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Lazar (us) Levi Adler (born November 10, 1810 in Unsleben , Rhön ; died January 5, 1886 in Wiesbaden ) was a state rabbi of Hesse-Nassau and a writer.

Life

He was the son of the teacher Naftali Hirsch Adler ha-Kohen , a retired Kurhessian rabbi, and Deila Rosenberg.

Adler studied the Talmud at the yeshiva of Rabbi Hirsch Kunreuter in Gelnhausen for five years . In 1824 he went to the yeshiva of Chief Rabbi Abraham Bing in Würzburg and received private lessons in high school subjects. In 1830 he graduated as an external student. He then studied at the University of Würzburg in particular with Johann Jakob Wagner (1775–1841). In the winter semester of 1832/33 he studied at the University of Munich and then at the University of Erlangen , where he received his doctorate on December 17, 1833. phil. received his doctorate .

He then became his father's assistant in Unsleben. He passed the state examination. In 1836 he took part in the Würzburg district synod. In March 1838 he was one of the signatories of the Munich petition from 17 vacant rabbinical candidates.

From March 1840 to 1852, Adler was rabbi of the Bad Kissingen district rabbinate for Bad Kissingen and 23 rural communities with a total of 2467 members. In 1852 he was elected rabbi in both Mainz and Kassel . He decided in favor of Kassel and from 1852 he was state rabbi in Kurhessen, the later Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau with his seat in Kassel, where he was highly regarded. As a regional rabbi, he was a member of the " Alliance Israélite Universelle ". In 1884 he retired.

Adler is counted among moderate Reform Judaism . He was a member of the German Oriental Society . In 1868 he hosted the rabbis' meeting in Kassel. He took part in the reform synods in Leipzig (1869) and Augsburg (1871).

Adler was married to Berta Sander (born in Sommerhausen in 1827). He died in Wiesbaden and is buried in the local Jewish cemetery "Schöne Aussicht" (row 18 no. 6).

Publications (selection)

  • De philosophia in libro Iobi effulgente cum adiecta disquisitione de auctore aetateque huius libri. Dissertation Erlangen 1833.
  • Reports from Munich about rabbinate candidates and rabbis in Bavaria in: Allgemeine Zeitung des Judenthums. An impartial organ for all Jewish interests. Edited by Dr. Ludwig Philippson , Leipzig 1837, pp. 224, 450f.
  • As editor: The Synagogue. A Judeo-religious magazine for instruction and edification for Israelites. 1838.
  • What influence should the general mourning of the country have on the attitudes and actions of the children of the country? A sermon at the Kissingen synagogue on December 19. In 1841 there was a funeral service for the most blessed queen widow FW Caroline of Bavaria. Wuerzburg 1841.
  • Expert opinion in favor of Abraham Geiger , November 23, 1842, in: Rabbinical expert opinion on the compatibility of free research with the rabbinical office. Volume II, Breslau 1843, pp. 70-82.
  • Negotiations of the Isralite district synod in Würzburg in 1836. In: David Fränkel (Ed.): Sulamith. Journal for the Promotion of Culture and Humanity among the Jewish Nation . Volume VIII, Issue 2, Leipzig 1843, pp. 19-23 ( digitized from Compact Memory ).
  • The civil position of the Jews in Bavaria. A memorandum to the Chamber of Deputies. Verlag Weiß, Munich 1846.
  • German reading book for Israelite schools. Kassel 1864.
  • The main tenets of the Jewish religion. A concise guide to confirmands teaching. 1872.
  • Hillel and Shamai, or, The Conservative Reform and Stable Conservatism: A Peace Voice to the Churches of Israel and their Leaders. Strasbourg 1878.

literature

  • Meyer Kayserling (ed.): Library of Jewish pulpit speakers. A chronological collection of the sermons, biographies, and characteristics of the finest Jewish preachers. Volume II, Berlin 1872, pp. 222-238.
  • Emanuel Schreiber : The advancing rabbinism. For the 25th anniversary of the land rabbi Dr. Lazarus eagle in Cassel. Koenigsberg 1877.
  • David Chaim Lippe: Bibliographical lexicon of the entire Jewish literature of the present, and address indicator. A lexically ordered scheme with addresses of rabbis, preachers, teachers, cantors, supporters of Jewish literature in the old and new world, together with precise bibliographical details of all writings and journals published by contemporary Jewish authors, especially those relating to Jewish literature. Vienna 1879–1881, pp. 3–5.
  • Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography. Chernivtsi (Chernivtsi) 1925, Volume I, pp. 70f.
  • Jacob de Haas : The Encyclopedia of Jewish knowledge. Page 13, Verlag Behrman's Jewish Book House, 1946 ( excerpt )
  • Entry ADLER, Lazarus Levi, Dr. 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, p. 128 f.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Article in the Allgemeine Zeitung des Judentums from April 25, 1840 [1]
  2. ↑ Article in the Allgemeine Zeitung des Judentums from November 8, 1852 [2]
  3. ↑ The General Israelite Alliance. Report of the Central Committee on the first twenty-five years 1860-1885 , Volume 2, page 72, Alliance israélite universelle (ed.), Commissionsverlag J. Kauffman, Frankfurt am Main 1885 ( excerpt )
  4. ↑ Article in the Allgemeine Zeitung des Judentums from January 19, 1886 [3]
personal data
SURNAME Adler, Lazarus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Adler, Lazar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION State rabbi of the Hesse-Nassau province
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1810
PLACE OF BIRTH Unsleben
DATE OF DEATH January 5, 1886
Place of death Wiesbaden