Bernhard Wachstein

Bernhard Wachstein ( born January 31, 1868 in Tluste, Galicia, † January 15, 1935 in Vienna) was a Jewish scholar ( community history, bibliography, Epitaphie ), who built the library of the Vienna Jewish community from scratch, expanded and modernized and on bibliographic field, in particular the history of Austrian Jewry, significant fundamental work delivered.

Life

Bernhard Wachstein settled after completing his Talmudic, philosophical, historical and bibliographic studies in Vienna and was since 1903 librarian (32 years, since 1919, after the death of Dr. Bernhard coin, as head of the library ) of the Jewish Community Vienna.

He also dealt with the family research that takes an outstanding role in Jewish history, and was a distinguished expert in the field.

Writings (selection )

  • Wiener Hebrew epitaphs, 1907
  • Jewish private letters from 1619, Vienna and Leipzig in 1911 (along with Alfred Landau )
  • The founding of the Vienna Chevra Kadisha, 1911
  • Catalogue of Salo Cohn donations, 2 volumes (Vienna: I. 1911, II 1914)
  • The inscriptions in the Jewish cemetery in Vienna, 2 volumes (Vienna / Leipzig: I. 1912, II 1917)
  • Hebrew grave stones from the XIII.-XV. Century in and around Vienna, Vienna 1916
  • The grave inscriptions of the old Jewish cemetery in Eisenstadt ( in: Eisenstadt research, Vol I, edited by Sandór Wolf, 1922. )
  • For bibliography of memory and mourning lectures in Hebrew literature, 3 volumes, Vienna 1922-1930
  • The Jews of Eisenstadt, 2 volumes, 1926
  • Contributions to the History of the Jews in Moravia ( in: Jews and Jewish communities in Moravia, edited by Hugo Gold, 1929. )
  • The Hebrew journalism in Vienna. In three parts, Vienna 1930
  • Bibliography of writings Moritz Güdemanns, Vienna 1931
  • Literature on the Jewish woman. With an appendix: literature on marriage, Vienna 1931
  • Discussion writings on the Jewish question. The new face of anti-Semitism, Vienna 1933
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