Samuel Adler (rabbi)

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Samuel Adler

Samuel Adler (born December 3, 1809 in Worms , † June 9, 1891 in New York ) was a German-American rabbi and protagonist of liberal Judaism .

Life

Samuel Adler was the son of Rabbi Isaak Adler († 1823) from Worms. He began his studies in 1831 at the University of Bonn and received his doctorate in philosophy in 1836 at the University of Gießen . From 1839 he was a religion teacher in the Jewish community of Worms , and from 1842 to 1857 he was rabbi of the neighboring community in Alzey . He was one of the protagonists of the liberal movement in German Judaism and, for example, advocated the use of the German language in church services and greater participation of women.

In 1857 he went as a rabbi to the Temple Emanu-El in New York, the leading Jewish reform community in the USA . Samuel Adler continued to hold the service preferably in German. Its library is largely preserved in the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati .

His son Felix became a philosopher; his daughter Sarah married the lawyer Julius Goldman (1852-1909), a son of Marcus Goldman , founder of Goldman Sachs , their daughter was the archaeologist Hetty Goldman .

Publications

  • Guide to Israelite Religious Education . Thalmessinger, Cahn and Benedicks, New York 1860.

literature

  • Otto Böcher : The old Jewish cemetery in Worms (= Rheinische Kunststätten 148). 7th edition. Neusser Verlag und Druckerei, Neuss 1992, ISBN 3-88094-711-2 , pp. 8-9.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ He is buried in the Worms Jewish cemetery, the Holy Sand . According to the old inventory, his tombstone bears the number 1083; Böcher p. 8.
  2. ^ Fritz Reuter : Warmaisa: 1000 years of Jews in Worms . 3. Edition. Self-published, Worms 2009. ISBN 978-3-8391-0201-5 , p. 161.
  3. ↑ Böcher, p. 8.
personal data
SURNAME Adler, Samuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American rabbi
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Worms
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 1891
Place of death new York