Joseph Perles

Joseph Perles (* November 26, 1835 in Baja, Hungary, † March 4, 1894 in Munich) was a German rabbi and Jewish scholars.

Life

He got his first teaching Talmud by his father Baruch Asher Perles. He then attended the gymnasium of his native town. He was one of the first rabbis who have been trained in the new type of the rabbinical seminary as in Wroclaw. He then attended the University of Breslau and received his PhD in 1859 in oriental philology and philosophy. His dissertation was entitled Meletemata Peschitthoniana.

Perles received his rabbinical diploma 1862. He had received a call to poses as a preacher in the fall of 1862, where he founded his religious school. In 1863 he married Rosalie, eldest daughter of Simon Baruch Schefftel. In the same year he declined a call to Budapest, but took the call to Munich in 1871 as a successor in the office of Rabbi Hirsch Aub on. He was there the first rabbi who had undergone a modern education. The local Jewish community was hardly developed because of the applicable registration laws until 1861, but grew up under Perles administration. 1887 was built as a replacement for the now too small synagogue on Westenriederstraße the new synagogue. Perles refused a reputation as a rabbi in Berlin as the successor of Abraham Geiger and a professor at the newly founded seminary in Budapest.

The most important essays by Perles devote himself to Jewish folklore and Jewish customs. Important and innovative in several respects works by him are his studies on the Jewish wedding to funerals to Hebrew sources of the stories of "1001 Nights " and his discovery of the first Latin version of the Guide of the Perplexed of Maimonides in the Munich Library.

Perles had two sons, Max and Felix. Felix Perles earned his rabbinical diploma in 1898 and became vice - rabbi of Königsberg. Max (April 8, 1867 to October 20, 1894 ) was an expert in ophthalmology and bacteriology, developed the electric ophthalmoscope, taught in Munich and died of a disease caused by an experiment blood poisoning.

To Joseph Perles Perles honor of the Foundation was established, the philanthropy and is dedicated to teaching.