Louis Lewin (rabbi)

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Louis Lewin (born December 29, 1868 in Znin , Posen Province ; died December 22, 1941 in Tel Aviv ) was a German rabbi and historian.

Life

Louis Lewin attended the municipal high school in Frankfurt am Main and then had lessons from Rabbi Markus Horovitz . He studied at the Universities of Heidelberg and Berlin and received his doctorate in Heidelberg in 1892. He then attended the rabbinical seminary in Berlin and took the rabbinical exam there in 1895 . Lewin was married to Meta Fraenkel and they had two daughters and two sons, including Daniel Lewin (1901), who became a rabbi in Canada after emigrating.

From 1895 to 1897 he was collegiate rabbi in Inowrazlaw , then rabbi in Pinne . In 1905 he became a rabbi in Kempen in the province of Posen , where he was a member of the Association for Jewish History and Literature. He then became a rabbi in Katowice and in 1925 went to Wroclaw as a rabbi of the Orthodox Abraham Mugdan Synagogue, director of a Jewish school for children in need, and of the religious school , where he also taught at the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) from 1933 . In 1929 he published the museum catalog for the Jewish Museum in Breslau.

Lewin did research on Jewish history in East Germany and Poland, he collected writings and archival material and wrote around one hundred essays, especially on genealogy.

Lewin emigrated to Palestine after the Reichspogromnacht in 1939 and moved to Bnei Berak .

Fonts (selection)

  • Rabbi Simon ben Jochai . A historical picture of the times from the second century AD . Frankfurt a. M.: Kauffmann, 1893, dissertation Heidelberg 1892
  • From the past of the Jewish community zu Pinne . Pin: Gundermann, 1903
  • History of the Jews in Lissa . Tiller, 1904
  • The Jewish students at the University of Frankfurt ad Oder . Berlin: L. Lamm, in: Yearbook of the Jewish-Literary Society Frankfurt am Main, 1921, 1923, 1924
  • The regional synod of the Greater Poland Jews . Frankfurt a. M., J. Kauffmann, 1926

literature

  • Lewin, Louis. In: Julius Carlebach , Michael Brocke (eds.): Biographisches Handbuch der Rabbis , part 2. Munich: Saur, 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-24874-0 , pp. 389–391
  • Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945. Edited by the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 230f.
  • Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Hrsg.): Biographical manual of the German-speaking emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Politics, economy, public life . Munich: Saur, 1980, p. 441
  • Lewin, Louis. In: Encyclopaedia Judaica , Volume 11, 1971, Col. 173
  • Daniel Lewin: Louis Lewin in memoriam . 1968
  • Guido Kisch : Necrologue Louis Lewin 1868-1941. In: ders. Selected writings. 2. Research on the legal, economic and social history of the Jews: with a directory of Guido Kisch's writings on the legal and social history of the Jews . Sigmaringen: Thorbecke, 1979 ISBN 3-7995-6017-3 , p. 437f. First in: Historia iudaica; a journal of studies in Jewish history, especially in legal and economic history of Jews , 1942, pp. 177f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Daniel Lewin. In: Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Hrsg.): Biographical handbook of German-speaking emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Politics, economy, public life . Munich: Saur, 1980, p. 441
personal data
SURNAME Lewin, Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rabbi and historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Znin , Poznan Province
DATE OF DEATH December 22, 1941
Place of death Tel Aviv