Samuel Levi Egers

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Samuel Levi Egers , also Eger or Perez Sabel Egers , bourgeois Samuel Lewin Meyer (born June 11, 1769 in Halberstadt ; died December 3, 1842 in Braunschweig ) was a German rabbi and from 1827 to 1842 the regional rabbi of the Duchy of Braunschweig .

Life

Egers came from a well-known Rabbi family from Halberstadt. His father and teacher Akiba Eger III. (born in Breslau, died on October 4, 1823 in Halberstadt) was a rabbi in Halberstadt from 1784 to 1823. Egers initially worked in business. He then became his father's assessor and teacher at the yeshiva . In 1799 he went to Braunschweig.

Brunswick State Rabbi

At the suggestion of the reformer Israel Jacobson , Egers was appointed rabbi of the city, canton and syndicate of Braunschweig in 1809 by the Westphalian Consistory. He resisted Jacobson's attempt to introduce German as the language of prayer. He applied in Hamburg in 1820. In 1827 he was appointed regional rabbi for the Duchy of Braunschweig. The state rabbinate was introduced during the Napoleonic occupation and was carried out by the rabbi of the city of Braunschweig. His duties included the supervision of the prayer leaders , schools and slaughterers of the Jewish communities in the duchy. In particular, the previously independent Samson School in Wolfenbüttel and the Jacobson School in Seesen initially did not accept his control function. The levy of denominational taxes to be paid by the rural communities also met with resistance. Egers hesitantly followed Jacobson's reforms by preaching in German, introducing confirmation in 1831 and the synagogue order in 1832. At the end of his life, however, he regretted these innovations. In 1828 he set up an elementary school in Braunschweig. He went blind in 1836, but still held office until shortly before his death. His successor as regional rabbi was his student Levi Herzfeld .

family

Gravestone of Samuel Levi Egers in the old Jewish cemetery on Hamburger Strasse in Braunschweig

Egers was married three times and outlived his three wives. These were Friederike (Fradka, Fradchen, 1774–1811), daughter of the court factor Salomon Michael David in Hanover; since 1811 Rahel (1787–1815), daughter of the Hanoverian rabbi Behrend Josua and widow of Isaac Eger; and since 1815 Esperanza-Sprinze (Sprinza), née Abraham, from Berlin (died 1839). The graves of Egers and his first two wives are in the Old Jewish Cemetery on Hamburger Strasse in Braunschweig.

Fonts

  • Funeral speech about the most painful death for us of the most blessed, most illustrious Duke Friedrich Wilhelm. 1815.
  • Homily, printed in the appendix to the Hiddūšē ha-RaN of the Nissim of Gerona, Bābā 'Mesī'ā'. Brzeg Dolny (Dyhernfurth) 1822.
  • Speech to celebrate the inauguration of our most noble Prince and Lord, Mr. Carl Friedrich August Wilhelm Duke of Braunschweig and Lüneburg. 1823.
  • 'Atäräth Pāz [Ps 21,4] to Bēsāh. Altona 1823, Jerusalem 1969.
  • Rīmmōn Päräs [Num 33,19] to Ketūbbōth. Altona 1823, Jerusalem 1969.
  • Derāšāh leŠabbāth Mišpātīm. Edited by Samuel Bloch, Hanover 1829.
  • Derāšāh leŠabbāth Hāzōn. Appeal for donations for the earthquake victims in Tiberias and Safed, Hanover 1837.
  • Derāšāh lešabbāth Devārīm. Edited by Samuel Bloch, Hanover 1837.
  • Halachic correspondence with Ezekiel Landau , Akiba Eger and Moses Sofer .
  • Six approvals, Braunschweig 1822–1832.

literature

  • Allgemeine Zeitung des Judenthums: an impartial organ for all Jewish interests in politics, religion, literature, history, linguistics and fiction, edited by Dr. Ludwig Philippson , 2nd year, no. 82, Leipzig 1838, p. 331. ( Digital copy from Compact Memory ).
  • The Orient: Reports, Studies, and Reviews for Jewish History and Literature. Edited by Julius Fürst , Leipzig 1842, p. 260.
  • General newspaper of Judaism. VI. Year, No. 28, p. 412 ( digital version with Compact Memory ), No. 31, p. 460f. ( Digital version with compact memory ).
  • Obituary by Herzfeld in the Allgemeine Zeitung des Judenthums. VI. Year, No. 52, pp. 762–764 ( digital version with compact memory ).
  • Benjamin Hirsch Auerbach: History of the Israelite community Halberstadt. Halberstadt 1866, p. 103.
  • Heinrich Graetz : History of the Jews from the oldest times to the present. Vol. XI, Leipzig 1869; 3rd edition edit. by Marcus Brann , Leipzig undated [1893], p. 386.
  • Meyer Kayserling (ed.): Library of Jewish pulpit speakers. A chronological collection of the sermons, biographies, and characteristics of the finest Jewish preachers. Volume I, Julius Springer, Berlin 1870, p. 413.
  • Encyclopaedia Judaica . Judaism in the past and present. Volume VI, Berlin 1929-1934, p. 217.
  • Michael A. Meyer : Response to Modernity. A History of the Reform Movement in Judaism. New York and Oxford 1988; New edition Detroit 1995, pp. 38f., 43, 102f.
  • Reinhard Bein : Eternal House - Jewish cemeteries in the city and country of Braunschweig . Döringdruck, Braunschweig 2004, ISBN 3-925268-24-3 .
  • Ralf Busch : The Brunswick regional rabbi Samuel Levi Eger (1769–1842). Excerpts from Walter Meyer's family history Eger. In: Kleine Schriften , No. 20, published by the Braunschweig City Archives and the Braunschweig City Library , Braunschweig 1991.
  • Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Günter Scheel (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon . 19th and 20th centuries. Hahn, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 154.
  • Andreas Brämer : Rabbi and board member. On the history of the Jewish community in Germany and Austria 1808-1871. Vienna 1999, pp. 23, 89, 166f.
  • Entry EGERS, Sabel. In: 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. 266 f.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon. 19th and 20th centuries , Hannover 1996, p. 154
  2. ↑ Reinhard Bein : Eternal House Jewish cemeteries in the city and country of Braunschweig. Braunschweig 2004, p. 161.
  3. ↑ Reinhard Bein: Eternal House Jewish Cemeteries in the City and Country of Braunschweig , Braunschweig 2004, p. 46
personal data
SURNAME Egers, Samuel Levi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eger, Samuel Levi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rabbi
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1769
PLACE OF BIRTH Halberstadt
DATE OF DEATH December 3, 1842
Place of death Braunschweig