Moïse Nordmann

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Moïse Nordmann ( September 20, 1809 in Hégenheim - April 24, 1884 in Basel ) was an Alsatian rabbi and author of poems and scholarly articles.

Life

Moïse Nordmann was the son of the well-off cattle dealer Emmanuel Nordmann and his wife Madelaine Didisheim. In Nancy Moïse attended a secondary school, he spoke German and French at the same time. In 1828 he enrolled at the University of Heidelberg , during which time he lived with Rabbi Salomon Fürst. He continued his studies at the University of Würzburg and with Abraham Bing . He then became a rabbi in his hometown from July 6, 1834. Nordmann was rabbi of the Hégenheim rabbinate until his death in 1884 . At that time he was the only rabbi in Alsace who had not attended the École centrale rabbinique de Metz .

In 1848 Moïse Nordmann organized the resistance against anti-Jewish riots in Hégenheim. Nordmann was a moderate representative of liberal Judaism , so he was against organs and decorative leaded glass windows in the synagogue . At the same time he campaigned for girls' schooling. He was one of the co-founders of the Israelite Asylum in Hegenheim.

Moïse Nordmann had been married to Augustine Bloch from Efringen since August 27, 1835, and there were nine children from this marriage. His grave is in the Jewish cemetery in Hégenheim .

Works (selection)

  • Mémoire sur la manière d'abattre le bétail selon le rite israélite. In: Archives israélites, 11, 1850, pp. 179-182
  • Bienfaisance et liberté. In: Archives israélites, 16, 1855, pp. 269-271
  • Discours prononcé à l'inauguration du temple israélite à La-Chaux-de-fonds, le 24. juin 1863. Basel 1863
  • Sounds from the Jordan. Collected Hebrew legends and images of life from the Talmud and Midrash, with an appendix of fantasy and casual poems. Basel 1872

literature

  • Dictionnaire biographique des rabbins et autres ministres du culte israélite. France et Algérie, du Grand Sanhédrin (1807) à la loi de Séparation (1905) . Berg International Éditeurs, Paris 2007, ISBN 978-2-911289-97-2 , pp. 586-588.
  • Léa Rogg: Regards sur les communautés juives du Sundgau et alentours: XVIIème au XXIème siècle . Verlag Regionalkultur, Ubstadt-Weiher 2007, ISBN 978-3-89735-499-9 , p. 44ff. [not evaluated]

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personal data
SURNAME Nordmann, Moïse
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French rabbi
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Hégenheim
DATE OF DEATH April 24, 1884
Place of death Basel