Mojsije Margel

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Mojsije Margel also Croatian. Mojsije Moše Margel or Moshe Margel (born November 13, 1875 in Mościsko , formerly West Galicia , Austria-Hungary , now Poland ; †  April 30, 1939 in Zagreb , Kingdom of Yugoslavia ) was a Yugoslav rabbi , lexicographer and Hebraist .

Religious life

Mojsije Margel attended a Talmud school . After successfully completing this, Margel began his Jewish theological studies in the seminaries in Vienna and Berlin . He successfully took the subject of Jewish philosophy in Berlin and Bern . Margel first worked as a rabbi in the Slovak city of Ružomberok .

In 1903 he took over the job as a rabbi and Jewish religion teacher in the Croatian town of Požega . There Margel worked in the Jewish community and as a religion teacher at the schools in Požega. In 1908 he became a member of the Committee of Jewish Rabbis in the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia . During the First World War , Mosije Margel took over the pastoral care of the Zagreb military rabbinate and was appointed royal rabbi from 1915 to 1918. In 1917 he was awarded the Military Merit Cross of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy for his service on the Isonzo Front .

In 1919 he became director of the Jewish elementary school in Zagreb . In the Kingdom of Yugoslavia Margel was a rabbi of the Jewish community in Zagreb from 1927 to 1937 . Due to health problems , Mojsije Margel retired from his service as a community rabbi after 1937. He died on April 30, 1939 in Zagreb.

The Margel Institute in Zagreb was named after his name.

Scientific activities

Margels scientific activities were primarily in Hebrew studies , especially in Hebrew literature and lexicography . Mosije Margel was valued in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia for his expertise. Already at the age of 15 Margel sent a poem written in Hebrew to the Jewish magazine Ha-Maggid . In Krakow, Poland, he later published the Hebrew journal Ozar Hasifrut together with Hebrew philologists and writers .

In his dissertation "The Blessing of Jacob" Margel deals thematically and critically with various midrashim , in particular with the aggadic midrash Bereschit Rabba . In 1906 he published a German-Hebrew dictionary in Požega, which can also be regarded as his life's work. Margel had special merits due to the translation (in collaboration with the Croatian high school teacher Max Kuntarić) of Jaroslav Vrchlický's work Bereschit Rabba into the Croatian language . This translation was published in Požega in 1912. His activities also included a number of studies and articles that Margel published in various Hebrew journals.

In the Kingdom of Yugoslavia he was editor of the Jewish Almanac . Margel also produced supplements and editions for the Jewish Encyclopedia . Mojsije Margel started to compile a Croatian-Hebrew dictionary, but this work remained unfinished due to his death.

In addition to the Croatian rabbi of the Jewish community in Varaždin , Herman Ekzekiel Kaufmann, Margel is one of the Maskilim .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ljiljana Dobrovšak: FRAGMENTS FROM THE HISTORY OF THE CROATIAN JEWS DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR (1914-1918) . In: Review of Croatian History . No. 1 , 2014, p. 113-134 . ; P. 117
personal data
SURNAME Margel, Mojsije
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Margel, Mojsije Moše; Margel, Moshe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Rabbi of the Jewish Community of Zagreb and Požega
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Mościsko, Poland
DATE OF DEATH April 30, 1939
Place of death Zagreb