Nathan Nice

Nathan Netter (born January 5, 1866 in Niedernai , † December 15, 1959 in Metz ) was a Franco-German rabbi and politician.

Life

Nathan Netter, son of a cattle dealer, was a student of Isidor Weill in Colmar ; he passed his exam in 1891 before the Consistoire Strasbourg . In 1891 he received his doctorate in Strasbourg.

Netter was married to France Weill.

He was a rabbi in Buchsweiler from 1891 to 1898 and then in Saargemünd . From 1900 to 1954 he was Chief Rabbi of the Consistory of Lorraine in Metz.

After Adolf Ury's death , he was elected a member of the First Chamber of the Landtag of the Reichsland Alsace-Lorraine in 1915 ; he was a member of this until 1918.

He was a participant in the Misrachi and B'nai B'rith conferences.

In 1939, during the Seat War , the French government had civilians evacuated Metz; Netter went to Sanary-sur-Mer . From 1942 to 1944 he lived in Roanne ; then he fled to Saint-Firmin (Hautes-Alpes) .

In 1954 he retired at an advanced age.

Works

Netter wrote some writings in German and later in French (selection):

• The story of Noah and the flood. A Translation and Critical Treatment of the Rabbah Midrash: Genes. Par. 25.2; 26.1; 26.3 and Par. 29 - 36. Dissertation, Strasbourg 1891 ( digitized in the Freimann Collection ).
• Two New Year sermons. Held in the Consistorial Synagogue at Metz; the 14th and September 15, 1901. 1901.
• Schiller and Judaism. Report of the Grand Lodge for Germany. In: Report of the Grand Lodge for Germany. Organ of the 8th District UOBB 14th year, No. 5, Berlin 1905, pp. 63-66 ( digitized in compact memory ).
• The debt crisis of the Jewish community of Metz (1791 to 1854). In: Monthly for the history and science of Judaism. Volume 57, Issue 5, 1913, pp. 591–619 ( digitized version ), and Volume 58, Issue 1, 1914, p. 63–80 ( digitized version ).
• History of the Israelite Hospice in Metz. 1911.
• A hike through Jewish antiquity. 1912.
• History of the Talmud. Metz 1916 ( digitized in the Freimann collection ).
• A travers l 'Antiquité Juive. Les Presses Universitaires de France, Paris 1924; second edition 1925 ( digitized ).
• Cent ans d'histoire d'une Sociéte de Charité messine (la Jeunesse israélite de Metz) 1838–1938. 1938.,
• Vingt siècles d'histoire d'une communauté juive. 1938.
• La patrie égarée et la patrie renaissante. 1947.
• Souvenirs et impressions de voyage au Maroc a travers l'Espagne. 1952.
• Langage des siècles. Metz 1958.

Honors

In 1910 Netter was awarded the Order of the Red Eagle, 4th class . In 1922 he received the Médaille d'or du Souvenir français . In 1931 he became a knight and in 1946 an officer of the Legion of Honor .

literature

• Jewish Liberal Newspaper. Volume 4, No. 22, July 11, 1924, Breslau / Berlin 1924, p. 5.
• Max Gugenheim: Les Israélites de Bouxwiller. In: Société d'histoire et d'archéologie de Saverne et environs. 1955, no. 3/4, pp. 25-27.
• Ernest Hamburger : Jews in Public Life in Germany: Members of the Government, Officials and Parliamentarians in the Monarchical Period 1848–1918 , 1968, ISBN 9783168292920 , p. 392, online .
• Jean-Philippe Chaumont, Monique Lévy (eds.): Dictionnaire biographique des rabbins et autres ministres du culte israélite. France et Algérie du Grand Sanhédrin (1807) à la loi de Séparation (1905). Paris 2007, pp. 581-583.
• Entry NETTER, Nathan, Dr. In: Michael Brocke and Julius Carlebach (editors), edited by Katrin Nele Jansen with the assistance of Jörg H. Fehrs and Valentina Wiedner: Biographisches Handbuch der Rabbis. Part 2: The rabbis in the German Empire, 1871–1945. K G Saur, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-5982487-4-0 , p. 449 f.

Web links

• Les Grands Rabbins de Metz et de la Moselle de 1850 à nos jours.
• Nathan NICE. Grand Rabbin de Metz et de la Moselle.

Footnotes

1. ↑ according to § 6 paragraph II of the Alsace-Lorraine constitution of May 31, 1911
2. ↑ http://judaisme.sdv.fr : Nathan NETTER
3. ↑ awarded by the association Le Souvenir français, founded in 1887