Max Grunwald

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Max Grunwald (born October 10, 1871 in Zabrze , Upper Silesia; died January 24, 1953 in Jerusalem ) was a rabbi in Hamburg and Vienna and author of works on Jewish history and folklore .

Life

Grunwald studied in Breslau and received his doctorate there in 1892 as a doctor of philosophy on Baruch Spinoza . At the same time he attended the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau and was ordained a rabbi. He took up his first position in 1895 at the New Dammthor Synagogue in Hamburg. This synagogue was administered by one of three Hamburg synagogue associations and belonged to the conservative movement . In addition to his office as rabbi, Grunwald devoted himself to Hamburg's Jewish history and to Jewish folklore. He was instrumental in founding the Society for Jewish Folklore and was the publisher of the Society's communications until 1929.

In 1903 Grunwald moved to Vienna. There he worked first in the Turnergasse synagogue of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde , then from 1913 at the Leopoldstädter Tempel . In 1930 he gave up this office in favor of his research activities. After the annexation of Austria , Grunwald was imprisoned for a short time and was then able to emigrate. He settled in Jerusalem, where he died in 1953. His estate is in the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People .

Grunwald was married to Margarethe Bloch, the daughter of the rabbi and Austrian MP Joseph Samuel Bloch . His son Kurt (1901–1988) was a banker and economist in Jerusalem and published on topics of Jewish economic history, including "Turkish deer " about Baron Maurice de Hirsch .

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Grunwald researched primarily on Jewish folklore and the Jewish cemeteries. He published not only in the communications he edited but also in other magazines on the subject. He also wrote several writings on the history of the communities of Vienna and Hamburg. His contribution to the hygiene exhibition in Dresden in 1911 led to a book Hygiene der Juden (1912). He also published two prayer books, one for women (“ Berurja ”) and a “prayer book for Israelite soldiers in war”.

Fonts (selection)

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  • Portuguese graves on German soil. Janssen, Hamburg 1902.
  • Beruria : prayers and devotions for Jewish women and girls. Edition for young girls. Schlesinger, Vienna 1909.
  • Wartime prayers for Israelite women and girls. Schlesinger, Vienna 1914.
  • Le cimetière de Worms . In: Société des Études Juives (ed.): Revue des études juives. 104, pp. 71-111 (1938).

literature

  • Kirsten Heinsohn (Red.): The Jewish Hamburg. A historical reference work . Published by the Institute for the History of German Jews. Wallstein, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-8353-0004-0 , p. 99.
  • Grunwald, Max . In: Cecil Roth (Ed.): Encyclopaedia Judaica . Volume 7: Fr - Ha . Jerusalem, Encyclopaedia Judaica 1971, pp. 950/951
  • Biographical handbook of German-speaking emigration after 1933 . Published by the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich. Volume 1: Politics, Economy, Public Life . Saur, Munich et al. 1980, ISBN 3-598-10087-6 .
  • Grunwald, Max. In: Biographisches Handbuch der Rabbis (Ed. Michael Brocke and Julius Carlebach s "l), Part 2, Volume 1, The Rabbis in the German Empire 1871-1945 (edited by Katrin N. Jansen), Munich 2009, Pp. 249-254, ISBN 978-3-598-24874-0

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Remarks

  1. ^ Inventory ( Memento of December 30, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Grunwald, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Rabbis, historians and folklorists
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Zabrze
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 1953
Place of death Jerusalem