Victor Meyer Rawicz

Victor Meyer Rawicz (born August 19, 1846 in Breslau , † October 10, 1915 in Berlin ) was a German rabbi .

Life

Rawicz studied at the Wroclaw Jewish Theological Seminary and trained as a rabbi. He took up his first job as a rabbi in Kempen in 1874, before going to Schmieheim as a district rabbi in 1876. At his request, the district rabbinate was relocated to Offenburg in 1893, where Rawicz also gave religious instruction in secondary schools and inspected religious instruction in the rural communities in his district. In 1884 he founded the Jewish literary association "Harmonie". Rawicz often turned against anti-Semitic tendencies in the empire. He published several translations of tracts from the Babylonian Talmud. In total he was the district rabbinate for 37 years. In 1913 he moved to Berlin.

Works / translations

• The Rosh Hashanah tract: with consideration of most of the Tosafot . Translated into German by Dr. M. Rawicz, district rabbi, Schmieheim (Baden), Frankfurt am Main: Comissions-Verlag by J. Kauffmann 1886.
• Sermon for Kol Nidre of the year 5648 , Ettenheim: Leibold 5648 [1887].
• Sermon for the 8th day of Passover in 5648 (1888), Ettenheim: Leibold 1888.
• The treatise on Sanhedrin (based on the Vienna edition of 1867, ed. Schloßberg) . In Dt. transfer u. with ext. Note vers. by M. Rawicz, Frankfurt a. M.: Hofmann 1892.
• The treatise Kethuboth (after the Vienna edition of 1867 ed. Schlossberg) : with constant consideration of the French. Translation by Rabbinowicz. Translated into German and commented by Dr. M. Rawicz, district rabbi in Offenburg (Baden), 2 vols., Frankfurt a. Main: Verlag von J. Kauffmann 1898–1900 ( digitized version ).
• Sermon for the 50th anniversary of the government Sr. Königl. Highness of the Grand Duke Friedrich von Baden: Sunday April 27, 1902 , Offenburg: Geck 1902.
• The Talmudic treatise "Chulin": which deals with the rules of Jewish ritual slaughter . According to the Vienna edition of 1865 (ed. Schloßberg) in Dt. transfer u. come over. by M. Rawicz, Volume 1: Fol. 2a to 69b, [Offenburg]: Selbstverl. d. Ed. 1908 ( digitized version ).
• Maimonides' commentary on the sayings of the fathers. Translated into German for the first time. Go ahead as an introduction: “The 8 chapters” translated into German by M. Rawicz, district rabbi in Offenburg (Baden), [Offenburg]: Selbstverl. d. Author; Strasbourg: Trübner 1910.

literature

• Martin Ruch: Jewish personalities from Offenburg: art, culture and science , Offenburg; [Willstätt]: KulturAgentur Ruch; Norderstedt: BoD, Books on Demand 2013, ISBN 978-3-7322-3956-6 , pp. 131-137.
• Bernd Rottenecker: District rabbi Victor Meyer Rawicz (1846–1915) . In .: Jürgen Stude, Bernd Rottenecker, Dieter Petri: Jüdisches Leben in der Ortenau, Bühl: seitenweise 2017, ISBN 978-3-943874-25-9 , pp. 198–199.