Ephraim Carlebach

Ephraim Carlebach ( born March 12, 1879 in Lübeck, † October 1936 in Ramat Gan Palestine, now Israel) was an Orthodox German rabbi.

In Leipzig, he founded the Israelite High School, which was named after him Ephraim Carlebach school. In his memory, the Ephraim Carlebach Foundation was established in November 1992 in Leipzig.

Life

Ephraim Carlebach belongs to a German Jewish family that produced significant rabbis. His father Salomon Carlebach (1845-1919), married to Esther Carlebach born Adler (1853-1920), was a rabbi in Lübeck. Ephraim Carlebach had eleven brothers and sisters, seven brothers and four sisters; He was the fifth child. Four of his brothers were also rabbis. There are Emanuel Carlebach (1874-1927), Joseph Carlebach (1883-1942), David Carlebach (1885-1913) and Hartwig Naphtali Carlebach ( 1889-1967 ). Two of his sisters were married rabbis, Bella Carlebach, married Rosenack (1875-1960) and Cecily Carlebach, married Neuhaus ( 1884-1968 ).

Ephraim Carlebach visited the Katharineum to Lübeck. There he was friends with the schoolmates Thomas Mann, who in 1947 recalled: " In the lower school classes [ ... ] I was good friends with a fellow [ ... ], a son of Rabbi Dr. Carlebach, I think he called Ephraim, and was intelligent, gentle and well. His form has impressed me in front of other, more ordinary. "

Carlebach studied theology, history and education in Zurich, Baden near Vienna, Würzburg and Berlin. In 1900 he took over the management of religious school of Talmud Torah Association in Leipzig. In the same year he received his doctorate. His dissertation examines the social and political conditions of the Jewish communities in Mainz, Worms and Speyer. In 1901 the formal ordination as a rabbi. On March 28, 1905, he married Gertrud Jakoby, who came from Bromberg. The couple had five children, the sons Esriel Carlebach (1909-1956), who founded the Israeli newspaper Maariw, David and Joseph, and daughters Hanna and Cecily.

In 1912 Ephraim Carlebach in Leipzig private Israelite High School, which was the sixth junior high school of the city and at the same then Higher School for Girls. Carlebach was also founded by him support, the Israelite School Association, before. In 1924 he took over the Orthodox Rabbinate of Ez- Chaim Synagogue. Carlebach led the Israelite High School until 1935. During the same year the school was awarded the honorary title of Ephraim Carlebach school. His nephew Felix F. Carlebach (1911-2008), who is still taught with his wife Babette at the school, emigrated in 1939. In the spring of 1936 emigrated Carlebach, who was already seriously ill in Leipzig, with his family to Palestine, where he hoped for recovery. He died in October 1936 in Ramat Gan.

Honors

In 1992, in his memory in Leipzig Ephraim Carlebach Foundation established its Board of Trustees, his nephew, the rabbi and Lübeck honorary citizen Felix F. Carlebach belonged. In Leipzig, the Carlebach Street in Mockau 1992 named in the northeast of the city after Ephraim Carlebach. In his native city of Lübeck the Carlebach Park commemorates the university district to the members of the Lübeck rabbinical family.