Henrik Bródy

Heinrich ( Chaim, Hayim ) Brody, pseudonym: H. Solomon son ( born May 21, 1868 in Ungvár, county Ung; † May 7, 1942 in Jerusalem ) was a rabbi, a literary scholar and editor.

Life

Heinrich Brody, a descendant of the Bohemian Rabbi Abraham Broda (1640-1717), studied post-school in his hometown first in Pressburg Yeshiva, to devote himself to study the Torah and the Talmud, and later in Berlin at the rabbinical seminary for Orthodox Judaism and at the Berlin University.

During his time in the later rabbis Bohemian Náchod he opened Zionism and led the religious Zionist Mizrachi organization. In 1905 Brody went to Prague, where he was chief rabbi in 1912. In order to take over the management of the justified by Salman Schocken Institute for the Study of Hebrew poetry, he went to Berlin in 1930. Due to the rise of the Nazis in 1933, the institute was moved to Jerusalem, where Brody also emigrated.

Brody's scientific work area were the medieval Hebrew poetry and the Sephardic liturgical poems ( Pijjutim ), which were recited during Jewish religious services. As a result of his studies published editions Brody important medieval Hebrew poets (eg, Solomon Ibn Gabirol, Shmuel Nagid Moshe Ibn Ezra, or ). In supervised by Stefan Zweig foreign-language book series Insel Verlag Bibliotheca mundi he edited in 1922 a Hebrew -language anthology of medieval spiritual verses of the 1492 Jews expelled from Spain. Together with Aron Freimann he published the magazine he founded in 1896, for Hebrew bibliography. For some time he was also secretary, founded in Lyck in East Prussia in 1864 literary society Mekize Nirdamim dedicated to the publication of older Hebrew books and manuscripts.

Writings (selection )

• Diwan of Abu- el- Hasan Jehuda ha Levi. Berlin, H. Itzkowski 1930
• Edited by Meir Wiener: Anthologia Hebraica. Poemata selecta a libris divinis confectis usque ad Iudaeorum ex Hispania expulsionem (A. MCCCCXCII ). Leipzig, Insel Verlag 1922