Aaron Halle-Wolfssohn

Aaron Hall - Wolf son (* 1754 or 1756, probably in Halle; † in Fürth 1835) was a German - Jewish author, educator, and representatives of the Jewish Enlightenment.

Life

Aaron Hall - Wolfensohn spent his childhood and youth in Fuerth, his father Wolf Hall practiced there as a physician at the Jewish Hospital. In 1785 he went to Berlin, where he made ​​the acquaintance of the circle of reconnaissance to Moses Mendelssohn. In 1792 he was involved in the founding of the Society of Friends. In the same year he moved to Breslau to, at the local Wilhelm School, a secular educational institution for Jewish boys to act as a teacher and in 1804 was appointed its director. From 1807 to 1813 he was the tutor of the later composer Giacomo Meyerbeer. He spent his back in Fürth, where he died in 1835.

At Halle- Wolfensohn's most important works are in addition to various articles in the journal Ha - Meassef, as its editor, he served for several years, the Hebrew textbook Abtalion (1790), the manifesto Jeshurun ​​(1804 ), but also two comedies.

Works

  • Abtalion. Berlin: Jewish Free School, 1790.
  • Leichtßin and bigotry. A family Gemählde in three Aufsügn. Breslau, 1796.
  • Jeshurun ​​, or unparteyische lighting of the allegations Judenthume recently made ​​. In letters. Breslau 1804.
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