Mordechai Piron

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Mordechai Piron (born on 28. December 1921 in Vienna as Egon Pisk , died on 28. May 2014 in Jerusalem ) was a chief rabbi and Major General of the Israel Defense Forces .

Piron came from a religious family. His mother was from Slovakia . The family lived in Leopoldstadt .

Mordechai Piron attended elementary school and the Sperlgymnasium in Vienna. After Austria's annexation in 1938, his parents sent their only son with the Jugendalija to Palestine on the ship “Galiläa”.

After attending the Mikveh Israel Agricultural School , he studied at various yeshivot (Talmudic schools). His teachers included Rabbi Zwi Jehuda Kook at Merkas HaRaw Kook in Jerusalem and Rabbi Jakob Moshe Charlap. In 1952, Piron was ordained a rabbi by Chief Rabbi Isaak HaLevy Herzog . He also studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at a university in London .

Shortly after his immigration, Piron joined the Hagana . He fought in the Israeli War of Independence and was wounded. After the establishment of the state , he served in the newly formed Israel Defense Forces. As the successor to Shlomo Goren , he held the post of Ashkenazi chief rabbi in the army from 1969 to 1980 . His last military rank was Aluf (major general).

After retiring from the army, he served from 1980 to 1992 as chief rabbi of the Israelitische Cultusgemeinde Zurich , the largest Jewish community in Switzerland . Then he returned to Israel.

Mordechai Piron was buried in the Har HaMenuchot cemetery in Jerusalem.

Piron was married and had two children. His wife and daughter had died of illness in quick succession.

Fonts

  • The Land of Israel in the light of the Jewish worldview. In: The New Israel. 33.7, Zurich 1981, 327-329.
  • With Ernst Braunschweig and Ralph Weingarten: Anti-Semitism. Dealing with a Challenge. Festschrift for Sigi Feigel's 70th birthday. Jordan-Verlag, Zurich 1991, ISBN 3-906561-24-0 .
  • Religion in the State of Israel Today. In: The triangle in the sand - 50 years of the State of Israel. 1997. [1]
  • The rationalist Maimonides. Thinker of Judaism. In: construction . The Jewish monthly magazine. April 2011.
  • With Heinrich Fries , Hans Küng , B. Reinert, Fritz Stolz : world religions challenged today. M + T, Zurich 1984.
  • The Roman initiative to rebuild the temple. In: Structure. No. 4, 2009, pp. 10-12.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erika Weinzierl, Otto D. Kulka (editor): Expulsion and new beginnings. Israeli citizens of Austrian origin. Böhlau, 1992, p. 95 f.
  2. ↑ Erika Weinzierl, Otto Dov Kulka (editor): Expulsion and a new beginning. Israeli citizens of Austrian origin. Böhlau Verlag Vienna 1992.
  3. ↑ Obituary. Mordechai Piron is dead. In: Jüdische Allgemeine. May 28, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Piron, Mordecai
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pisk, Egon (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli Chief Rabbi and Major General
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 2014
Place of death Jerusalem