Isaac Rülf

Isaac Rülf ( born February 10, 1831 in Rauischholzhausen, Hesse, † September 18, 1902 in Bonn ) was a German rabbi, Jewish and Zionist politicians.

Life

Rülf was a rabbi since 1857, as a longtime rabbi in Memel active since 1865., Where he was also editor of the daily political newspaper Memeler steamboat. He also emerged as a philosophical writer, particularly through the five -volume work science of ideas of world - the Thought World Science - Science of the power unit - the science of mental unit - the science of God's unity.

Isaac Rülf was an early pioneer of Hibbat Zion. His particular interest was the Russian Jews and Jewish emigrants, for which he organized as a Jewish politician charities. This earned him the nickname " Dr. Hülf " one. He supported Theodor Herzl from the beginning, especially against the anti-Zionist "Protest Rabbis ". Until his death he participated in all the Zionist congresses. The last years of his life were spent in Bonn worked tirelessly for the spread of Zionist thought.

Other works

• My trip to Kovno, 1869.
• Three days in Jewish- Russia, 1881.
• Aruchas Bas- Ammi. Israel's healing. A serious word of faith and non- co-religionists, Frankfurt 1883
• The right of inheritance as hereditary evil, o O. undated