Meir Balaban

Majer Balaban ( Meir Balaban, Majer Bałaban Samuel, Samuel Meyer Balaban, born February 20, 1877 in Lwów, † December 26, 1942 in the Warsaw Ghetto ) was the founder of modern Jewish historiography in Poland. He was the first historian of Christian, Jewish and Polish sources, and rabbinic responsa for his studies made ​​use of.

Balaban taught at different Jewish schools in Galicia and taught from 1928 at the University of Warsaw Jewish history and was co-founder of the Institute for Jewish Studies in Warsaw.

Life and work

Biography

Majer Bałaban was born in Lwów (Lviv ), the son of a respected, but impotent Jewish family. He attended a German -speaking middle school and next to the classroom in a Jewish school. He started in 1895 to study law, but had to cancel his studies for financial reasons and taught in the Baron Hirsch schools. In 1900 he resumed his studies in Lviv again and studied history at Ludwik Finkel, editor of Kwartalnik Historyczny where Balaban published in 1903. In 1904 he submitted his dissertation on the Jews of Lwów one at the turn of the 16th and 17th century, which appeared in 1906 under the title Żydzi lwowscy na przełomie XVIgo i XVIIgo wieku. He then taught in secondary schools. In World War I he served as a chaplain in the Austrian army.

Balaban published hundreds of papers in Polish, German, Russian, Hebrew and Yiddish, of which about 70 source -oriented historical works, numerous magazine articles on the history of Polish Jewry, about 150 articles for Jewrejska Enzyklopedja as well as studies of four countries Synod for the elfbändige Russian history of the Jews (1914 ). He was an active Zionist and wrote editorials for the Zionist weekly Wos'chod and taught religion at various Jewish schools in Galicia. 1918 to 1920 he was head of the Jewish University in Czestochowa, 1920-1930 Director of the Rabbinical Seminary in Warsaw Tachkemoni. In 1924 he was a scientific and literary magazine, Nowe Życie out. From 1928 he taught at the University of Warsaw, where he was assistant professor in 1936.

Balaban died in the Warsaw ghetto and found his final resting place in the Jewish cemetery in Warsaw.

Works (selection)

  • The Jews in Lviv at the turn of the 16th and 17th century, 1906
  • The Jewish Quarter of Lublin, 1919
  • History and literature of the Jews, 1924/1925, 3 vols
  • Cultural heritage of the Jews in Poland, 1929
  • The history of Jews in Krakow and Kazimierz 1304-1868, 1931-1936, 2 vols
  • Le Toledot - ha - ha - ah Tenu Frankit, 1934-1935, 2 vols
  • History of ritual murder accusations
  • Herz Homberg
  • Constitutional History of the Jews in Poland

Literature (selection )

  • Jewish Encyclopedia, Berlin 1927, Vol I.
  • Encyclopedia of Judaism, etc. Gütersloh 1971
  • Julius H. Schoeps (ed.), New Dictionary of Judaism, Gütersloh / Munich 1992
  • Wininger 1925 et seq, Vol I.
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