Samuel Hard

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Samuel Hard

Samuel Mühsam (born May 22, 1837 in Landsberg OS , Province of Silesia , since 1945 Gorzów Śląski , Poland, † February 20, 1907 in Graz ) was a rabbi in Postoloprty (German Postelberg ), Znojmo ( Znaim ), Bzenec ( Bisenz ) and Graz .

Live and act

Samuel Mühsam attended high school in Opole, Upper Silesia, and studied philosophy in Wroclaw and Vienna, among others . He graduated from Leipzig in 1864. In Breslau he apparently attended the Jewish theological seminar and was trained as a rabbi there. During his stay in Vienna, Mühsam studied in the Jewish Lehrhaus ( Beth HaMidrasch ) founded by the rabbi and scholar Adolf Jellinek and preached in the Ottakring district.

In 1865 Mühsam became rabbi in Postoloprty, in 1870 rabbi in Znojmo, where he also taught French at the grammar school, and in 1872 rabbi in Bzenec, from where he left for Graz in 1877, where he finally held the position of community rabbi for 30 years until his death. Within the Jewish community there (common name: Israelitische Kultusgemeinde in Graz ) Mühsam campaigned for the construction of the (old) synagogue, founded a women's association there, was the patron of the "Humanitas" association and deputy president of the hospital and cemetery in nearby Gleichenberg ; He also founded an association to support the poor and was a sworn translator from Hebrew.

Works

Samuel Mühsam is the author of the following publications:

  • Jews and Judaism among Ancient Roman Writers , Prague 1864.
  • On the Eating and Drinking of the Old Hebrews , Vienna 1866.
  • On the magic of the elderly , Prague 1867.
  • The fire in the Bible and Talmud , Vienna 1869.
  • Selected Sermons , ed. and commented by Luka Girardi (Vice President of the Association for Holocaust Remembrance and Promotion of Tolerance). Leykam Buchverlag, Graz 2014, ISBN 9783701179480 .

Samuel Mühsam also published in numerous Jewish and non-Jewish magazines.

The Mühsam family from Landsberg OS - Trivia

Samuel Mühsam came from the Landsberg family branch in Upper Silesia. His parents were Moritz Mühsam and Charlotte Mühsam, geb. Schweitzer. His younger brother Siegfried had several children, including his son Erich ; this well-known anarchist, writer and poet, murdered by the Nazis, was thus the rabbi's nephew.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Mühsam, Samuel , short curriculum vitae in: Jewish Encyclopedia (1906), online at: jewishencyclopedia.com ...
  2. ↑ a b c Rabbi Dr. Samuel Mühsam , portal of the Jewish community in Graz, online at: juedischegemeinde-graz.at / ...
  3. ↑ a b c sermons by Samuel Mühsam , in: DAVID - Jüdische Kulturzeitschrift 09/2015, online at: davidkultur.at / ...
  4. ↑ a b M. Stein: Příspěvky k životopisu moravských rabínů , Yearbook of the Association of Rabbis in Slovakia, born 1925-26, Trnava, cited above. based on: Hugo Gold : The Jews and Jewish communities in Moravia , Brno 1929, Dějiny Židů ve Bzenci (edited by Josef Hoff), online at: starybzenec.cz / ...
  5. ↑ Samuel Mühsam Selected Sermons , website of Leykam Buchverlag, online (archived) at: leykamverlag.at / ...
  6. ↑ Charlotte Landau-Mühsam: My memories , ed. by the Erich-Mühsam-Gesellschaft e. V., Lübeck, 2010, ISBN 978-3-931079-43-7 , here p. 10f., Online at: books.google.de / ...
  7. ↑ Life data , online at: muehsam.de / ...
personal data
SURNAME Difficult, Samuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German, Bohemian, Moravian and Austrian rabbis
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1837
PLACE OF BIRTH Landsberg OS
DATE OF DEATH February 20, 1907
Place of death Graz