Salomon Hanau

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Salomon ben Jehuda Leib Cohen Hanau (born 1687 presumably in Hanau ; died September 1 or 4, 1746  in  Hanover ) was a German writer , grammarian and Talmudist .

Life

Hanau's last name suggests the family's origins from Hanau. In 1708, when he was 21, he published Binyan Schelomoh , a grammar of the Hebrew language, in Frankfurt am Main . While Hanau's criticism of older Hebrew grammarians and exegetes with the approval of numerous rabbis was printed, the Frankfurt rabbinate threatened to burn the script. It is controversial whether Hanau revoked his defamatory and disparaging polemics, but as a result of increasing isolation he moved to Hamburg , where he taught for seventeen years. In Hamburg, Hanau's erudition led to unrest again. Reactions to his writings on prayer books published by Elijah and Azriel Vilna forced him to flee the city.

Even years later, Hanau's publications were controversial. The translation of Jewish prayers into contemporary language, which form the program of the Scha'are Tefillah script , inspired many pamphlets. In the foreword by Luach Eres , Jacob Emden even accused Hanau of having forged his rabbinical license to practice medicine . After staying in Hamburg and Amsterdam , Hanau also had to emigrate from Fürth . A dispute with Seligman Grieshaber , who had already questioned Hanau's works in two pamphlets, led Hanau to Berlin , which he had to leave after a short time. After traveling through Germany and Italy , Hanau died in Hanover .

Hanau's son Simson Salomo worked as a printer in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe . In 1727 he printed a version of the Ma'ass book .

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Hanau was a contentious scholar of the early Enlightenment . He published seven works on Hebrew grammar, which were reprinted several times. Although Selma Stern describes Hanau as one of the most important Jewish personalities and scholars of early modern Prussia , he has largely been forgotten.

In addition to Ascher Worms , Isaac Wetzler and Israel Samosc , who mainly moved in the Jewish " internal discourse " of the Enlightenment with Hebrew or Yiddish writings, Hanau is considered to be the protagonist of the early Haskala .

Selection of works

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Joseph Jacobs, Isaac Broydé: Hanau, Solomon Ben Judah. In: The Jewish Encyclopedia. Retrieved September 10, 2017 .
  2. ^ A b Raphael Kirchheim: ADB: Hanau, Salomon Jehuda Leib Cohen. In: General German Bibliography. Jakob Burckhardt, accessed on September 10, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Jakob Meitlis: The Ma'assebuch. Its origin and history of the sources. At the same time an introduction to the old Yiddish Agada. Georg Olms Verlag, Berlin, Hildesheim 1987, ISBN 3-487-07833-3 .
  4. ↑ Selma Stern: The time of Friedrich Wilhelm I. In: The Prussian State and the Jews . tape 2.1 . Mohr, Tübingen 1962, p. 167 .
  5. ↑ Christoph Schulte: On the debate about the beginnings of the Jewish Enlightenment . In: Journal of Religious and Intellectual History . tape 54 , no. 2 , 2002, p. 122-137 .
personal data
SURNAME Hanau, Salomon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hanau, Salomon ben Jehuda Leib Cohen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, grammarian and Talmudist
DATE OF BIRTH around 1687
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanau
DATE OF DEATH September 1, 1746 or September 4, 1746
Place of death Hanover