Adolf Kober

Adolf Kober ( born September 3, 1879 in Bytom, Upper Silesia, † December 30, 1958 in New York City ) was a rabbi and historian.

Life

Kober studied 1898-1907 at the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau and at the University of Breslau and received his PhD in 1903 with a thesis on the medieval history of the Jews in Cologne. In 1907, he put an additional examination from the rabbi. After that, he was from 1908 to 1918 district rabbi in Wiesbaden.

1918 took over Kober in Cologne, one of the then largest Jewish communities in Germany, the site of a community rabbi. In 1922, he founded a poor box. 1925 was responsible Kober the nationally acclaimed very department of the Jewish history of the " millennium exhibition of the Rhineland ", which took place at the Cologne exhibition center. In Cologne Kober founded in 1928 also the "Jewish house of study " as a place of Jewish adult education in the same year and was responsible for planning the content of Jewish Press Pavilion at the great Cologne's cultural scene " Pressa ". In addition to his rabbinical activity is devoted Kober in numerous scientific publications in the history of the Rhineland Jews. In the 1930s, he was co-editor of the prestigious Journal of the History of the Jews in Germany.

In 1939 Kober in the U.S., where he worked in New York in addition to his work as a rabbi continues remained scientifically active until his death in 1958 and had a research fellowship from the American Academy for Jewish Research. In the U.S., he worked on with the history of the Rhenish Judaism. Cologne, he visited only in the years 1953 and 1957.

In 1963, the city of Cologne named a street after Adolf Kober in the right-bank district master home.

Works

• Studies on the medieval history of the Jews in Cologne on the Rhine, in particular their land. Breslau in 1903 ( Univ. Diss ).
• History of the Jews in Wiesbaden in the first half of the 19th century, Wiesbaden 1913
• Land Register of the Cologne Jewish Quarter 1135-1425. A contribution to medieval topography, legal history and statistics of the city of Cologne. Bonn 1920 ( = Publications of the Society for Rhenish history lesson 34)

• From the history of Jews in the Rhineland. In: Rhenish Association for heritage conservation and land protection. 1931 Issue 1, Dusseldorf 1931, pp. 11 ff
• Karl Marx's father and the Napoleonic exceptional law against the Jews in 1808. Yearbook of the Cologne Historical Society Vol 14 eV Cologne 1932
• From the history of Jews in the Rhineland, in: Rhenish Association for home care and homeland security 1/24 ( 1931). Pp. 11-98.
• Cologne, The Jewish Publication Society of America, Philadelphia 1940
• Jewish Monuments of the Middle Ages in Germany. One Hundred and Ten Tombstone Inscriptions from Speyer, Cologne, Nuremberg and Worms ( 1085- c. 1428 ). Part 1 In: Proceedings of the American Academy for Jewish Research 14 (1944). Pp. 149-220, Part 2, in: Ibid. 15 (1945 ). Pp. 1-91.