Yehezkel Abramsky
Yehezkel Abramsky ( Hebrew יחזקאל אברמסקי, Born February 7, 1886 in Daschkowitschi , Grodno Governorate , Russian Empire ; died September 19, 1976 in Jerusalem ) was a British rabbi .
Life
Yehezkel Abramsky was born the son of a timber merchant in a town in the Tsarist Grodno governorate in today's Swislatsch district. He visited the yeshivot in Telz , Mir , Slobodka and also those in Brest near Chaim Soloweitschik . In 1909 he married Raisel Jerusalimsky and they had four sons. During the First World War he was traveling rabbi then as rabbi in Smaĺjany and Smolevich and Slutsk operates. On the one hand, he tried to maintain the practice of religion in the Jewish communities, even under the growing pressure of the communist regime. On the other hand, he submitted emigration applications for himself and his family to work in Petach Tikwa in the Mandate Palestine , which were rejected in both 1926 and 1928. He was banned from publishing a Hebrew religious magazine in 1928 after the second edition. In 1929 he was arrested as a counter-revolutionary and sentenced to forced labor in Siberia . On international efforts, u. a. he was released in 1931 by the German Chancellor Heinrich Brüning , who exchanged him for five communists convicted in Germany and was able to emigrate to Great Britain . Two sons were held hostage for political goodwill by the Soviet Union and were not released until 1937 under pressure from British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden .
Abramsky became rabbi of the religiously and socially conservative community of Machzike Hadath in London's East End in 1932 . From 1934 on, he was also a dayan (judge) at the Beth Din community court in London and influenced the community in the orthodox sense. He judged on the slaughter and rejected the conversion to Judaism only for reasons of marriage. He also spoke Yiddish in the community . When he retired in 1951, he moved to Jerusalem . In 1955 he received the Israel Prize for Literature for his Tosefta commentary .
In 2014, his great-grandson Sasha Abramsky wrote a biography of Yehezkel's son Chimen Abramsky , who joined the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1941 , and his political revolt against his father.
Fonts (selection)
Hebrew
- Hazon Yehezkel. Commentary on Tosefta, 24 volumes, 1925–1975.
- Judaism. Selected Writings. Jerusalem 1977.
literature
- Raphael Loewe: Abramsky, Yehezkel (1886–1976) , in: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Oxford University Press, 2004
- Encyclopaedia Judaica , Volume 1, 1974, Col. 170-171
- Sasha Abramsky: The house of twenty thousand books. Halban, London 2014.
Web links
- Literature by and about Yehezkel Abramsky in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f Raphael Loewe: Abramsky, Yehezkel (1886–1976) , 2004
- ^ Bernard Wasserstein : On the Eve: The Jews of Europe Before the Second World War . Simon & Schuster, New York 2012, p. 147.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Abramsky, Yehezkel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British rabbi |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 7, 1886 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Daschkowitschi , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 19, 1976 |
| Place of death | Jerusalem |