Salomon Friedländer

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Salomon Friedländer (born October 14, 1824 or October 23, 1825 in Brilon , † August 22, 1860 in Chicago ) was a representative of German Reform Judaism .

Life

He was the son of the merchant and head of the rural Jews in the Duchy of Westphalia and grandson of the regional rabbi Joseph Abraham Friedländer . His brothers included the lawyer Alexander Friedländer and the publisher Moritz Friedländer .

He attended the Jewish school in Brilon before moving to the local grammar school in 1835 . Then he also attended high schools in Coesfeld and Trier . In Trier he also studied with the local rabbi . From 1843 he studied in Bonn and a year later in Heidelberg . There he received his doctorate in 1846 with the work Commentatio de duplice Psalmi XVIII exemplo .

After that he was a preacher in Brilon for a short time before he became the second preacher of the Jewish reform cooperative in Berlin . In 1846 he took part in a government conference in Munster which was supposed to discuss the future position of the Jews in Westphalia. From 1847 he was a preacher in the reform community in Münster . From 1848 he also taught there at the Mark Haindorfschen teachers' seminar . Like his grandfather, he came into conflict with the Orthodox rabbi Abraham Sutro . Friedländer represented views that differed from orthodoxy, in which he wanted to limit the theological reshaping of the Jewish teaching post. He also wanted to limit the importance of teaching Hebrew . The representatives of Orthodoxy disturbed his sermons on various occasions. Because a number of communities threatened to stop their payments in favor of the teacher training college, Friedländer was dismissed in 1851.

He then turned to medicine and received his doctorate in medicine. med. In 1855 he emigrated to the USA. He was a teacher and preacher in Chicago.

Some of his sermons have been published. He wrote various writings on current developments in Judaism but also an unfinished history of the Israelite people. Three volumes of this have been published. He also wrote an anniversary publication for the Mark Haindorf teachers' seminar with a biography of Alexander Haindorf .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Grabe: A Jewish newspaper publisher in the Catholic Sauerland. Moritz Friedländer (1822–1911) and the Sauerland Anzeiger. In: Südwestfalen-Archiv 3/2003, p. 198
  2. ↑ Andreas Brämer: Performance and consideration. On the history of Jewish religious and elementary teachers in Prussia 1823/24 to 1872. Göttingen 2006, p. 199

Fonts (selection)

  • The association for Westphalia and the Rhine Province for the education of elementary teachers and the promotion of crafts and arts among the Jews in Münster. Historical memorandum for the celebration of the five and twenty years of existence of the institute on Wednesday, August 21, 1850, along with a biography of the founder and conductor , Brilon 1850 digitized
  • History of the Israelite People. Three volumes. Leipzig 1847 Partial digitization
  • My relationship with the reform cooperative and my departure from Berlin. Leipzig 1847 digitized

literature

  • Biographical handbook of the rabbis. Part 1: Rabbis during the emancipation period in the German, Bohemian and Greater Poland countries 1781–1871. Munich 2004, pp. 346–347.

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personal data
SURNAME Friedländer, Salomon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Jewish preacher and author
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1824 or October 23, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH Brilon
DATE OF DEATH August 22, 1860
Place of death Chicago