Mordechai Breuer (historian)

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Mordechai Breuer

Mordechai Breuer (born August 4, 1918 in Frankfurt am Main ; died May 28, 2007 in Israel ) was an Israeli historian of medieval and modern Jewish history.

Life

Mordechai Breuer was a son of the lawyer and philosopher Isaac Breuer and Jenny Breuer, née Eisenmann. He attended the Samson Raphael Hirsch School in Frankfurt until 1934 and then went to England. In the wake of the German persecution of Jews after the handover of power to the National Socialists , the family had to emigrate to Palestine in 1936 . There he first served in the Hagana and then worked as a teacher. In 1943 Breuer married the Berlin émigré Fanny Levy, who raised seven children together. Breuer studied social work in London in 1943 and went to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp with a Jewish aid organization after the war . In 1948 he was reinstated in the Haganah in Israel .

Breuer ran a children's village in Gedera near Tel Aviv from 1950 to 1957 and worked at the Horeb School in Jerusalem, of which he was director from 1960 to 1969. He wrote his master's thesis at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1961 on David Gans . Breuer was founded in 1967 with a dissertation on the Ashkenazi yeshiva late medieval doctorate . After working as a senior lecturer at Bar-Ilan University and visiting professorships in Haifa and Harvard, he was appointed professor of Jewish history at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan in 1980. During this time Breuer wrote local articles for the third volume of Germania Judaica, the monumental, historical-topographical handbook on Jewish history in the Middle Ages. Together with Arye Maimon and Yacov Guggenheim , he ultimately took over the editing of the second and third volumes.

With his socio-historical study of Jewish orthodoxy in the German Empire, Breuer wrote a standard work on the history of German Jewry in the 19th and 20th centuries. In 1999 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Trier . Two years earlier he had accompanied the establishment of the university-based Institute for the History of the Jews, now the Arye Maimon Institute , with an honorary speech.

Fonts (selection)

  • Jewish Orthodoxy in the German Empire 1871–1918. Social history of a religious minority . Jewish publishing house at Athenaeum, Frankfurt am Main 1986
  • Modernity within tradition . Columbia University Press, New York 1992
  • German-Jewish history in modern times. Vol. 1. Tradition and Enlightenment: 1600–1780 . Beck, Munich 1995
  • Neighbors - known and yet strange. Documentation of the opening ceremony of the Institute for the History of the Jews, University of Trier, June 9, 1997 (= small writings of the Arye Maimon Institute). Kliomedia, Trier 1998.
  • Oholei Torah: The Yeshiva, Its Structure and History . Merkaz Zalman Shazar, 2003
  • (Ed.): Isaac Breuer : Weltwende . Ahva, Jerusalem 1979.
  • (Eds.): Arye Maimon, Yacov Guggenheim: Germania Judaica. Vol. III: 1350-1519 (3 parts), JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck), Tübingen 1987-2003.

literature

  • Breuer, Mordechai . In: Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (eds.), International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 , Vol. II, Part 1. Saur, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 154.
  • Christian Kraft: Ashkenaz in Jerusalem. The Religious Institutions of Immigrants from Germany in the Jerusalem District of Rechavia (1933-2004) - Transfer and Transformation . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-525-57034-0 .
  • Matthias Morgenstern : From Frankfurt to Jerusalem. Isaac Breuer and the history of the exit dispute in German-Jewish orthodoxy . Mohr, Tübingen 1995, ISBN 3-16-146510-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Christian Kraft: Ashkenaz in Jerusalem. 2014, p. 25, footnote 48.
  2. ^ A b Marc B. Shapiro : Obituary for Prof. Mordechai Breuer zt "l , obituary by Seforim, June 11, 2007.
  3. ↑ Cf. Arye Maimon, Mordechai Breuer, Yacov Guggenheim (Ed.): Germania Judaica, Vol. III: 1350–1519 . JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck), Tübingen 1987.
  4. ↑ Heidi Neyses: Ceremonial award of the honorary doctorate to Prof. Dr. Mordechai Breuer ( Memento of the original from July 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , from University of Trier, August 10, 1999, accessed on April 17, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uni-trier.de
personal data
SURNAME Breuer, Mordechai
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Broiʾer, Mordekhai
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 4, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 2007
Place of death Israel