Salomon Kohn (rabbi)

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Meschullam Salomon Kohn (born 1739 in Rawitsch , Province of Posen ; died on December 17, 1819 in Fürth , Middle Franconia ) was an Orthodox Chief Rabbi in Fürth.

Life

He was the son of Salman Kohn and his second wife Channa . As a three-year-old orphan , he was “appointed to the Torah” by his mother .

Kohn was initially a rabbi of several Jewish communities in Poland . From 1789 until his death (1819) he was chief rabbi and chairman of the rabbinical court in Fürth. He was quite important in his day; his advice and interpretation of the Talmud and Torah were valued among the Jews of Europe. The importance of his person is clear from the depiction of his bust on a porcelain pipe bowl from 1820. He was also the head of a well-known yeshiva well into old age . His students included u. a. the future Rabbi Wolf Hamburgwho was also his successor as the last head of this Talmud and Torah school.

Gravestone of the chief rabbi Salomon Kohn

As an advocate of Orthodox Judaism, Kohn was opposed to any change or even to reform Judaism . With his death there was a turning point in the Fürth community, because he was followed as the first liberal rabbi by his own pupil Isaak Loewi (1801–1873).

He had been married to Debora (?? - 1844) since 1778 , who after Kohn's death received a pension of 100 guilders and free accommodation from the Jewish community in Fürth, or a further 25 guilders instead. The couple had three sons and two daughters.

His grave in the old Jewish cemetery in Fürth survived the desecration by the Nazis and is still preserved today.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carsten Wilke: Biographisches Handbuch der Rabbis , Volume 2, Page 541, Verlag Saur, 2004, ISBN 3598248717 or ISBN 9783598248719 ( excerpt )
  2. ^ Leopold Löwenstein: On the history of the Jews in Fürth , page 203f., Verlag Olms, 1974, ISBN 3487053152 or ISBN 9783487053158 ( excerpt )
personal data
SURNAME Kohn, Solomon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kohn, Meschullam Salomon (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chief Rabbi in Fürth
DATE OF BIRTH 1739
PLACE OF BIRTH Rawitsch , Poznan Province
DATE OF DEATH December 17, 1819
Place of death Fürth , Middle Franconia