6. ↑ Gravestone inscription
  7. ↑ title page
  8. ↑ A literary estate , in Der Israelit, February 7, 1929 ( online )
personal data
SURNAME Coin, Lazar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Coin, lasar; Münz, Eleazar ben Aryeh Leib
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austro-Galician rabbi
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1837
PLACE OF BIRTH Tarnów , Western Galicia
DATE OF DEATH January 4, 1921
Place of death Ansbach , Bavaria