Joseph Samuel Bloch

Joseph Samuel Bloch ( born November 20, 1850 in Dukla, Galicia, Austria - Hungary, now Poland, † October 1, 1923 in Vienna ) was an Austrian rabbi and imperial parliaments.

Life

Bloch, son of a baker visited as a young yeshiva, Rabbi made ​​the training and got the secondary school education for pleasure in Magdeburg and Liegnitz. After his studies in Munich and Zurich where he became doctor of philosophy and lived out as a rabbi in Rendsburg (Holstein), Kobylin ( Posen ), Brüx (Bohemia ), and finally in the Viennese workers Floridsdorf community.

From 1883 to 1895 he was a member of the Austrian House of Representatives as an emissary of the Galician districts Buczacz - Kolomea - Sniatyn and as a member of the Polish Club.

He was an ardent advocate any Jewish affair and took the Jews in the Imperial Parliament and in the press lines in protection. Particular attention aroused his trial against the advocates of the blood libel, August Rohling. He was co-founder of the Austrian- Israelite Union.

As the price paid by Pastor Joseph Deckert convert Paul Meyer claimed in 1893 in the issue of homeland from May 11 that a group of Russian rabbis had committed in Lentschna in his presence a ritual murder, Bloch led on behalf of the children of the rabbi law enforcement Deckert, Meyer, and the publisher of this magazine. On September 15, the conspiracy was uncovered in the process and sentenced the three defendants to prison.

Bloch was the founder and decades of publisher and editor of the " Oesterreichische Wochenschrift ," which first turned against the Jewish German nationalism, but then also against policy of Theodor Herzl. Commitment he showed during the First World War and afterwards with the help of East European Jewish refugees in Vienna.

He was a supporter of the national Judaism and the Jewish colonization in Palestine, but also opponents of political Zionism. Later, he became a follower of the Austrian idea.

Publications

  • To Egadi hermeneutics (1873 )
  • The origin and history of the book of Ecclesiastes (1872 )
  • Studies in the History and Collection of Old Testament Literature (1876 )
  • The Jews in Spain ( 1876)
  • Against the anti-Semites (1882 )
  • Prof. blank and the Vienna Rabbinate (1882 )
  • The national discord and the Jews in Austria (1886 )
  • Documents on Enlightenment (1884, 1885, 1900)
  • The Jewish question in Romania ( 1902)
  • Israel and the nations (1922 )

Reception

  • The action against anti-Semitism in Austria awards the Joseph Samuel Bloch Medal.
  • 2002: In the Floridsdorf Hoßplatz a Joseph Samuel Bloch Park is named.
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