Ismar Elbogen (September 1, 1874 – August 1, 1943) was a German rabbi, scholar and historian.

Biography

Yitzhak Moshe (Itamar) Elbogen was born in Posen. He was taught by his uncle,

Jacob Levy Jacob Meyer Levy (Hebrew: יעקב מאיר לוי ''Ya'akov Me'ir Levi''; May 14, 1894 – September 8, 1956) was an Israeli educator, historian, translator and writer. Biography Born to Moshe Levy and Masia-Leah (nee Barmack) in the Ukrain ...

, author of the "'", and then attended the gymnasium and the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau. He earned his doctorate from the Breslau University and was ordained as a rabbi in 1899.

Academic career

Elbogen served as a lecturer on Biblical exegesis and

Jewish history Jewish history is the history of the Jews, and their nation, religion, and culture, as it developed and interacted with other peoples, religions, and cultures. Although Judaism as a religion first appears in Greek records during the Hellenisti ...

at the Collegio Rabbinico Italiano in

Florence Florence ( ; it, Firenze ) is a city in Central Italy and the capital city of the Tuscany Regions of Italy, region. It is the most populated city in Tuscany, with 383,083 inhabitants in 2016, and over 1,520,000 in its metropolitan area.Bilan ...

. In 1902 he became

privat-docent ''Privatdozent'' (for men) or ''Privatdozentin'' (for women), abbreviated PD, P.D. or Priv.-Doz., is an academic title conferred at some European universities, especially in German-speaking countries, to someone who holds certain formal qualific ...

at the

Lehranstalt für die Wissenschaft des Judentums "''Wissenschaft des Judentums''" (Literally in German the expression means "Science of Judaism"; more recently in the US it started to be rendered as "Jewish Studies" or "Judaic Studies," a wide academic field of inquiry in American Universities) ...

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and List of cities in Germany by population, largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's List of cities in the European Union by population within ci ...

. He fled Nazi Germany in 1938, and taught at the Jewish Institute of Religion in New York, the Jewish Theological Seminary and Hebrew Union College. He is the author of ''Jewish Liturgy: A Comprehensive History''. Originally published in German in 1913, this book was updated in a number of subsequent Hebrew editions. The latest Hebrew edition was translated into English by Raymond P. Scheindlin, and published by the Jewish Publication Society in 1993. This work covers the entire range of Jewish liturgical development, beginning with the early cornerstones of the siddur; through the evolution of the medieval piyyut tradition; to modern prayerbook reform in Germany and the United States. It is the most thorough academic study of the Jewish liturgy ever written.

Published works

* "''Der Tractatus de Intellectus Emendatione und Seine Stellung Innerhalb der Philosophie

Spinoza Baruch (de) Spinoza (born Bento de Espinosa; later as an author and a correspondent ''Benedictus de Spinoza'', anglicized to ''Benedict de Spinoza''; 24 November 1632 – 21 February 1677) was a Dutch philosopher of Portuguese-Jewish origin, ...

's''", Breslau, 1898 * "''In Commemorazione di S. D. Luzzatto''", Florence, 1901 * "Die Neueste Construction der Jüdischen Geschichte", Breslau, 1902.

References

External links

Brief biography from the Gelman Library, George Washington University

Works by and about Ismar Elbogen in University Library JCS Frankfurt am Main: Digital Collections Judaica

Ismar Elbogen Collection
at the Leo Baeck Institute, New York
''Jewish Encyclopedia'': "Elbogen, Ismar"
by Isidore Singer (1906). {{DEFAULTSORT:Elbogen, Ismar 1874 births 1943 deaths German male non-fiction writers 20th-century German rabbis Jewish historians People from Ostrzeszów County