Zvi Hirsch Kalischer

Zvi Hirsch Kalisz (also Zvi or Zevi Hirsch Kalisz; born March 24, 1795 in Lissa, Posen, † October 16, 1874 in Toruń ) was a rabbi, Zionist thinkers, Talmud scholar, forerunner of the Palestinian movement and of religious Zionism.

Life

Zvi Hirsch Kalisz received classical Jewish education of his time, was a rabbi and worked from 1824 until his death in Thorn. In addition to fulfilling the tasks for his community, he engaged continually for the settlement of Jews in Eretz Israel, which represented a necessary step and active contribution of the Jewish people before the arrival of the Messiah for him.

According to his work Derishat Zion ( " longing for Zion ," 1861) find salvation on a double, earthly and unearthly level instead: By God's help, on the one hand, through action of the Jewish people - precisely through colonization of Palestine and construction work in the country - on the other. In particular, the development of an extensive farming he measured it a special significance. In his reflections, he pointed to the independence movements of European nations and missed just such a national revival among the Jews. In the vast majority of Orthodox rabbis of his time he came so much resistance.

Kalisz campaigned on many trips through Europe, where he visited the large Jewish communities and sought to win the Jewish leaders for his views, as well as through the publication of articles in Hebrew newspapers, magazines and halakhic anthologies for his ideas. The book itself influenced various Jewish thinkers, including Moses Hess, among others.

As an agricultural school was opened in Mikveh Israel in 1870, Kalisz saw it as the dawn of a new era in terms of the realization of his ideals and was considering a move there to monitor the compliance of all the commandments, which are in connection with Eretz Israel. But for this it should not come. 1874 died Zvi Hirsch Kalisz in Torun and was buried there. His grave stone was located and found until 2010.

Zvi Hirsch Kalisz was grandfather of the physicist Salomon Kalisch.

Springs / Literature (selection )

  • Jewish Encyclopedia, Berlin 1927, Vol III.
  • Encyclopedia of Judaism, etc. Gütersloh 1971
  • Rabbi (Poland )
  • Person ( Toruń )
  • Pole
  • Born in 1795
  • Died in 1874
  • Man
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