Moritz Poppelauer

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Moritz Poppelauer (actually Moses Poppelauer ; born January 24, 1824 in Kalisch , Russian Empire ; died August 17, 1888 in Karlsbad , Bohemia ) was a Berlin bookseller and antiquarian and a publisher specializing in Hebrew literature and Judaica .

Life

Moritz Poppelauer first studied the scriptures of the Bible and the Talmud in Kalisch with the chief rabbi Salomon Eger , before studying philology and oriental languages at the University of Leipzig until 1852 . To the Dr. phil. He received his doctorate from the University of Jena .

Label from "M. Poppelauer's Buchhandlung ”at Neue Friedrichstrasse 59 in Berlin ; used around 1929–1933.

After Poppelauer temporarily worked as a private tutor in Frankfurt am Main , he founded the Poppelauer'sche Verlagbuchhandlung in Berlin in 1860 with an attached antiquarian bookshop M. Poppelauer , "[...] which was considered the second oldest Hebrew bookstore in Germany".

In addition to synagogue compositions and songs by Louis Lewandowski , Moritz Poppelauer published numerous educational and religious works.

In collaboration with Moritz Poppelauer, Rabbi Simon Bernfeld gave a work from his estate entitled The Jewish Tradition. Sequence of Jewish teachers and sages from the beginning of Jewish teaching to 1650 of the common era .

After Poppelauer's death, his widow and daughter initially continued to run the bookstore until his son-in-law Jacob Saenger took over the company in August 1894. His wife was murdered in the Theresienstadt concentration camp during National Socialism in 1942 , while her son Erich (born May 4, 1907; died October 18, 1979) after the so-called " Reichskristallnacht " in 1938 together with his wife Lotte , née Mannheim , followed England could emigrate .

Lotte Saenger, in turn, bequeathed the M. Poppelauer Collection with documents on family and company history from the period from 1895 to 1960 to the Leo Baeck Institute , Center for Jewish History , based in New York .

literature

  • Salomon Wininger : Large Jewish National Biography Vol. 5, 1931, p. 70.
  • Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century. Volume 2: J-R. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , p. 1064 (No. 8167) ( limited preview in the Google book search).

Publications

  • Dr. M. Poppelauer's Berlin People's Calendar for Israelites ...; provided with literary notes and a memorial sheet . Publisher by M. Poppelauer, Berlin (published 1870 to 1928).

Web links

Commons : M. Poppelauer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Ernst Fischer , Stephan Füssel (Ed.): History of the German book trade in the 19th and 20th centuries . Volume 2: The Weimar Republic 1918–1933 . De Gruyter, Berlin; Boston 2012, ISBN 978-3-598-24809-2 , pp. 168, 395, etc. ( Preview via Google Books).
  2. ↑ a b Timothy Ryan Mendenhall: Guide to the M. Poppelauer Collection, 1895-1960 / AR 7231 (in English) on the Leo Baeck Institute's findingaids.cjh.org page , last accessed on March 11, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Poppelauer, Moritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Poppelauer, Moses
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Judaist, bookseller, antiquarian and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH Kalisz , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH 17th August 1888
Place of death Carlsbad , Bohemia