Solomon Judah Rapoport
Solomon Juda Rapoport ( Salomo Juda Löb Rapoport , abbr.SchJR ; born June 1, 1790 in Lemberg ; died October 16, 1867 in Prague ) was a Jewish scholar, enlightener and one of the founders of the science of Judaism . Most of his work appeared scattered in journals, monthly sheets, yearbooks, scientific compilations etc.
life and work
Solomon Juda Rapoport was the son of Chajim Rapoport and Zirl Etel. The father was a Talmudic scholar and head of a yeshiva .
Until 1832 Rapoport was a leaseholder of the kosher meat tax and a private scholar in Lemberg. From 1837 to 1840 he was a rabbi in Tarnopol . On August 12, 1840 - after an imperial exemption from academic studies - he became "First Senior Lawyer" in Prague. In 1860 he received the title of Chief Rabbi in Prague.
Rapoport applied the historical-critical method to the Talmudic- Rabbinical literature for the first time and delivered fundamental works and the like. a. on Saadja and Haj Gaon , Eleasar Kalir and Nathan ben Jechiel (the biographies appeared in the yearbooks Bikkure ha'ittim 1828 ff.).
His main work, a classic real dictionary of the Talmud, Erech Millin (ערך מלין = "word treasure"), remained unfinished and did not get beyond the first volume (letter Alef, published 1852).
The letters from SJ Rapoport to SD Luzzatto from the period 1833–1860, which were published in 1885 f. in Przemysl under the title Iggerot SchIR .
It is also worth mentioning Rapoport's four-act drama Sche'erit jehuda (Vienna 1827), which received great attention in circles of the Jewish enlightenment.
The posthumous writings appeared in Cracow in 1869 under the title Nachlat jehuda .
Rapoport was married twice. His first marriage to the daughter of the rabbi Arje-Leib b. Joseph Hakohen in Stryi , Eastern Galicia, was divorced because of childlessness. His second wife, a daughter of Löw Meller, died in 1842.
His younger cousin Moritz Rappaport (1808–1880) was a doctor, journalist and writer in Lemberg.
Sources / literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Rapoport, L. Salomon . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 24th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1872, pp. 356–361 ( digitized version ).
- Adolf Brüll : Rapoport, Salomo Jehuda Löb . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 27, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, pp. 283-285.
- JH Weiss : Sichronotaj. Warsaw 1895.
- Simon Bernfeld : Dor chacham. Warsaw 1896.
- Simon Bernfeld: Toledot Schir. 1899.
- David Kaufmann : Collected Writings. 1908.
- Samuel Meisels : Solomon Juda Löb Rapoport. In: Georg Herlitz (Hrsg.): Jüdisches Lexikon . Vol. IV, 1, Berlin 1927.
- Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography. Vol. V, Orient Printing House, Chernivtsi 1931.
- John F. Oppenheimer (Red.) And a .: Lexicon of Judaism. 2nd Edition. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh u. a. 1971, ISBN 3-570-05964-2 .
- Ursula Ragacs: Rapoport, Solomon Juda body. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 151 ( digitized version ).
- Entry RAPOPORT, Salomon Leib. 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. 729, no. 1444.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rapoport, Solomon Judah |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rapoport, Solomon Juda Löb (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Jewish scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 1, 1790 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lviv |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 16, 1867 |
| Place of death | Prague |