Philipp Bloch

Philipp Bloch, bookplate

Graves of Philipp Bloch and his wife

Philipp Bloch (born May 30, 1841 in Tworog , Province of Silesia ; died February 3, 1923 in Berlin ) was a German historian and reform rabbi .

Live and act

After attending school in Bytom , he attended the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau from 1857 to 1867 . Bloch passed his Abitur as an external student at the reformed Friedrichsgymnasium in Breslau. In 1860 he was enrolled at the University of Wroclaw . On July 20, 1865 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the concept of God under Aristotle . His dissertation was called De notione Dei; qualis e totius systematis connexu Aristoteli enascatur . From 1868 to 1871 he ran an Israelite community school in Munich. In Munich he passed the teacher examination in 1870. Throughout his life he was involved in the field of Jewish educational policy and for the welfare of Jewish orphans. In 1871 he was appointed rabbi of the liberal Brethren in Posen , where he worked until 1920.

He was especially recognized as a preacher.

In 1911 he was appointed professor on the occasion of his 70th birthday. In 1920 he moved to Berlin. He was married to Luise Feust (1849-1924).

Bloch was a leading member of the Association of Liberal Rabbis in Germany . He worked in several scientific associations. In 1903 he was one of the founding members of the Society for the Advancement of the Science of Judaism . In 1905 he was a co-founder of the complete archive of German Jews in Berlin.

In his own scientific writings Bloch dealt primarily with religious-philosophical topics and the Kabbalah . He also wrote works on Jewish history in Poland and especially in Poznan.

He was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Berlin-Weißensee .

Works

Sermon delivered at the end of the year 5632 (1872) and at the same time as the inauguration of the newly introduced organ in the temple of the Brethren Congregation, JJ Heine, Posen 1872.
Prof. Rohling's counterfeiting in the Talmudic field , Posen 1876. ( digitized version )
The first cultural efforts of the Jewish community in Poznan under Prussian rule. In: Cheers for the seventieth birthday of Prof. Dr. H. Graetz, Breslau 1887, 194-217 ( digitized version ).
The general privileges of Polish Jews. Extended and improved special reprint from the magazine. of the Historical Society for the Province of Posen, vol. 6., Jolowicz, Posen 1892. ( digitized version )
History of the development of Kabbalah and the Jewish religious philosophy , Poppelauer, Berlin 1894 / Siegmund Mayer, Trier 1894. (Digital copies: [1] , [2] )
Heinrich Graetz : a picture of life and time , Posen 1904. (English translation: Heinrich Graetz: a memoir , The Jewish Publ. Soc. Of America, Philadelphia 1898, digitized )
Kabbalah at its peak and its masters , Alkalay, Preßburg 1905. ( digitized version )
Commemorative speech in honor of the perpetual chairman of the Society for the Advancement of the Science of Judaism, Prof. Dr. Martin Philippson. Held at the General Assembly in Berlin on December 27, 1916, Breslau: Favorke, 1917. ( digitized version )

literature

Article in: Michael Brocke , Julius Carlebach (Eds.): Die Rabbis im Deutschen Reich 1871-1945 , de Gruyter, Berlin 2009, 2035-2037.
Bloch, Philipp. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 3: Birk – Braun. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-598-22683-7 , pp. 176-180.

Web links

Estate materials (PDF file; 62 kB)

Individual evidence

↑ John F. Oppenheimer (Red.) And a .: Lexicon of Judaism. 2nd Edition. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh u. a. 1971, ISBN 3-570-05964-2 , Sp. 108.
↑ Entry: Bloch, Philipp, Prof. Dr. ; in: Michael Brocke , Julius Carlebach (ed.): The Rabbis in the German Empire 1871-1945 , Berlin 2009, pp. 86–88.
↑ Entry: Bloch, Philipp, Prof. Dr. ; in: Michael Brocke , Julius Carlebach (ed.): The Rabbis in the German Empire 1871-1945 , Berlin 2009, pp. 86–88.
^ The complete archive existed until 1939; its work is continued today by the Central Archives, founded in 1987 for research into the history of Jews in Germany .

personal data
SURNAME	Bloch, Philipp
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Blokh, Shraga Fibush
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German historian and reform rabbi
DATE OF BIRTH	May 30, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH	Tworóg (Silesia)
DATE OF DEATH	February 3, 1923
Place of death	Berlin

[1] John F. Oppenheimer (Red.) And a .: Lexicon of Judaism. 2nd Edition. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh u. a. 1971, ISBN 3-570-05964-2 , Sp. 108.

[2] Entry: Bloch, Philipp, Prof. Dr. ; in: Michael Brocke , Julius Carlebach (ed.): The Rabbis in the German Empire 1871-1945 , Berlin 2009, pp. 86–88.

[3] Entry: Bloch, Philipp, Prof. Dr. ; in: Michael Brocke , Julius Carlebach (ed.): The Rabbis in the German Empire 1871-1945 , Berlin 2009, pp. 86–88.

[4] The complete archive existed until 1939; its work is continued today by the Central Archives, founded in 1987 for research into the history of Jews in Germany .