Jacob Rosenheim

Jacob Rosenheim
BornNovember 5, 1870
Frankfurt, German Empire
DiedNovember 3, 1965 (aged 94)
Jerusalem, Israel
NationalityGerman
OrganizationWorld Agudath Israel
SpouseGertrude Straus

Jacob Rosenheim (also Jakob Rosenheim; November 5, 1870 – November 3, 1965)[1] was a German-Jewish publisher, author, and the co-founder of World Agudath Israel.[2]

Biography

Rosenheim was born in Frankfurt as the son of Elias Rosenheim and Charlotte Kaufmann. His father worked as a bookseller, and his parents were early adherents to Samson Raphael Hirsch's neo-Orthodox Judaism movement. He graduated from a Frankfurt grammar school and from the Israelite Religious Society [de] in 1886.[2]

He was married to Gertrude Straus, the daughter of banker Samuel Straus of Karlsruhe, a fellow member of the neo-Orthodox movement. From 1906 to 1935, he was the editor of German magazine Der Israelit,[2] and chairman of the Israelite Religious Society in Frankfurt. In 1912, he co-founded World Agudath Israel, and served as its president for many years.[3] He used his ownership of Der Israelit to help promote the views and goals of his organization.[4] Rosenheim emigrated to England following the rise of the Nazi Party in Germany, and from 1941 to 1950, he lived in exile in the United States. He immigrated to Israel after its independence in 1948 and lived in Jerusalem and Bnei Brak until his death in 1965.[5]

Works

  • Rosenheim, Jacob (1920). Beiträge zur Orientierung im jüdischen Geistesleben der Gegenwart (in German). Arzenu.
  • Rosenheim, Jacob (1930). Zur innerjüdischen Politik in Deutschland. Zionismus und jüdische Weltpolitik. Agudas Jisroel. Um das heilige Land. Gestalten (in German). J. Kauffmann.
  • Rosenheim, Jacob (1930). Von jüdischer Lehrer und Weltanschauung. Von jüdischem Gemeindeleben und Erziehungswesen (in German). J. Kauffmann.
  • Rosenheim, Jacob (1931). Agudistische Schriften (in German). Herausgegeben von der deutschen Landesorganisation der Agudas Jisroel.
  • Rosenheim, Jacob (1951). Samson Raphael Hirsch's Cultural Ideal and Our Times. Shapiro, Vallentine & Company.

References

  1. ^ Oppenheimer, John F., ed. (1971). Lexikon des Judentums (in German) (2. Aufl ed.). Gütersloh: Bertelsmann. p. 674. ISBN 978-3-570-05964-7.
  2. ^ a b c "Rosenheim, Jacob – Deutsche Biographie". Deutsche Biographie (in German). Retrieved 2024-01-08.
  3. ^ Shapiro, Marc B., ed. (1999), "Letter from Jacob Rosenheim", Between the Yeshiva World and Modern Orthodoxy: The Life and Works of Rabbi Jehiel Jacob Weinberg, 1884–1966, Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, Liverpool University Press, pp. 234–235, ISBN 978-1-909821-75-0, retrieved 2024-01-08
  4. ^ "The Gathering Storm: Jewish Life in Germany and Eastern Europe in the 1930s, Nazi Germany, 1933-1935,, Der Israelit". exhibits.uflib.ufl.edu. Retrieved 2024-01-04.
  5. ^ "Jacob Rosenheim, Founder of Agudath Israel, Dies in Jerusalem; Was 95". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. 1965-11-04. Retrieved 2024-01-08.