Salomon Cohn

Salomon Cohn (born March 24, 1822 in Zülz , Upper Silesia ; died September 22, 1902 in Breslau ) was a German rabbi .

Life

Salomon Cohn was a son of the rabbi Salomon Kohn and grandson of the chief rabbi Meschullam Salomon Kohn from Fürth . He studied at the yeshivot of Chief Rabbi Avraham Shmuel Binjamin Sofer in Pressburg and of Chief Rabbi Jakob Ettlinger in Altona . He received his rabbinical diplomas in Berlin and Kempen as well as from Rawicz , Várpalota and Krotoschin . He then went to high schools in Vienna and Breslau. From October 1844 he studied Oriental Studies at the University of Breslau , moved in 1847 to the University of Marburg to Johann Gildemeister and was on 17 July 1847 by the University of Giessen Dr. phil is doing his doctorate. He was a member of the German Oriental Society .

In 1847 he became a rabbi in Opole in Upper Silesia . In the same year he married Regine, nee Ettlinger (1826–1919), the eldest daughter of Jakob Ettlinger.

In 1853 he was appointed provincial rabbi of the Dutch province of Limburg with his official seat in Maastricht .

In 1859 he succeeded Baruch Isaak Lipschütz as the regional rabbi of Mecklenburg-Schwerin in Schwerin .

From 1876 he worked at the Orthodox Tiergarten Synagogue in Berlin. From 1878 to 1894 he was a lecturer in theoretical and practical homiletics at the Rabbinical Seminar in Berlin . In 1894 he retired to Breslau, where he died in 1902.

His estate went to the Rabbinical Seminary in Berlin and is largely lost today.

Fonts

• De Targumo Jobi disquisitio. Addita est appendix in qua continentur nonnullae variae lectiones e codice MS a. 1238 sumptae. Phil. Dissertation, Giessen 1847.
• Church and State. In: Allgemeine Zeitung des Judenthums. An impartial organ for all Jewish interests. Edited by Dr. Ludwig Philippson , XII. Year, No. 31, Leipzig 1848, p. 441f ( digitized from Compact Memory ).
• God's threefold demand on Israel. Sermon delivered on the Sabbath of Father 'Equin in the great synagogue in Altona. In: The Faithful Guardian of Zion. Organ to safeguard the interests of Orthodox Judaism. Edited by Samuel Enoch, Altona 1849, pp. 257-264.
• The meaning of Judaism in the present. In: The Faithful Guardian of Zion. 1849, pp. 321f., 339-341, 361-363, 409-411; 1850, pp. 49-52.
• The liberation of Israel from Egypt, an instructive picture for our time. A Sabbath-Semoth sermon. In: The Faithful Guardian of Zion. 1850, pp. 17-21, 25-27.
• The prayer of the Jews for the restoration of the Davidic Throne and the love of the Jews for their homeland. In: The Faithful Guardian of Zion. 1851, p. 49f; 1852, pp. 7f, 9f, 13f, 25, 29f.
• The negative criticism of positive Judaism. In: The Faithful Guardian of Zion. 1851, pp. 49f .; 1852, pp. 7f, 9f, 13f, 25, 29f.
• Life and teaching. A sermon sketch for P. 'Aharē mōth qedōšīm. In: The Faithful Guardian of Zion. 1852, pp. 41-43, 46f.
• Judaism - a whole. In: The Faithful Guardian of Zion. 1852, pp. 89f.
• For our poor brothers in the Holy Land. A word to our rich brothers. In: The Faithful Guardian of Zion. 1852, pp. 91f.
• The memory of the Maccabees, a valiant defense against the aberrations of modern times. A sketch of the sermon on Sabbath Hanukkah. In: The Faithful Guardian of Zion. 1852, pp. 101-103; 1853, p. 1f.
• The struggle of Judaism against its opponents in the present. In: The faithful Zion Guardian .. 1853, p. 53f.
• The priest's blessing. Excerpt from the farewell speech given on his departure to Mastricht as Chief Rabbi of the Limburg Province in Holland. In: The Faithful Guardian of Zion. 1853, pp. 62f, 65-67, 69-71.
• The priesthood in Israel. Inaugural sermon held on May 27, 1853 in the main synagogue in Maastricht when he was installed as chief rabbi in the Duchy of Limburg. Sittard 1853.
• Obituary. (In Israel German) in: The faithful Zion Guardian. 1853, p. 67.
• The country to be scouted. A Parashath Shelah sermon. In: The Faithful Guardian of Zion. 1853, pp. 73f., 77-79.
• Scripture and tradition. In: The Faithful Guardian of Zion. 1853, pp. 93-95, 101f .; 1854, pp. 1f., 9f., 13f.
• A few comments on the question: May the Y [ōm] t [ōv] šenī be abolished? In: The Faithful Guardian of Zion. 1854, p. 37f.
• Some commandments of salvation. Scripture and its explanation. In: The Faithful Guardian of Zion. 1854, pp. 89-91, 93-95, 97ff.
• The naming of the Essenes. In: Monthly for the history and science of Judaism. 7, Dresden, Breslau, Berlin 1858, pp. 270f.
• Two letters from Maimonides' correspondence. In: Monthly for the history and science of Judaism. 14, Dresden, Breslau, Berlin 1865, pp. 25-30, 69-74.
• Consecrated sermon on the day of the opening of the restored synagogue at Schwerin. Schwerin 1866.
• Life and teaching. In: Jewish press. Conservative weekly. Central organ of the Misrachi. Berlin 1878, pp. 14f., 25f., 49f., 57f.
• Modern rabbinism and Judaism. In: Jewish press. Conservative weekly. Central organ of the Misrachi. Berlin 1879, p. 233f.
• Speech at the commemoration of Sr. Majesty of the most blessed Emperor Friedrich III. 1888.

literature

• Leopold Löwenstein : On the history of the Jews in Fürth, first part: The rabbinate. In: Yearbook of the Jewish-Literary Society in Frankfurt am Main. Volume 3, Frankfurt am Main 1905, p. 207.
• Encyclopaedia Judaica. Judaism in the past and present. Volume 5 . Eschkol, Berlin 1930.
• Peter Maser and Adelheid Weiser: Jews in Oberschlesien, Part I: Historical overview, Jewish communities (I.) Berlin 1992, p. 136.
• Maciej Borkowski: By nie przepadali w mroku ... Opolscy Żydzi 1812-1938. In: Opolski rocznik muzealny 12 (1998), pp. 12-14.
• Entry COHN, Salomon, Dr. 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. 239 f.
• Michael Buddrus , Sigrid Fritzlar: Jews in Mecklenburg. 1845 - 1945. Paths and fates. A memorial book. Volume 1. Ed .: Institute for Contemporary History Munich - Berlin / State Center for Civic Education Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Schwerin 2019, ISBN 978-3-9816439-9-2 , p. 174.

Web links

• Literature in the bibliography portal LitDok East Central Europe
• Literature about Salomon Cohn in the state bibliography MV
• Works by Salomon Cohn in the state bibliography MV
• State Rabbi Dr. Salomon Cohn on Die Juden in Mecklenburg , accessed February 5, 2016

Individual evidence

1. ↑ steinheim-institut.de
2. ↑ Salomon Cohn in the Provenance Wiki, accessed on October 18, 2016