Pinchas Kohn

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Pinchas Kohn , pseudonym Sanon Kopi (born February 27, 1867 in Kleinerdlingen , Kingdom of Bavaria ; died July 2, 1941 in Jerusalem ) was the last rabbi in Ansbach . He came from the rabbi family Kohn-Rappoport, who lived in southern Germany. He was also director of World Agudath Israel .

Life

Pinchas Kohn was born the son of Rabbi Marx Michael Kohn (1826–1888). He received private tuition in elementary and high school subjects as well as Talmudic lessons from his father and his maternal grandfather, Rabbi David Weiskopf (1798–1882). From 1880 to 1886 he attended the secondary school in Halberstadt . He learned in the yeshiva of Rabbi Selig Auerbach and in the Klaus rabbis Isaac Long, Gerson Jehoshaphat Joseph Nobel and Salomon Cohn. In 1886 he graduated from high school and went to the Hildesheimer Rabbinical Seminar in Berlin . In 1887 he matriculated at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in classical philology and philosophy. In 1887/88 he studied Sanskrit, comparative writing research and pedagogy at the University of Vienna . He conducted rabbinical studies with Josef Baer-Cohn. After the death of his father he returned to Berlin and studied again at the university and at the rabbinical seminary. He also ran a religious school in Spandau near Berlin.

In 1890 Kohn became a rabbi and teacher in Mannheim . In 1893 he became a rabbi in Ansbach. On February 22, 1893 he received his doctorate in Bern in the field of ancient Indian philosophy with magna cum laude on the subject Īçvaraproktam amanaska-yogavivaranam. A contribution to the knowledge of the yoga philosophy . From 1895 to 1915 he was the district rabbi in Ansbach.

Kohn was a member of the Free Conference of Bavarian Rabbis. In 1897 he was a founding member of the Association of Traditionally Law-Abiding Rabbis in Germany and a founding member and cashier of the Pension and Relict Fund of Bavarian Rabbis. He was a co-founder of the Agudas Yisroel .

He adored Esriel and Hirsch Hildesheimer and Samson Raphael Hirsch . From 1910 he edited the Jewish newspaper together with Ernest Weill , and from 1913/14 to 1920 the Jüdische Monatshefte , which he edited together with Salomon Breuer . He was a lover of Kabbalah and provided the Hasidim with a political organization. He also founded a rabbis association and published the Yiddish daily newspaper Doss Yiddische Vort .

At a rabbinical meeting in Warsaw in 1916, Pinchas Kohn, together with Emanuel Carlebach (1874–1927), was used as an intermediary between the German military and Polish rabbis to make the population plausible about hygienic measures against increasing typhus infections in the Generalgouvernement. Together with the chief medical officer, Gottfried Frey, Kohn designed large posters with Yiddish explanatory texts on the lice that transmit typhus. Shaves and baths would only destroy the louse, but are not an attack on the core content of the Jewish religion. Nevertheless, it could not be prevented that the hygiene measures carried out lead to an increase in anti-Semitism.

From 1918 to 1938 he headed the central office of Agudas Jisroel in Vienna. In 1939 he was able to flee to Palestine via Basel and London . His funeral in Palestine was directed by Rabbis Yitzchok Zev Soloveitchik and Abraham Mordechai Alter .

Pinchas Kohn was married to Rosalie, nee Moses. His daughter Franziska married Josef Seebacher from Gunzenhausen in 1920. The family emigrated to Palestine in 1934/1935.

Publications (selection)

  • Sanon Kopi (pseudonym): Joël Gern: The career of a Jewish man. Roman, 1912.
  • “Repentance.” On the meaning of Judaism. A scrapbook in honor of Nathan Birnbaum in 1925.
  • Sanon Kopi (pseudonym): Kosbi Salonaë. Novel 1932.

literature

  • Matthias Morgenstern : From Frankfurt to Jerusalem. Isaac Breuer and the story of the “exit dispute” in German-Jewish orthodoxy. JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Tübingen 1995, pages 3, 65, 67, 85, 214, 217, 221.
  • Esriel Hildesheimer, Mordechai Eliav: The Berlin Rabbinical Seminar 1873-1938. Berlin 2008, ISBN 9783938485460 , p. 163.
  • Tobias Grill: The west in the east. German bourgeoisie and Jewish educational reform in Eastern Europe (1783–1939). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2013, pages 245, 300, 308, 357.
  • Entry KOHN, Pinchas, 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 , No. 2305, p. 341 ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.archive.org/details/jdischemonatsh3v4fran
  2. ^ Matthias Morgenstern: From Frankfurt to Jerusalem. Isaac Breuer and the history of the “exit dispute” in German-Jewish orthodoxy , JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Tübingen 1995, p. 3.
  3. ^ Wolfgang U. Eckart : Medicine and War. Germany 1914–1924 , Ferdinand Schöningh Verlag Paderborn 2014, p. 185 on Emanuel Carlebach , Pinchas Kohn and forced sanitation in the Generalgouvernement and Ober-Ost, ISBN 978-3-506-75677-0 .
  4. ↑ Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 201.
  5. ↑ State Archive Basel-Stadt Signature: PD-REG 3a 31547 ( [1] )
personal data
SURNAME Kohn, pinchas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rabbi in Ansbach and the district rabbinate Wallerstein
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Little things
DATE OF DEATH July 2, 1941
Place of death Jerusalem