Nehemiah Anton Nobel

Nehemia Anton Nobel (born November 8, 1871 in Nagyatád , Somogy County, Hungary , † January 24, 1922 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a rabbi , preacher and Jewish scholar.

Life

Nehemia Tzvi Anton , son of Rabbi Josef Nobel (1839-1917), was a conservative, modern Orthodox rabbi, famous pulpit speaker, Jewish scholar and at the same time a German patriot. He grew up in Halberstadt , studied in Berlin and Marburg and graduated with a doctorate.

He worked as a preacher first in Cologne , then in Leipzig and Hamburg . From 1910 (until 1922) he was a rabbi in Frankfurt / M., Where he later held a teaching position for Jewish religious studies and ethics at the university.

He was one of the first religious Zionists and, together with Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig, represented the cultural Zionism launched by Achad Haam . The historian Rachel Heuberger mentions his "attempt to create a nostalgic synthesis between historical Judaism and modern culture".

Individual evidence

1. ^ Conference reports AHF Munich 2001 ( Memento of February 19, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 60 kB)

Literature (selection)

• Gift for Rabbi Dr. Nobel on his 50th birthday , Frankfurt am Main 1921.
• Rachel Heuberger, Rabbi Nehemias Anton Nobel. The Jewish Renaissance in Frankfurt am Main , Frankfurt 2005, ISBN 3-7973-0926-0 .
• Jeannette Strauss Almstad / Matthias Wolfes :  Nehemia Anton Nobel. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 33, Bautz, Nordhausen 2012, ISBN 978-3-88309-690-2 , Sp. 904-948.
• Esriel Hildesheimer, Mordechai Eliav: Das Berliner Rabbinerseminar 1873-1938 , Berlin 2008, ISBN 9783938485460 , pp. 206-207

Web links

• Entry in the Magyar Zsido Lexicon
• Andreas Gotzmann:  Nobel, Nehemia Anton. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 302 ( digitized version ).