Noah-Haium-Hirsch Berlin

Noah-Haium-Hirsch Berlin , also Heymann Hirsch Meyer , (born February 1734 in Fürth ; died March 5, 1802 in Altona ) was a German rabbi and author .

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Noah-Haium-Hirsch Berlin was the eldest son of Landparnes (head) Abraham Meyer Berlin and his wife Röschen, who was a granddaughter of the famous rabbi Samuel Sanvel Halberstadt . His father was a wealthy banker and purveyor of court coins, his mother a daughter of Feibelmann Emmerich from Frankfurt am Main.

Together with his brother Löb Berlin (1737-1814) Noah-Haium-Hirsch received private lessons from his father.

He married Ela, the daughter of Elias Bär Nathan from Schwabach, widow of the Karlsruhe senior councilor Levi.

In 1764 he took on an apprenticeship in his hometown and became sub-rabbi and dayan . Wolf Heidenheim was one of his students . In 1772 he became regional rabbi of the Principality of Bayreuth in Baiersdorf and in 1783 regional rabbi of Kurmainz . After an oral questioning by two state government officials, Elector Friedrich Karl confirmed him in office in February 1784 .

After Rafael ben Jekutiel Süsskind Kohen resigned as chief rabbi of the communities of Altona, Hamburg and Wandsbek, Berlin took over his office and died two years later.

Berlin was considered an intelligent dialectician and interpreter of the Talmud ( pilpulist ). He wrote numerous books and manuscripts, which are referred to in the upper third of his tombstone in the Altona Jewish cemetery . Jochanan Wittkower published an inscription of Berlin in his book Agudath Perdachim in Altona in 1880 , but this can probably be assigned to Kohen's predecessor in office. He also excelled as a patron.

Fonts (selection)

• 'Asē' Almuggīm. Sulzbach 1779.
• 'Asē' Arāzīm. Fuerth 1790.
• Ma'yan ha-Håchmāh. Published by Löb Berlin and Wolf Heidenheim , Rödelheim 1804, new edition 1860.
• Furthermore: Talmudic interpretations and approvals.

Literature (selection)

• Aron Walden: Shem ha-Gedōlīm hä-hādāš. Two volumes, Warsaw 1865; expanded new edition Warsaw 1879, p. 106.
• Samuel Joseph Fuenn: Kenäsäth Yiśrā'el. Zichrōnōth lethōledōth gedōle Yiśrā'el ha-nōda 'īm lešem bethōrathām, behåchmathām, bema'aśēhäm mīmōth ha-ge'ōnīm' ad ha-dōr ha-zäh [only Aleph to Yod]. Warsaw 1886–1890, p. 346.
• Max Grunwald : Hamburg's German Jews up to the dissolution of the triple congregation. Hamburg 1904, p. 85.
• Adolf Eckstein : Supplements to the history of the Jews in the former prince-bishopric of Bamberg. Bamberg 1899, p. 5.
• Leopold Löwenstein : On the history of the rabbis in Mainz. In: Yearbook of the Jewish-Literary Society in Frankfurt am Main. Volume 3, Frankfurt am Main 1905, pp. 233–235.
• Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography. Chernivtsi (Chernivtsi) 1925–1931, Volume IV, p. 537.
• Encyclopaedia Judaica . Judaism in the past and present. Ten volumes, Eschkol, Berlin 1929–1934, Volume IV, pp. 268f. (German).
• Paul Arnsberg : The Jewish communities in Hesse. Beginning, fall, new beginning. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1971, ISBN 3-7973-0213-4 , Volume II, p. 19.
• Encyclopaedia Judaica. 16 volumes, Keter Verlag, Jerusalem 1972, Volume IV, pp. 662f. (English).
• Isaak Dov Markon: Rabbi N. Ch. Zebi Berlin. For his 200th birthday. In: Hamburger Familienblatt. October 30, 1937.
• Raphael Halperin: 'Atlās' Es Hayyīm: Sedär ha-dōrōth lehachmē Yiśrā'el. Vol. IX: ('Aharōnīm IIIb) Ha-dōrōth ha-ri' šōnīm šäl te qūfath ha-h asīdūth, 5520-5610 (1760-1850). Jerusalem 1982, p. 118.
• Johann Maier : History of the Jewish Religion. Berlin 1971; revised edition Freiburg 1992, p. 481.
• Michael Studemund-Halévy : Berlin, Noah-Haium-Hirsch . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 6 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8353-1025-4 , p. 27-28 .
• Entry BERLIN, Noah-Haium-Hirsch. 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, p. 184 f.