Saul Pinchas Rabbinowicz

Saul Pinchas Rabbinowicz
Born8 April 1845 Edit this on Wikidata
Died6 December 1910 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 65)
Frankfurt Edit this on Wikidata

Saul Pinchas Rabbinowicz (Saul Pinehas Rabbinowicz / Rabbinowitsch / Rabinowitz; Akronym: Schepher / SchePheR; * 1845 in Tauroggen; † 1910 in Frankfurt am Main) was a Jewish scholar, writer and Hebrew translator, and a member of the Lovers of Zion movement.[1][2]

Biography

Rabbinowicz was one of the co-organizers of the Katowice Conference in 1884, was the first secretary of the Union of Hovevei Zion Associations in Russia. Rabbinowicz rejected Herzl's Zionist movement, and saw the main goal of the Hovevei Zion to target Herzl's followers in favor of immediate practical work in Palestine. Saul was a leading "Palestinophile" of German Jews and favored emancipation.[3] Rabbinowicz worked with Leon Pinsker.[4]

He translated Graetz's History of the Jews into Hebrew (Warsaw 1888).[5] This reached a wide audience and caused a considerable amount of controversy and criticism.[6]

He was a mentor of Ze'ev Yavetz.[7]

Saul Pinchas Rabbinowicz was the father of the socialist Sarah Rabinowitz, also known as Sonja Lerch. Another, older daughter named Lydia is described by Victor Klemperer as a “fanatical Zionist” who no longer wanted to associate with him after she found out that he had converted.[3]

Works

  • Dibre ha-Yamim li-Bene Yisrael, Warsaw, 1890, translation of Grätz's Geschichte der Juden into Hebrew
  • Moẓa'e Golah, a history of the exiled Spanish Jews and of their literature
  • R. Yom-Ṭob Lipman Zunz, Warsaw, 1896, an exhaustive biography of Zunz
  • a monograph on Zacharias Frankel (ib. 1898), and several minor works.

Jewish Encyclopedia bibliography

  • Sefer Zikkaron, pp. 103-104, Warsaw, 1890;
  • Zeitlin, Bibl. Post-Mendels. pp. 282-283;
  • Lippe, Bibliographisches Lexicon, ii. 223-225, v. 298-300;
  • Ha-Ẓefirah, 1880, Nos. 8-17.

References

  1. ^ Yedidya, Asaf (2023-12-14). "Between Peretz Smolenskin and Ahad Ha'am: The Forgotten Historiography of the Jewish National Movement Hibbat Zion". Nationalities Papers: 1–17. doi:10.1017/nps.2023.86. ISSN 0090-5992.
  2. ^ Tsahor, Dan (2023-07-04). The Book of the People: The Hebrew Encyclopedic Project and the National Self. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. ISBN 978-3-11-106302-7.
  3. ^ a b Gurganus, Albert Earle (2005). "Sarah Sonja Lerch, née Rabinowitz: The Sonja Irene L. of Toller's "Masse-Mensch"". German Studies Review. 28 (3): 607–620. ISSN 0149-7952. JSTOR 30038234.
  4. ^ Schoeps, Julius H. (2013-08-28). Pioneers of Zionism: Hess, Pinsker, Rülf: Messianism, Settlement Policy, and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-11-031472-4.
  5. ^ Schorsch, Ismar (1993). "The Last Jewish Generalist". AJS Review. 18 (1): 39–50. doi:10.1017/S0364009400004384. ISSN 0364-0094. JSTOR 1486797. S2CID 162730115.
  6. ^ Bergmann, Ari (2021-02-22), "Introduction", The Formation of the Talmud, De Gruyter, pp. 1–5, doi:10.1515/9783110709834-001, ISBN 978-3-11-070983-4
  7. ^ Yedidya, Asaf (2021-03-15). The Life and Thought of Ze'ev Jawitz: "To Cultivate a Hebrew Culture". Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-7936-3755-0.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; et al., eds. (1901–1906). "RABBINOWITZ, SAUL PHINEHAS". The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.