Siegfried Silberstein

Siegfried Silberstein ( January 25, 1866 in Groß Lagiewnik , Lublinitz district , Pawonków parish - August 8, 1935 in Rostock ) was a German rabbi .

Life

Siegfried Silberstein was a son of the merchant Bernhard Silberstein and his wife Beate, nee. Oppler. He first attended the Jewish elementary school in Guttentag and then the grammar school in Beuthen . From 1886 he studied at the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau and at the University of Breslau . In 1892 he was at the University of Tuebingen for Dr. phil. PhD.

From 1893 he was rabbi assistant; He passed the rabbi exmen on January 27, 1895 at the Jewish Theological Seminary and then became a rabbi in Elbing . Here he was also a board member of the West Prussian Rabbis Association and the Association for Jewish History and Literature .

In October 1910 he was appointed regional rabbi of Mecklenburg-Schwerin with an official seat in Schwerin to succeed Fabian Feilchenfeld .

Rostock synagogue

When Max Samuel moved the rabbinate to Rostock in 1925, he moved to Rostock. In March 1934 he was retired as a state rabbi. The Lübeck Rabbi David Alexander Winter also took care of the Mecklenburg communities.

Siegfried Silberstein was a member of the Esra Lodge founded by Leo Landau and Ephraim Adler in the B'nai B'rith in Lübeck and the Association of Liberal Rabbis in Germany.

He published numerous researches on the history of the Jews in Mecklenburg, including Fromet Mendelssohn and Recha Meyer .

His grave is in the Jewish cemetery in Rostock.

Fonts

• About the origin of the text handed down in the Codex Alexandrinus and Vaticanus of the third book of Kings of the Alexandrian translation. Gießen 1893, zugl. Diss. Tübingen 1892, also in ZAW 13 [1894], pp. 1-75, and 14 [1895], pp. 1-30
• Our emperor! [sl]: [sn] Schwerin i. M. (: Bärensprung) 1914
• (Ed.) An Esther scroll engraved in copper from the Rostock University Library , Rostock: Hinstorff, 1930
• The family names of the Jews with special consideration of the legal definition in Mecklenburg. Rostock [Parrestr. 9]: self-published [1929]
• Moses Mendelssohn's widow in Neustrelitz. (With addendum from Max Freudenthal). In: Zeitschrift für die Geschichte der Juden in Deutschland 3 (1931), pp. 123–129; also published separately: Berlin: Philo-Verlag, 1932

literature

• Julius Carlebach , Michael Brocke (ed.): The Rabbis in the German Empire 1871-1945. (= Biographical Handbook of Rabbis 2). Edited by Katrin Nele Jansen, Jörg H. Fehrs, Valentina Wiedner. KG Saur, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-24874-0 / ISBN 978-3-598-44107-3 (e-book), p. 573f, no. 2580
• Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 9455 .
• Michael Buddrus , Sigrid Fritzlar: Jews in Mecklenburg. 1845 - 1945. Paths and fates. A memorial book. Volume 1. Ed .: Institute for Contemporary History Munich - Berlin / State Center for Civic Education Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Schwerin 2019, ISBN 978-3-9816439-9-2 , p. 175.

Web links

• Literature about Siegfried Silberstein in the state bibliography MV
• Works by Siegfried Silberstein in the state bibliography MV
• Dr. Siegfried Silberstein State Rabbi on Die Juden von Mecklenburg , accessed on February 5, 2016