Mendel Rosenbaum

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Mendel Rosenbaum (* 1782 in Theilheim , Hochstift Würzburg , † September 22, 1868 in Zell am Main , Kingdom of Bavaria ) was a German Orthodox rabbi and spokesman for the Bavarian Jews.

Life

Mendel Rosenbaum was the son of the Theilheim local rabbi Izik Löb Rosenbaum. He studied the Talmud until he was 18 and was ordained as a rabbi .

Rabbi Abraham Bing , "with whom he was very friends," conveyed that Rosenbaum was able to win one of the former first students of the Würzburg yeshiva as a private teacher for his children. "Even if the costs involved were out of proportion to his assets at the time, he did not pay any attention ... In order to keep Lazarus Bergmann, who was already excellent at the time, as a teacher for his children, he indicated that he would endeavor to 'to use' him later as a daughter man . "

In the course of the Hep-Hep riots in 1819, many yeshiva students and other Jews from Würzburg fled to the surrounding area, including to Rabbi Rosenbaum in Theilheim near Werneck. Rosenbaum moved with his family and miner to the secularized Unterzell monastery in 1822 and founded a new community with some of the Würzburg residents who had fled. There the cattle and goods dealer set up a grocery store and a nail smithy.

In August 1823 Bergmann married in Zell Ricke (Rivke Cilla; 1806–1844), a daughter of Mendel Rosenbaum. From 1825 Bergmann ran his father-in-law's nail smithy; after his Aliyah with his wife and children in 1834, Rosenbaum's eldest son, master nail smith Moses Rosenbaum, continued them. Two other sons of Rosenbaum, whom Bergmann had instructed, also became rabbis, Elias Raphael Rosenbaum (in Zell a. M .; 1810–1886) and Jona Rosenbaum (1822–1894), head of the Talmud school in Zell. As promised, Bergmann wrote to his father-in-law about each stage of the journey. Rosenbaum collected the letters in a folder that were rediscovered in the attic in Zell in May 1925 and later published as a book by his great-great-great-grandson. Seven months passed from departure to settlement in Jerusalem.

Rosenbaum's economic ventures in Unterzell together with the Oberzell-based high-speed printing press factory owned by Koenig & Bauer were decisive for the market rights of Zell am Main, which were obtained from 1833 . In 1850 Rosenbaum used himself successfully with the Bavarian state government for the approval of money collections in favor of Bergmanns Kolel Holland weGermany .

Mendel Rosenbaum was the spokesman for Lower Franconian Orthodox Judaism thanks to good relations with the Oberpräsident Graf Rehberg in Würzburg and the court secretary Theodor von Zwehl in Munich . It was on his initiative that Seligmann Bär Bamberger was elected as district rabbi in Würzburg in 1840 and the reform rabbi Neuburger in Aschaffenburg in 1845.

In 1854, Mendel Rosenbaum received an audience with the Bavarian King Maximilian II (1811–1864) as a rabbi and was able to negotiate that "all recently existing, restrictive laws for the trade of Israelites in this country were repealed". In the magazine Der Treue Zionswächter of September 22, 1854, it goes on: “In this matter, as for all the Israelites, Mr. Mendel Rosenbaum, who was well known and respected by his strict piety and his honest, upright character, had to be from Zell near Würzburg made an excellent effort. Before the publication of these laws by the Royal Ministry of the government there, His Majesty gave up on giving Mr. Rosenbaum personal information as to how suitable his efforts would be and, in recognition of his efforts and merits, what would be appropriate soon. "

Honors

The Mendel-Rosenbaum-Haus in Zell is named after him.

literature

  • David Tachauer: Family table of the descendants of Mendel Rosenbaum Zell. Ha'aretz Press, Tel Aviv 1959.
  • Berthold Strauss: The Rosenbaums of Zell. A Study of a Family. Hamakrik Book & Binding Co., London 1962, p. 13 ff.
  • Ursula Gehring-Münzel: From Protected Jew to Citizen. The social integration of the Würzburg Jews 1803–1871. Schöningh, Würzburg 1992, ISBN 3-87-717768-9 , p. 361 f.
  • Roland Flade: The Würzburg Jews. Your story from the Middle Ages to the present. 2nd Edition. Würzburg 1996, p. 95 f.
  • Falk Wiesemann : Judaica bavarica: New bibliography on the history of the Jews in Bavaria. Klartext, Essen 2007, ISBN 978-3-8986165-4-6 .
  • ROSENBAUM, Mendel. In: Michael Brocke and Julius Carlebach (eds.), 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, ISBN 3-598-24871-7 , p. 748.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c N. N .: Rabbi Mendel Rosenbaum: לזכר עולם יהי׳ צדיק! In: The Israelite . November 4, 1868 (No. 45, vol. IX), pp. 829-832, here p. 830 ( digital copy from Compact Memory ).
  2. ↑ See Lazarus Wolf Bergmann. In: Wiki for Würzburg. accessed on December 13, 2016.
  3. ↑ a b cf. Zell am Main (Würzburg district) Jewish history / synagogue. Section Reports from the history of the Jewish community and the Rosenbaum family. In: Alemannia Judaica . Working group for research into the history of the Jews in southern Germany and the neighboring region, accessed on December 12, 2016.
  4. ↑ Cf. The Rosenbaum family in Zell am Main ( memento from January 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), section: The nail forge. In: zellerlaubhuette.de, accessed on December 21, 2016.
  5. ↑ NN: Rabbi Mendel Rosenbaum: לזכר עולם יהי׳ צדיק! In: The Israelite. November 4, 1868 (No. 45, vol. IX), pp. 829-832, here p. 832 ( digital copy from Compact Memory).
  6. ↑ Cf. Lazarus (Elieser) Bergmann:ישאו הרים שלום: מיכתבי מסע ועלייה 1834–1836 גורל משפחה יהודית שעלתה מגרמניה לישראל בתחילת המאה התשע עשרה. Edited by Avraham Bartura. Dphus Achwah, Jerusalem 1976 ( hebrewbooks.org ).
  7. ↑ cf.הרב אליעזר ברגמן. In: min-hahar.co.il, accessed December 19, 2016.
  8. ↑ See from Middle Franconia. In: Allgemeine Zeitung des Judentums . July 29, 1850 (No. 31, vol. XIV), pp. 426-429, here p. 428 ( digital copy from Compact Memory).
  9. ↑ digital version with compact memory; see also: On the merits of Mendel Rosenbaum with regard to legal relief for the Jews in Bavaria (1854). In: alemannia-judaica.de, accessed on December 18, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Rosenbaum, Mendel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rabbi
DATE OF BIRTH 1782
PLACE OF BIRTH Theilheim (Waigolshausen)
DATE OF DEATH September 22, 1868
Place of death Zell am Main