Moritz Rahmer

Moritz Rahmer (born December 16, 1837 in Rybnik , Upper Silesia ; died March 2, 1904 in Magdeburg ) was a German rabbi , publicist and editor .

Moritz Rahmer went to the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau at the age of 16 . In November 1857 he also enrolled at the university there . In July 1860 he received his doctorate in Leipzig . In 1862 he received the rabbi diploma as one of the first three graduates of the Breslau seminary.

In 1862 Rahmer became a rabbi in Thorn (West Prussia) and at the same time head of the elementary and religious school there.

From 1867 he was a rabbi in Magdeburg. He was the first rabbi in Prussia to be a city councilor (1876-1894) and at times a member of the municipal school commission. He made great contributions to Jewish life in Magdeburg. Among other things, he founded the Widows and Orphans Support Association, the Women's Association and the Mendelssohn Lodge.

Among other things, he was the editor of various supplements to the Israelitische Wochenschrift , which he headed for almost twenty years. This includes, for example, the Jewish literature sheet .

Publications

• The Hebrew Traditions in the Works of Jerome. Critically illuminated through a comparison with the Jewish sources. Dissertation Leipzig 1860. From this published:
  • Volume I: Quaestiones in Genesin. Wroclaw 1861.
  • Volume II: Quaestiones in Libros Regum. In: Ben-Chananja. Monthly for Jewish theology and for Jewish life in congregations, synagogues and schools. Szeged 1864.
  • Volume III: Quaestiones in libros Paralipomenon. Thorn 1866.
  • The Commentarii on the 12 minor prophets. 1st half [Hosea to Micha]. In: Monthly for the history and science of Judaism. (Special print) Berlin 1902.
• On the introduction to Maimonides' Commentary on Mishnah. Wroclaw 1860.

literature

• Entry RAHMER, Moritz, Dr. In: Michael Brocke and Julius Carlebach (editors), edited by Carsten Wilke : Biographisches Handbuch der Rabbis. Part 1: The rabbis of the emancipation period in the German, Bohemian and Greater Poland countries 1781–1871. K G Saur, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-598-24871-7 , pp. 727f.

Web links

• Literature by and about Moritz Rahmer in the JCS University Library Frankfurt am Main: Digital Collections Judaica
• Moritz Rahmer in the Magdeburg Biographical Lexicon