Salomon Breuer

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Shlomo Zalman Breuer , also Solomon Breuer or Salomon Breuer , (born June 27, 1850 in Pilisvörösvár , Kingdom of Hungary ; died July 17, 1926 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German-Hungarian rabbi .

Life

Salomon Breuer was born into a well-known German-Jewish merchant family. At the age of twelve he joined a yeshiva in the city of Nitra. He then went to Pressburg to study under the well-known Rabbi Samuel Benjamin Sofer . After this time he moved to the University of Mainz . During this time he became acquainted with Rabbi Marcus Lehmann , who was a recognized figure of Orthodox Judaism in Germany. In the neighboring Jewish community of Frankfurt he became a member of the Free Association . Breuer then founded the Association of Orthodox Rabbis in Germany . Some time later he also became a founding member of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish organization Agudath Israel World Organization . Breuer was an outspoken opponent of political Zionism . In 1890 he founded a yeshiva in Frankfurt.

Solomon Breuer was married to a daughter of the well-known Frankfurt rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch . From this marriage there were eight children. These descendants included the mathematician Samson Breuer and the philosopher Isaac Breuer . His children Raphael Breuer and Joseph Breuer became rabbis, as did Salomon Breuer.

literature

  • Salomon Breuer. Chochmo U'Mussar. Philipp Feldheim, Jerusalem 1996, ISBN 0-87306-753-3 .
  • Breuer, Solomon. In: Encyclopaedia Judaica , Volume 4, 1973, Col. 1366.
  • Breuer, Salomon. In: Biographisches Handbuch der Rabbis. Edited by Michael Brocke and Julius Carlebach , Part 2. The Rabbis in the German Empire 1871–1945. Edited by Katrin Nele Jansen, Volume 1, Munich 2009, pp. 105–108.
  • Dovid Landesman, David Kranzler: Rav Breuer: His Life and His Legacy. Feldheim Publishers, Jerusalem 1998, ISBN 1-58330-163-1 .

Fonts

  • Instruction and warning. Two volumes. booksnbagels.com, 1993.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ John F. Oppenheimer (Red.) And a .: Lexicon of Judaism. 2nd Edition. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh u. a. 1971, ISBN 3-570-05964-2 , col. 117.
  2. ^ Jewish educational institutions in Germany: Yeshiva Gedola, Frankfurt / Main , Zentralratdjuden.de, accessed on March 3, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Breuer, Salomon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Breuer, Shlomo Zalman; Breuer, Solomon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Hungarian rabbi
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Pilisvörösvár , Kingdom of Hungary
DATE OF DEATH July 17, 1926
Place of death Frankfurt am Main