Zwi Perez Chajes

Zwi Perez Chajes ( born October 13, 1876 in Brody, Galicia, † December 13, 1927 in Vienna) was a rabbi.

Zwi Perez Chajes was the son of a famous rabbinical family. According to the Talmud studies with his father Shelomo Chajes and in the yeshiva of his uncle Isaac Chajes and the visit of the Rabbinical Seminary in Vienna, he was ordained as a rabbi in 1899. In 1902 he went as professor of history and the Bible to the Collegio Rabbinico to Florence. In 1904 he sought the post of Deputy Chief Rabbi of Brno, but was rejected by the community. Subsequently, he was from 1904 to 1912 Lecturer in Biblical exegesis at the University of Florence, after which he was chief rabbi in Trieste. In 1918 he took the position of deputy chief rabbi of the Jewish Community Vienna, and took over from 1921 to 1925 as president when the Zionist Action Committee, was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and chairman of the League of Nations League for Austria and founded in 1919 the first Jewish secondary school ( 1927: Chajes gymnasium) in the 1st district, wire lane 4 in addition, he is one of the founders of the Hebrew Pedagogium in Vienna.

Today in Vienna, among other things, the 1980 re-opened Zwi Perez Chajes school with kindergarten and a Lodge of B'nai B'rith, which is named after Zwi Peres Chajes.

Theses

  • Mark's studies. 1899
  • Proverbia; Contributions to the North Semitic Onomatologie. 1900
  • Jewish and Jewish- Indian grave stone inscriptions from Aden. 1903
  • Hebrew commentary on the Psalms. 2 volumes, 1903 and 1904
  • Hebrew commentary on Amos. 1906
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