Seckel Bamberger

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Isaak Seckel (Yitsḥaḳ Zeḳl ha-Levi) Bamberger (born April 13, 1863 in Fischach ; died October 23, 1934 in Bad Kissingen ) was the penultimate rabbi of the Bad Kissingen district rabbinate from 1902 to 1932 .

Life

He was the son of Simon (Śimḥah) Bamberger (1832-1897), rabbi in Aschaffenburg , and grandson of rabbi Seligmann Bär Bamberger .

The “new synagogue” of Bad Kissingen, consecrated on June 14, 1902

Seckel had been a Bamberg rabbi and religion teacher in Schrimm in the province of Posen since 1887 and was also known through several publications. After his father-in-law and uncle Moses Löb Bamberger (1838–1899), who had held this position for 34 years since 1865, died in 1899, he applied with a letter dated November 26, 1899 at the Royal Bavarian District Office in Bad Kissingen as its successor. On May 2, 1900, the majority of the district parishioners entitled to vote voted for him as the new rabbi for the Bad Kissingen district rabbinate . Seckel Bamberger did not take office until 1902. According to parishioners, he was “one of the most orthodox and learned rabbis of his time” , who gained a good reputation far beyond regional borders, and had a total of 28 Jewish congregations to look after.

In 1905 the " Israelitische Kinderheilstätte " ( Israelitische Kinderheilstätte ) was opened at Salinenstrasse 34 in Bad Kissingen on the basis of his initiative . At the same time, it offered a maximum of 86 sick children from Jewish or occasionally Christian less well-off families from all parts of Germany a four-week cure between May 1st and October each year. If necessary, some children were also offered free medical help. In the summer of 1932 a total of 410 children were admitted.

In 1924 he ran a “wandering poor” fund in Bad Kissingen. He was also active with some city ​​councils in the “poor council”, which was committed to the welfare of the poor. In 1927 he founded an "Israelitisches Kurhospiz" for adults in the spa town.

Several times there were arguments between the strictly orthodox rabbi and the modern-liberal Chewra Kadischa (funeral association) in Bad Kissingen. In 1929, for example, the members of the Chewra believed that they could also use the tahara ( washing of corpses ) for cremations , whereas Rabbi Bamberger fundamentally refused to do so in accordance with the requirements of Orthodox Judaism . Finally, the Chewra members gave in and from then on refrained from washing corpses at cremations.

At the beginning of July 1932, Seckel Bamberger was forced to retire after exactly 30 years in office. His successor in office was Dr. Max Ephraim .

Seckel Bamberger's gravestone in the Jewish cemetery

Bamberger married his cousin Nannette Bamberger (born January 30, 1870 in Bad Kissingen; died unknown), the daughter of his Bad Kissingen predecessor and uncle Moses Löb Bamberger and his wife Esther (1846 / 47–1923). The couple had a total of seven children, of which Simon Bamberger became rabbi in Stuttgart and his brother Moses Löb Bamberger became rabbi in Mainz from 1929/1930 .

Stumbling blocks for wife Nannette and daughter Kehla Bamberger

Bamberger lived in Bad Kissingen in the house on Promenadestrasse 5C (today Promenadestrasse 17) near the synagogue . He was buried in the Bad Kissingen Jewish cemetery in 1934 . At the end of November 1935, on the anniversary of his death, his gravestone was erected in the cemetery. According to his last will, the stone only contains names, dates of birth and death, places of work with the respective length of stay and the titles of his publications.

His wife Nannette and daughter Kehla (born 1893) were deported on April 24, 1942 from Bad Kissingen via Würzburg to the Izbica ghetto , where they probably died in one of the extermination camps nearby . To commemorate both of them, Gunter Demnig , initiator of the international “ Stolpersteine ” campaign, laid two such stones in the sidewalk in front of her former “Adelaide” health resort (Promenadestrasse 17) in Bad Kissingen on September 22, 2010.

Fonts

  • Funeral speech at the funeral service for the immortalized Moses Löb Bamberger held in the synagogue in Bad Kissingen on March 25th. M. Rosenbaum, 1899.
  • Sayings of fathers on school use. (פרקי אבות), Verlag J. Kauffmann , Frankfurt am Main 1914.

literature

  • Hans-Jürgen Beck, Rudolf Walter: Jewish life in Bad Kissingen. Page 29f., City of Bad Kissingen (ed.), Rötter Druck und Verlag, Bad Neustadt 1990.
  • Shaul Esh, Yirat Adler, Roa Kanter Eschwege: The Bamberger family. The descendants of Rabbi Seligmann Bär Bamberger, the "Würzburger Rav" (1807-1878). Wahrmann Books, 1964, page 57.
  • Esriel Hildesheimer , Mordechai Eliav: Das Berliner Rabbinerseminar 1873-1938 , Berlin 2008, ISBN 9783938485460 , p. 62

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Article in the journal Der Israelit from August 6, 1900 [1]
  2. ↑ In the meantime, Rabbi Nathan Bamberger from Würzburg took over the position of representation.
  3. ^ Jewish life in Bad Kissingen , page 20
  4. ↑ Article in the journal Der Israelit from July 21, 1932
  5. ↑ She died in February 1923 at the age of 76
personal data
SURNAME Bamberger, Seckel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bamberger, Isaak Seckel; Bamberger, Yitzhak Seckel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Rabbi of the district rabbinate Bad Kissingen
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Fischach , Augsburg district
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 1934
Place of death Bad Kissingen