Wolf Landau

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Wolf Landau ( March 1, 1811 in Dresden - August 24, 1886 ibid) was Chief Rabbi of the Jewish Community in Dresden .

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He was the son of the Dresden teacher Mordechai-Juda Landau and the Reizel Hainsfurth. On his father's side he was the grandson of David Wolf Landau , the first chief rabbi in Dresden, whose successor Abraham Löwy introduced him to the Talmud. It attended the yeshiva of Aron Kornfeld in Golčův Jeníkov in Bohemia and then the Kreuzschule in Dresden. In 1836, Landau took a three-year course at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitätin Berlin, he also studied the Talmud with the rabbis Jacob Joseph Öttinger and Elhanan Rosenstein. In 1839 he returned to Dresden and, like his father, became a teacher at the Israelite community school founded three years earlier, which replaced the previously operated private schools. In 1841 he received his doctorate in Leipzig and the following year he married Fanni Feilchenfeld (1816–1891), the daughter of the cantor Hirsch Feilchenfeld and sister of the future rabbi Fabian Feilchenfeld .

Landau worked for the Jewish magazine Der Orient and the monthly magazine for the history and science of Judaism published by Zacharias Frankel . He gave lectures in scientific and non-profit associations. In 1845 he was called in by Frankel as a dayan, as an assessor in the rabbinical court .

Grave of dr. Wolf Landau

After Frankels left for Breslau, Landau succeeded him as chief rabbi of the Jewish community in Dresden in 1854 . He had been a member of the board of directors and chairman of the Dresden Mendelssohn Association since 1851. In 1863 he founded the “Fund for Shameful Poor”. Together with the community leader Emil Lehmann, he attended the first Israelite synod in Leipzig. He was also active as a writer and published, for example, the "Pictures from the life of famous rabbis" and "Ahawas nezach - love over the grave".

Landau was committed to the emancipation of the Jews in Saxony, including in the work he published, The Petition of the Board of the Israelite Community in Dresden . In it, he thanked the Jews for granting religious and civil rights , but criticized the fact that the lifting of restrictions left something to be desired.

In 1879 he received the Knight's Cross First Class of the Albrecht Order because of his services "as a preacher, as a religion teacher, as a pastor and as a benefactor of the poor". Landau died in Dresden in 1886 and was buried in the New Jewish Cemetery there. After his death, the Dr. Wolf Landau Foundation brought into being.

literature

  • Michael Brocke , Julius Carlebach (ed.): The rabbis of the emancipation period in the German, Bohemian and Greater Poland countries 1781-1871. Edited by Carsten Wilke . De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2004, ISBN 978-3-11-175037-8 , p. 563 f .; Digitized
  • Kerstin Hagemeyer: Jewish life in Dresden. Exhibition on the occasion of the consecration of the new Dresden synagogue on November 9, 2001 . Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-910005-27-6 .
  • Alphonse Levy : History of the Jews in Saxony. S. Calvary & Co., Berlin 1901, pp. 89 f., Pp. 93-96, p. 102; Digitized
  • Daniel Ristau: Wolf Landau's appointment as head rabbi of Dresden 1854/55: microhistorical insights . In: Medaon 12/2013 ( online )

Fonts

  • The petition of the board of the Israelite community in Dresden and its fate in the second chamber. Walther, Dresden 1843, digitized in the Google book search

Web links

Commons : Wolf Landau  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hagemeyer, pp. 102, 113, 129 and 130.
  2. ↑ a b c d Michael Brocke , Julius Carlebach (ed.): The rabbis of the emancipation period in the German, Bohemian and Greater Poland countries 1781-1871. Edited by Carsten Wilke. De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2004, ISBN 978-3-11-175037-8 , p. 563 f .; limited preview in Google Book search
  3. ^ A. Levy: History of the Jews in Saxony. P. 89 f.
  4. ↑ Stephan Sehlke: Pädagogen - Pastoren - Patrioten: Biographical manual on printed matter for children and young people by authors and illustrators from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania from the beginning up to and including 1945 , BOD, 2009, ISBN 3837094979 , p. 103; limited preview in Google Book search
  5. ↑ Dresden rabbis , project “Shalom” in the Christian Youth Village Chemnitz, accessed on July 31, 2016
  6. ^ Employee directory , in: Der Orient. Reports, Studies, and Reviews for Jewish History and Literature. 9th year 1948, p. Iv; limited preview in Google Book search
  7. ↑ a b c Hagemeyer, p. 113.
  8. ^ A. Levy: History of the Jews in Saxony. P. 102
  9. ^ A. Levy: History of the Jews in Saxony. Pp. 94-96
  10. ^ A. Levy: History of the Jews in Saxony. P. 102
predecessor Office successor
Zacharias Frankel Chief Rabbi of Dresden
1854–1886 		Jakob Winter
personal data
SURNAME Landau, Wolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chief rabbi
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 1886
Place of death Dresden