Manfred Papo

Manfred Papo (born October 17, 1898 in Baden near Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died May 14, 1966 in Vienna ) was an Austrian rabbi .

Life

Manfred Papo's father Michael Papo (1843–1918) came from Sarajevo and was rabbi of the Turkish-Sephardic community in Vienna for forty years . In 1933 Papo married Luise Fleischer (1914–2002), who later became a religious teacher, and they have a son born in 1945. Papo's mother and one of his sisters were victims of the Holocaust , as were Luise Fleischer's parents.

Papo came forward after the war Matura for military service, but was used as a front disabled only in forestry. Papo studied oriental languages, Latin and Greek at the University of Vienna and began training as rabbis at the rabbinical seminary in Salzburg. He received his doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1922 and was ordained at the Vienna Rabbinical Seminary and, in 1938, with the Sephardic Chief Rabbi for Yugoslavia. The Yiddish he did not learn language.

From 1925 to 1928 Papo was the district rabbi in Salzburg and then went back to Vienna as a religion teacher, where he became a pragmatic civil servant . From 1934 he worked as a rabbi in St. Pölten .

After Austria was annexed in March 1938, Papo was retired in October 1938. After the November pogroms in 1938, he was taken to the Dachau concentration camp and abused there. His wife was able to organize a visa for Guatemala , so that Papo was released after three months of imprisonment in a concentration camp on the condition that he would leave the German Reich immediately afterwards, and indeed for good. The two traveled to London and received a paper from the London “Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue” that allowed them both to stay in Great Britain, but on the condition that they did not take up work. When the war began, Papo was briefly interned as an enemy alien in a camp on the Isle of Man . He was active as a volunteer rabbi in Manchester .

In February 1944 they took a ship from Liverpool to Durban and from there by land to Salisbury in the British colony of Southern Rhodesia , where Papo had been elected rabbi in September 1943. From April 1944 onwards, Papo was rabbi and director of the Jewish school in Salisbury for 20 years . Luise Papo worked there as a teacher for the Jewish religion.

For health reasons Papo had to leave the high altitude of Salisbury and went back to Vienna in 1964, where he only worked for a short time as a religion teacher at the Wasagasse grammar school , when he suddenly died.

Fonts (selection)

• The sexual ethics in the Koran in relation to its Jewish sources . Berlin, 1925 Yearbook for Jewish Folklore [NF] ii, pp. 171–291
• Hebrew reader from the Holy Scriptures. Part 2, From the Psalms and Prophets . Vienna: Phaidon, 1933

literature

• Gabriele Anderl: As a rabbi and as a religion teacher in Southern Rhodesia: Manfred and Luise Eva Papo , in: Margit Franz, Heimo Halbrainer (ed.): Going east - going south: Austrian exile in Asia and Africa . Graz: Clio, 2014 ISBN 978-3-902542-34-2 , pp. 313–321
• 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. 549

Web links

Commons : Manfred Papo  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Manfred Papo in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• 60th anniversary, 1931-1991, of the Sephardi Hebrew Congregation of Zimbabwe , at ufdc