Moses Bloch

Moses Bloch (born October 6, 1804 in Gailingen , Baden ; died March 13, 1841 in Buchau am Federsee , Württemberg ) was a German rabbi .

Life

Moses Bloch was the son of the farmer Isaac Bloch and the Jeannette-Schöne Levi. He was a Talmud student in Endingen , Switzerland for two years .

Bloch went to Karlsruhe in 1820 . There he studied at Elias Wormser'schen Lehrhaus with Jakob Ettlinger and at the Yeschiwa von Ascher Löw . From 1823 he also attended the local lyceum. In 1825 he followed Jakob Ettlinger to the Lemle-Moses-Klaus in Mannheim . On 30 October 1827 he enrolled at the Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg and studied there for two years theology . Because of his poverty, his fees were waived. At the same time he studied the Jewish subjects with Rabbi Salomon Fürst. His professor Paul recommended him to Württemberg, where there was a shortage of candidates at the time. On May 25, 1829, he passed the state examination in Stuttgart as one of the first four state-certified rabbis in Württemberg.

On October 26, 1829 Bloch became rabbinical administrator in Oberdorf. In 1834 he became the district rabbi in Bad Buchau am Federsee.

On April 7, 1835 Bloch married Nanette Lindmann (died 1865), daughter of Jakob Lindmann from Mannheim, to whom he had been engaged for eight years. They had two sons.

Bloch is assigned to Reform Judaism . He attended the Abraham Geiger synod in Wiesbaden in 1837. In 1839 he became a member of the "Association of Jewish Scholars".

Moses Bloch was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Buchau (tombstone no. 722).

Publications (selection)

• Two speeches at the inauguration of the new synagogue in Buchau. 1839.
• About an old Mspt. of the Commentary Rashi on the Pentateuche. In: Abraham Geiger (Ed.): Scientific journal for Jewish theology. IV. Volume, Fr. Brodhag`sche Buchhandlung, Stuttgart 1839, Issue 1, pp. 138-140 ( digitized from Compact Memory ).
• About the Jewish fast days. In: Scientific journal for Jewish theology. IV. Volume, Stuttgart 1839, Issue 2, pp. 205-223 ( digitized from Compact Memory ).
• (Anonymous :) Stability and Reform. From a rabbi from Württemberg and about behavior with the dying. By the same author. In: Isaac Markus Jost (Ed.): Israelitische Annalen. A central paper for the history, literature and culture of the Israelites of all times and countries. First year, Johann David Sauerländer, Frankfurt am Main 1839, No. 27, p. 209 f. ( Digital version with compact memory ).
• (Signed with "B" :) Reply to the [...] request to the rabbis of Württemberg. From one of them. In: Israelitische Annalen. First year, Frankfurt am Main 1839, No. 47, p. 371 ( digitized from Compact Memory ).
• (Signed with “MB” :) Obituary for the Buchau rabbinical administrator HM Landauer in: Israelitische Annalen. III. Year, Frankfurt am Main 1841, No. 9, p. 69 ff. ( Digital version at Compact Memory ).

Literature (selection)

• Obituary by Rabbi Samuel Meyer from Hechingen in: Israelitische Annalen. III. Year, Frankfurt am Main 1841, No. 24, p. 192 ( digital copy from Compact Memory ).
• Moritz Steinschneider : Catalogus librorum Hebraeorum in Bibliotheca Bodleiana, jussu curatorum digessit et notis instruxit. Berlin 1852–1861, Volume II, Col. 801.
• The Jewish Encyclopedia. A descriptive record of the history, religion, literature, and customs of the jewish people form the earliest times. Ed. by Isidore Singer, New York 1901-1906; Vol. III, p. 257.
• Aaron Dancer: The History of the Jews in Württemberg. 1937; Reprinted in Frankfurt am Main 1983, p. 141.
• Entry BLOCH, Moses. 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, No. 0162, p. 196 f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tatjana Ilzhöfer: The Jewish cemetery in Bad Buchau. Unpublished basic documentation on behalf of the city of Bad Buchau, 1992.