Hannover Charity Association

The charity association (Hebrew: Chevra kadischa , in German "Holy Brotherhood") in Hanover was an association founded in 1762 "[...] for the study of the Torah , to help poor sick people and for the funeral " of - male - personalities of the Jewish community in the Calenberger Neustadt and later also from Hanover.

history

Tombs of the writer Isaac Hirsch (1836–1899), donated "[...] to the well-deserved headmaster in grateful memory" by the Hannover synagogue community charity, and his wife Martha (died on August 20, 1912) at the Jewish cemetery at An der Strangriede

The charity was founded on January 17, 1762 during the time of the Electorate of Hanover . Its full name was "Holy Brotherhood for the Study of Divine Doctrine, Visiting the Sick, and Charity (Burial)".

One of the co-founders was chamber agent David Michael David (died 1766). After the first new synagogue was built on Bergstrasse in Calenberger Neustadt during the Kingdom of Hanover in 1827 and sermons were given there for the first time in German from 1837, the charity was also recognized as a corporation under public law .

In addition to the charity association, the “women's association” was only founded in 1845 as an independent welfare institution for the care of female sick and dead women in Hanover's Jewish community.

Until the Weimar Republic at the beginning of the 1920s, the charity managed the three Jewish cemeteries in Hanover, i.e. the

• Old Jewish cemetery on Oberstrasse ,
• the Jewish cemetery on the Strangriede ,
• as well as the Jewish cemetery Bothfeld .

It was not until 1923 that the Jewish community of Hanover took over the management of its cemeteries.

literature

• Salomon Frensdorff : Sketched representation of the history of the Israelite charity of the synagogue community Hanover , Hanover: [after 1845]
• Selig Gronemann (ed.): Commemorative sheets to commemorate the 150th foundation day of the Hannover synagogue community's charity (Ḥevrah ḳadisha shel biḳur ḥolim u-gemilut ḥasadim) , 88 pages, on behalf of the management of the charity ed. and dedicated to the association members by S. Gronemann, Hanover: Vereinbuchdruckerei, 1912; Digitized (PDF document) from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main from the Freimann collection of the Johann Christian Senckenberg University Library

See also

• History of the Jews in Hanover

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Journal of the Historical Association for Lower Saxony , Hanover: Ernst Geibel Verlagbuchhandlung, 1914, p. 315; Preview over google books
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Peter Schulze : Jews. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 326ff .; Preview over google books
3. ↑ Andreas Reinke: Judaism and welfare in Germany. The Jewish Hospital in Breslau 1726–1944 , in: Research on the history of the Jews (= series of publications by the Society for Researching the History of the Jews and the Ayre Maimon Institute for the History of the Jews ), edited by Alfred Haverkamp in conjunction with Helmut Castrizius, Franz Irsigler and Stefi Jersch-Wenzel, Department A: Treatises , Volume 8, Hanover: Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, 1999, ISBN 3-7752-5617-2 , p. 33, note 54; as a PDF document from the university publication server of the Trier University Library
4. ^ Journal of the Historical Association for Lower Saxony , Hanover: Ernst Geibel Verlagbuchhandlung, 1913, p. 315; Preview over google books