Moses Präger

Moses Präger ( January 1, 1817 in Altdorf - November 8, 1861 in Mannheim ) was a district rabbi and author of prayer and edification writings.

family

Moses Präger was the son of the rabbi Elias Präger (Preger) and Auguste (Gittel) née Löwenstein. Since 1850 he was married to the merchant's daughter Fanni, nee Rothschild (1812–1872) from Sulzbach. They had no offspring.

Life

After attending the Jewish elementary school and the Bruchsal high school (1834–1837), he studied in the yeshivot in Karlsruhe and Mannheim. From 1837 to 1839 he studied at the University of Heidelberg and became a rabbinate candidate in 1840. From 1840 he supported his father Elias Präger as a vicar in his work as a district rabbi in Bruchsal and took over the office after his death in 1847. After the death of his father, Moses Präger began to introduce prayers in German into the service, not only in Hebrew as before. The religious care of the Jews imprisoned in Bruchsal prison was also one of his tasks. To support them, he founded a released association for Jewish prisoners. In 1854 he became city rabbi for the Mannheim community , which was considered to be the most progressive in Baden. Präger published prayer and edification writings as well as sermon texts in the 1850s. He published a new Israelite prayer book in 1855, which was rejected by conservative Jewish circles.

Moses Präger died in 1861 and was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Mannheim .

Works

• Prayer and edification book for Israelites. first part: public devotion. Brilon 1851.
• Moses Präger, experiences from his official work in penal institutions. In: The Israelite People's Teacher: A monthly publication of edifying and instructive content. No. 2 (1852), pp. 177ff.
• Sermon, the purpose of the synagogue, given at the inauguration of the new synagogue in Mannheim. 1855.
• Prayer book for the Israelite community in Mannheim. 1855.
• Devotional book for Israelites. Brilon 1856.
• The disobedient son. Sermon, 1857.
• Sabbath celebration. A collection of sermons to strengthen the religious mind. Strasbourg 1859.
• Israelite prayer book for public and domestic devotion. Edited posthumously by Bernhard Friedmann.

Web links

• Jewish cemetery Mannheim (City of Mannheim) near Alemannia Judaica

literature

• Benjamin Willstätter: Moses Präger , in: Badische Biographien , Vol. II, Heidelberg 1875, pp. 144–145.
• Jürgen Stude: History of the Jews in Bruchsal . Publications on the history of the city of Bruchsal, vol. 23, regional culture publisher, Ubstadt-Weiher 2007, ISBN 978-3-89735-441-8 , pp. 88–90 and 429.
• Jürgen Stude: Moses Präger (1817–1861) - a reform rabbi from Baden . In: Jürgen Stude / Bernd Rottenecker / Dieter Petri: Jüdisches Leben in der Ortenau, Bühl: seitenweise 2017, ISBN 978-3-943874-25-9 , pp. 196–197.
• Entry PRÄGER, 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, ISBN 3-598-24871-7 , p. 724.
• Carsten Wilke: Moses Präger. In: Jüdisches Leben in Baden 1809 to 2009. 200 years Oberrat der Israeliten Baden , Ostfildern 2009, ISBN 978-3-7995-0827-8 , pp. 226–227.