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Seal mark of Kopfstein as a rabbi of the synagogue community of Beuthen

Max Kopfstein also: Markus Kopfstein (born 1856 in Pomáz , Hungary; died on August 31, 1924 in Bad Nauheim ) was a German rabbi .

Life

From 1874 he was a preacher and religion teacher in Pasewalk , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. In 1883 he became a rabbi in Elbing (West Prussia; now Warmia-Masuria, Poland). In 1886 he followed Benjamin Höchstätter as district rabbi in Bad Ems; Associated with this was membership in the board of the German-Israelite Children's Home Association in Diez an der Lahn . In 1889 he was appointed rabbi and religion teacher at the higher education institutions in Bytom (Silesia, Poland), where in 1919 he took over the function of chief rabbi of the synagogue community. As such, he was appointed an expert in the peace negotiations of the Versailles Treaty for Jewish questions in Upper Silesia . He was a member of the Association of Israelite Teachers in Silesia and Poznan, as well as the Hebrew Literature Association Mekize Nirdamim . In the Upper Silesian Cultural Association, he represented Jewish education. During the First World War he was a border rabbi .

Laser Weingarten succeeded him in 1890 in the office of district rabbi in Bad Ems .

He died in 1924 of heart failure during a stay at a spa in Bad Nauheim .

Publications

  • History of the synagogue community in Beuthen O.-S. , 1891
reprinted in: Gemeindeblatt Oberschlesien 3, 1938, no. 13, pp. 3–5, and no. 14, p. 3

Documents

  • CJA Berlin, 1, 75 E No. 286, fol. 1
  • CJA Berlin, 1, 75 A Pa 3 No. 92 (unfollowed)
  • CJA Berlin, 1, 75 Me 1 No. 1, fol. 63
  • CJA Berlin, 1, 75 El 2 No. 18, fol. 163, 167, 169-170
  • CJA Berlin, 1, 75 No. 22, fol. 31, 82-82v.

literature

  • Lippe, 1899, I, p. 211
  • GB , April 11, 1919 (Volume 83, No. 15)
  • GB , June 13, 1919 (Vol. 83, No. 24), 4
  • Israelite , July 10, 1919 (vol. 60, no.27)
  • JLZ , September 5, 1924 (Vol. 4, No. 30), p. 5
  • CVZ , September 13, 1924 (Vol. 3, No. 37), pp. 552f
    • Official colleague Braunschweiger (Oppeln) in the Nekrolog: An enthusiastic and gripping speaker, gifted with a heart that exhaled warmest love and constant helpfulness [...] .-
  • Der Oberschlesier 7 (1925), pp. 43-46
  • IFH , November 5, 1925
  • CVZ , August 30, 1934 (Vol. 13, No. 35), p. 8 On the 10th anniversary of death
  • Gleiwitzer-Beuthener-Tarnowitzer Heimatblatt , 16 (1966), No. 9, pp. 38-40
  • Siegbert Neufeld, 1971, p. 210 (cf. Neufeld, Elbing , 1992, p. 68)
  • Ernst G. Lowenthal: Jews in Prussia. Reimer, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-496-01012-6 , p. 121
  • Siegbert Neufeld : History of the Jewish community in Elbing. Edited by Eva Blau, Peter Hoenig, HV Schulz-Klingauf. CH-Verlag, Regensburg 1992, pp. 47-49
  • 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. 202.
  • PK Hessen , p. 377
  • Handbook of Austrian Rabbis (?), 2: 5514

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Brocke , Julius Carlebach (ed.): Biographisches Handbuch der Rabbis. Part 2, Volume 1, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-24874-0 , Article 2308, page 346 f.
  2. ↑ Abbreviations and acronyms, s. discussion
personal data
SURNAME Cobblestone, max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German district rabbi
DATE OF BIRTH 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Pomáz , Hungary
DATE OF DEATH August 31, 1924
Place of death Bad Nauheim