Isaac Noah Mannheimer

Isaac Noah Mannheimer ( born October 17, 1793 in Copenhagen, † March 17 1865 in Vienna ) was a rabbi, who is among other things known for his preaching and his ritual reforms.

Biography

After the emancipation of the Jews in Denmark in 1814 Mannheim was appointed the first royal catechists two years later. After he had first visited Vienna in 1821 and had created a program for the harmonization of the orthodox and liberal rite for use thereon, he initially returned to Copenhagen and spent the next two years in Berlin and Hamburg. In 1824 he was appointed as head of the Israelite religion school in Vienna. Prior to the legal existence of the Jewish Community Vienna, he bore the title of preacher, rabbi from 1852.

He preached the sermon at the laying of the cornerstone of the Vienna City Temple 1825. 1848 he organized together with the Catholics Dr. Anton Whisper a " ecumenical funeral " at the grave of the March Fallen. In 1848 he was elected by the town Brody in the Imperial Parliament. On his 70th birthday in 1863 he was awarded the honorary citizenship of the city of Vienna. Two years later, Rabbi Mannheimer died at his place of work, in the synagogue Seitenstettengasse. He was ( is now in Dobling ) Buried at the Jewish cemetery Waehring, later his remains were transferred to the Central Cemetery in Vienna.

Work and reception

Mannheim is characterized by the movement of liberal Judaism and Reform Judaism; For example, he preached in the synagogues reform in Berlin, Hamburg and Leipzig. As " Hauptkatechet " in Copenhagen, he avoided any immediate entirely on Hebrew language and also used music by Christian composers. In later years of his ministry in Vienna Mannheim returned from a radical reform Judaism from and more moderate forms; he then holds about the Hebrew language is essential. In his homily way, the didactic aspects only slightly weighted, he oriented himself sometimes to Christian theologians. History effect applies Mannheim as " one of the leading preachers of the 19th century " who had reached " all classes of the Jewish population." Adolf howler verdict: " His effectiveness as a preacher is to be described almost as an epoch-making for Judaism. " In particular, Mannheim has the so-called " Viennese rite " or "Mannheim rite " helped shape who and in Jewish communities in Austria, Hungary, Bohemia partly common and Germany could prevent as moderate - modern form a splitting of Vienna. Many of his " divine Lichen lectures " are published in both Danish and German language like Hebrew translation ( by E. Kuttner ). As Mannheimer's main work is considered the first schienene Vienna 1840 prayer book.