Manuel Joël

Manuel Joël (* October 19, 1826 in Birnbaum, today Międzychód, † November 3, 1890 in Breslau) was a Jewish scholar and rabbi.

Manuel Joel, son of a rabbi, graduated from the University of Berlin classical philology and philosophy and Jewish religion. Here he came under the influence of Leopold Zunz and Michael Sachs 1852 he earned his doctorate at the University of Halle Dr. phil. He arrived in 1854 as a teacher at the newly built Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau and in 1863 as the successor of Abraham Geiger rabbinical the local community. At rabbinical assemblies in Kassel ( 1868) and Leipzig (1869 ), he held a moderate reform movement in Judaism, unlike violinist radical views and entered in favor of preserving the Jewish character of synagogue worship and respect for the historical past.

He published:

• The religious philosophy of Maimonides (Breslau 1859)
• Levi ben Gerson as a philosopher of religion (Breslau 1862)
• Ratio Albert the Great. to Maimonides (Breslau 1863)
• Don Hasdai Creskas ' religious-philosophical teachings (Breslau 1866)
• Spinoza's theological- political treatise (Breslau, 1870)
• At the genesis of Spinoza (Breslau, 1871)

These writings were collected with different papers as contributions to the history of philosophy (Breslau: Skutsch, 1876, 2 vols ), edited a reprographic edition appeared in 1978 (Hildesheim: Gerstenberg, ISBN 3-8067-0730-8 ).

From later writings are:

• Notes on the Book of Daniel. Something about the Sifra and Sifre Books (Breslau 1873)
• Religious and philosophical questions time (Breslau 1876)
• Opinion on the Talmud ( 1877)
• Looks into the history of religion ( 1880-83, 2 ​​vols )

In Berlin Antisemitism Dispute 1879-1881 he became the first Jewish academic position against the writings of the members of parliament Heinrich von Treitschke.