Ismar Elbogen

Ismar Elbogen ( born September 1, 1874 in Schildberg; † August 1, 1943 in New York City ) was a German - Jewish scholar and rabbi.

Life and work

Elbogen was initially trained by his uncle Jaacov Lavy, author of the modern Hebrew dictionary, later at the high school and from 1893 at the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau and at the University of Breslau, where he received his doctorate in 1898. His rabbinical diploma was awarded to him in 1899, and he became a lecturer in Biblical exegesis and Jewish history at the Collegio Rabbinico Italiano in Florence. Since 1902 Associate Professor and Rector of the College of Jewish Studies in Berlin, he was appointed in 1919 to the Prussian professor. He worked with the five -volume Jewish Encyclopedia ( 1927-30 ) and the Encyclopaedia Judaica ( 1928-34 ). After 1933 he was a member of the Reich Association of German Jews.

After he emigrated in 1938 to the United States, he taught there until his death on Jewish Institute of Religion in New York City, besides also at the Jewish Theological Seminary and the Hebrew Union College.

Works (selection)

  • The Tractatus de intellectus Emendatione and his position within the philosophy of Spinoza, Diss, Wroclaw 1898
  • In Commemorazione di S. D. Luzzatto, Florence 1901
  • The Latest Construction of Jewish History, Wroclaw 1902
  • History of the Eighteen Benedictions ( winning prize essay ), 1903
  • The religious beliefs of the Pharisees, 1904 ( against Harnack, Bousset and others)
  • The Jewish service in its historical development, Fock, Leipzig 1913 ( digitized archive.org ); Frankfurt / M. 2nd edition, 1924 ( digitized UB Frankfurt); 3rd edition 1931 ( reprint Olms, Hildesheim, among others 1995), pp. 115-117 (also available for inspection at Google Books). ( authoritative standard work, based on preliminary work Zunzens; Übers in engl: Jewish Liturgy: .. A Comprehensive History, trans Raymond P. Scheindlin, The Jewish Publication Society of America, Philadelphia 1993, in Hebrew Translator's 1972).
  • History of the Jews since the downfall of the Jewish state in 1919
  • Teachings of Judaism (4 vols ), 1920-1924
  • Figures and moments of Jewish History, 1927
  • The history of Jews in Germany, Berlin 1935 (1966 new ed. E. Sterling)
  • A Century of Jewish Life, Philadelphia 1944 ( posthumously )

Elbogen was a member of the Jewish lexicon (Berlin 1927 et seq.) From 1928 to 1934 he edited ten volumes of the Encyclopaedia Judaica. He also counted since 1934 to the employees of the Germania Judaica and was co-editor of the Journal for the History of Jews in Germany ( New Series, Berlin: Philo -Verlag, 1929 to 1937 ).

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