Moses Löb Bloch

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Moses Löb Bloch (born February 12, 1815 in Ronsperg , Bohemia ; died August 6, 1909 in Nagymaros , Hungary ) was an Austro-Hungarian rabbi and author. He was considered one of the best experts on the Talmud in Central Europe.

Life

Moses Löb Bloch was the son of Rabbi Elia Bloch from Poběžovice and Ester, the daughter of Eleazar Löw , called Schemen Rokeach.

Moses Löb Bloch received Talmud lessons from the Pilsen district rabbi Philipp Kohner in Schwihau and from 1827 to 1834 from his uncle, Rabbi Wolf Löw in Topoľčany (Nagytapolcsány) in Slovakia (then Kingdom of Hungary ). He attended high school in Pilsen. In Prague he attended the yeshiva von Löb Glogau and the grammar school.

Bloch studied in 1840 at the Karl-Ferdinand University in Prague and became the rabbi ordained .

On April 28, 1841, Bloch was confirmed as rabbi in Wotitz in Central Bohemia. In the same year he married Anna Weishut (died 1886). In 1852 he became rabbi in Hermanmestetz , East Bohemia, and in 1856 in Leipnik , Moravia . There he had a yeshiva.

In 1877 he was appointed director and professor of Talmud at the State Rabbinical School in Budapest . His students there were among others Ludwig Blau , Adolf Büchler, Michael Guttmann , S. Krauss, Martin Mordekhai Schreiner (1863-1926), Ludwig Venetianer (1867-1927), Max Weiss and Ignaz Ziegler. In 1907 he retired.

Moses Löb Bloch wrote some works on Talmudic law.

In 1896 he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Franz Josef Order by Emperor Franz Josef I.

Works (selection)

  • A'arēTōrath ha-Taqqānōth. The institutions of Judaism, arranged and developed according to the historical order given in the sources. (Hebrew), Volume I, 1 Vienna 1879; Vol. I, 2 Przemyśl 1884.
  • The Mosaic Talmudic Police Law. In: Annual report of the National Rabbinical School in Budapest 1879 .; Hungarian: A mozaiko-talmudi rendöri jog. In: A Budapesti Országos Rabbiképzö-Intézet Értesitöje az 1878-79. 1879.
  • Guardianship according to Mosaic-Talmudic law. In: Annual report of the National Rabbinical School in Budapest 1904.
  • The institutions of Judaism. 1879.

literature

  • Chaim David Lippe: Bibliographical lexicon of the entire Jewish literature of the present, and address indicator. A lexically ordered scheme with addresses of rabbis, preachers, teachers, cantors, supporters of Jewish literature in the old and new world, together with precise bibliographical details of all writings and journals published by contemporary Jewish authors, especially those relating to Jewish literature. Vienna 1879–1881, p. 45, reprint: Hildesheim 2003.
  • Meyer Kayserling : The Jewish literature of Moses Mendelssohn up to the present. Publisher by M. Poppelauer, Berlin 1896, pp. 740, 767, 769 ( digitized in the Freimann collection ).
  • The Jewish Encyclopedia. Volume III, p. 257, New York and London 1901-1906.
  • Entry BLOCH, Moses Löb. 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. 0163, p. 197 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.osabraham.wz.cz/index.php?p=article&id=60-vyznamni-rodaci
  2. ↑ Lazar Münz : Rabbi Eleazar, called Schemen Rokeach. A biography. , Trier, 1895, Verlag Sigmund Mayer, p. 55, note 68 online: http://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/freimann/content/titleinfo/5454818
personal data
SURNAME Bloch, Moses Löb
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austro-Hungarian rabbi
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1815
PLACE OF BIRTH Poběžovice , Czech Republic
DATE OF DEATH August 6, 1909
Place of death Nagymaros , Hungary