Tia Weil

Rabbi Tiah Weil, copperplate engraving, 18th century

Jedidia (called Tia ) ben Jakob Nathanael Weil ( Hebrew ידידיה טיאה בן יעקב נתנאל וייל; October 2, 1721 in Prague - October 10, 1805 in Karlsruhe ) was a regional rabbi in Baden and a rabbinical scholar.

Life

Tia Weil came from one of the oldest Swabian rabbi dynasties, which goes back to Jakob Weil . Weil was a son of Rabbi Nathanael Weil . His mother, Feigele, was the niece of the Frankfurt chief rabbi Abraham Brod. He grew up in Prague and studied at his father's yeshiva .

Weil married Gitel Eger in 1744 from a distinguished Prague family. Due to the expulsion of the Jews by Maria Theresa (edict of March 31, 1745), they had to leave Prague in 1745 and temporarily stayed in Metz with the Talmudist Jonathan Eybeschütz , known to him from Prague , whose pupil Weil was there. When he was able to return to Prague in 1748, Tia Weil continued his father's yeshiva. He also temporarily accepted a rabbinical position in the Bohemian municipality of Votice . In 1770 he was succeeded by his father, who died in 1769, as chief rabbi for the margraviate of Baden-Baden and the margraviate of Baden-Durlach in Karlsruhe .

There he continued his teaching activities and Karlsruhe became, next to Fürth, the second southern German center of rabbinical studies. In 1790, during his lifetime, the only publication was a commentary on the Haggadah . The collections of his unpublished writings are currently being edited in Jerusalem .

Abraham Weil (1754–1831) and Nathan Weil (1756–1829) were also rabbis of his sons .

literature

• Birgit Klein: R. Jedidja called Tia Weil (1721–1805) - outstanding rabbi and scholar of Baden in the transition to modernity . In: Jüdisches Leben in Baden 1809 to 2009. 200 years Oberrat der Israeliten Baden , Ostfildern 2009, ISBN 978-3-7995-0827-8 , pp. 45–55.
• Leopold Löwenstein : Nathanael Weil: Oberland rabbi in Karlsruhe and his family . In: Contributions to the history of the Jews in Germany , Vol. 2, Frankfurt a. M. 1898, pp. 23-31.
• Berthold Rosenthal : Homeland history of the Baden Jews from their historical appearance to the present , Bühl 1927 (Reprint: Magstadt bei Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-7644-0092-7 ), pp. 223-224, 226, 237.
• Entry BECAUSE, Tia. 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, ISBN 3-598-24871-7 , pp. 886f.
• Carsten Wilke: Nathanael Weil . In: Jewish Life in Baden 1809 to 2009. 200 Years of the Oberrat der Israeliten Baden , Ostfildern 2009, ISBN 978-3-7995-0827-8 , p. 224.

Web links

Commons : Tia Weil  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry in the Jewish Encyclopedia