Mordechai Breuer (1918–2007) was a German-Jewish historian and writer.
Background and Family
Breuer was born in
Frankfurt am Main
Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , "Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on its na ...
(Germany) to
Isaac Breuer
Isaac Breuer ( he, יצחק ברויאר; 1883–1946) was a rabbi in the German Neo-Orthodoxy movement of his maternal grandfather Samson Raphael Hirsch, and was the first president of Poalei Agudat Yisrael.
Biography
Isaac Breuer was born in ...
and his wife Jenny Breuer (née Eisenmann) in 1918. He had four siblings:
Yaakov
Jacob (; ; ar, يَعْقُوب, Jacob in Islam, Yaʿqūb; gr, Ἰακώβ, Iakṓb), later given the name Israel (name), Israel, is regarded as a Patriarchs (Bible), patriarch of the Israelites and is an important figure in Abrahamic religi ...
;
Ulla
Ulla is a given name. It is short for Ursula in German-speaking countries and Ulrika/Ulrikke in Scandinavian countries. As of 31 December 2011, there were 61,043 females named Ulla in Sweden, with the name being most popular during the 1930s an ...
, Tzipora, and Simeon. The family originated in
Frankfurt
Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , "Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on its na ...
but left for
Israel
Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...
in 1936.
Work
Breuer wrote extensively on history, particularly German Jewish history. His works include ''Modernity Within Tradition: The Social History of Orthodox Jewry in Imperial Germany,'' (Columbia University Press: 1992) and ''The Torah-im-Derekh-Eretz of S.R. Hirsch'' (1970).
References
* German-Jewish history in modern times, Volume 1, By Michael A. Meyer, Mordechai Breuer, Michael Graetz
* Marc B. Shapiro
Obituary for Professor Mordechai Breuer zt”l the Seforim Blog
* פיוטים בביצועו, מתוך אתר "פיוט"
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1918 births
2007 deaths
20th-century Israeli historians
Jewish historians
Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to Mandatory Palestine
German people of Hungarian-Jewish descent
Writers from Frankfurt
Burials at the Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives
20th-century German historians