Blessed Schachnowitz
Selig Schachnowitz (born May 27, 1874 in Jurbarkas , Russian Empire ; died January 23, 1952 in Zurich ) was a publicist.
Life
The son of Isaac and Leah, b. Riszmann, was trained as a teacher in Lithuania, Frankfurt am Main and Switzerland.
From 1901 to 1908 he worked in the synagogue in Endingen AG as a chasan . On his arrival, on a trip to Baden AG, he had presented his first Opus Chajim Moschiach to his hotelier for examination, and eight days later he found it printed in the Mainz Israelit .
After that he worked as an editor at the modern Orthodox magazine The Israelite in Frankfurt am Main , where he also teaches at the Talmudic College of Salomon Breuer was. With his wife Zessi, geb. Löb, he had the daughter Gertrud (1910–2007). After a visit to Eretz Israel he wrote Between Ruins and Construction in Erez-Israel in 1931 . He emigrated to Switzerland in 1938 after the publishing house was closed.
literature
- Schachnowitz, Blessed. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 19: Sand – Stri. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. De Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2012, ISBN 978-3-598-22699-1 , pp. 15-19.
- Sylvia Jaworski: Schachnowitz, Blessed. In: Andreas B. Kilcher (Ed.): Metzler Lexicon of German-Jewish Literature. Jewish authors in the German language from the Enlightenment to the present. 2nd, updated and expanded edition. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-476-02457-2 , pp. 445-447.
- Schachnowitz, Selig , in: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 327
- Schachnowitz, Selig , in: Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.2. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 1019
Web links
- Literature by and about Selig Schachnowitz in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Robert Uri Kaufmann : Schachnowitz, Selig. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Register entry of the German biography
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schachnowitz, Blessed |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Publicist and Chasan |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 27, 1874 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jurbarkas |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 23, 1952 |
| Place of death | Zurich |