Meyer Abeles

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Meyer Abeles (* approx. 1806 in Nikolsburg , Austrian Empire ; † August 23, 1887 in Kittsee , Burgenland , Austria-Hungary ) was a rabbi and Dayan .

Life

With his Talmud studies he occupied himself in Pressburg as a student of Moses Sofer . He later married a daughter of the Dajan Mendel Katz († April 3, 1847) in Kittsee and from 1837 held the office of a Dajan himself. From 1844 or 1847 he also worked as a rabbi in Kittsee.

literature

  • Carsten Wilke : Biographical manual of the rabbis . Ed .: Michael Brocke, Julius Carlebach. Part 1: The rabbis of the emancipation period in the German, Bohemian and Greater Poland countries 1781–1871 , volume 1 . KG Saur, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-598-24871-7 , p. 121 .