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David Friedländer
David Friedländer (sometimes spelled Friedlander; 6 December 1750, Königsberg – 25 December 1834, Berlin) was a German banker, writer and communal leader. Life Communal leader and author in Berlin, a pioneer of the practice and ideology of assimilation, and a forerunner of Reform Judaism. Born in Koenigsberg, the son of a "protected Jew," Joachim Moses Friedlaender, a wholesale merchant, David settled in Berlin in 1770, and in 1776 established a silk factory there. As an expert in his field, he was appointed counselor of the state Commission of Inquiry into the textile industry. In 1791 he forwarded a memorandum in the name of the manufacturers, advocating changes in the economic system against excessive government supervision over industry and the granting of protective tariffs to individual manufacturers. However, his interests ranged far beyond his business activities. Entering Moses Mendelssohn's circle at the age of 21, Friedlaender absorbed Mendelssohn's ideas and beca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedländer 1834
Friedländer (Friedlander, or Friedlaender) is a toponymic surname derived from any of German places named Friedland (other), Friedland. The surname may refer to: People Friedländer * Adolf Albrecht Friedländer (1870–1949), Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist * Adolph Friedländer (1851–1904), German lithographer, printer of circus posters and magazines * Albert Friedländer (1888–1966), German bank director, later French and Swiss author * Benedict Friedlaender (1866–1908), German sexologist, sociologist, and physicist * Carl Friedländer (1847–1887), German pathologist and microbiologist * David Friedländer (1750–1834), German writer, manufacturer * Eitan Friedlander (born 1958), Israeli Olympic sailor * Friedrich Friedländer (1825–1901), Czech-German Jewish painter * Gerhart Friedlander (1916–2009), German chemist * György Szepesi-Friedländer (1922), Hungarian radio personality and sports executive * Johnny Friedlaender (1912–1992), graphi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abraham Teller
Abraham (originally Abram) is the common Hebrew patriarch of the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In Judaism, he is the founding father who began the covenantal relationship between the Jewish people and God; in Christianity, he is the spiritual progenitor of all believers, whether Jewish or non-Jewish; and in Islam, he is a link in the chain of Islamic prophets that begins with Adam and culminates in Muhammad. Abraham is also revered in other Abrahamic religions such as the Baháʼí Faith and the Druze faith. The story of the life of Abraham, as told in the narrative of the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible, revolves around the themes of posterity and land. He is said to have been called by God to leave the house of his father Terah and settle in the land of Canaan, which God now promises to Abraham and his progeny. This promise is subsequently inherited by Isaac, Abraham's son by his wife Sarah, while Isaac's half-brother Ishmael is also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
History Of The Jews In Königsberg
The history of the Jews in Königsberg reaches back to the 1530s. By the 20th century Königsberg had one of the larger Jewish communities within the German Reich. The city's Jewish community was eliminated by emigration and then The Holocaust during World War II. Early history The first Jews in Königsberg, then capital of Ducal Prussia, a vassal duchy of the Kingdom of Poland (now Kaliningrad, Russia), were the doctors Isaak May (1538) and Michel Abraham (1541) at the court of Albert, Duke of Prussia. In 1680 or 1682 Frederick William, the Great Elector, allowed the city's Jewish residents to rent space for prayer at the Eulenburgsches Haus (later Hotel Deutsches Haus) on Burgfreiheit's Kehrwiederstraße (later Theaterstraße). Most were merchants from the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. A permanent Jewish community began to develop in Königsberg only by 1704, when a Jewish cemetery was designated. Jewish students were first admitted to the University of Königsberg in 17 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heinrich Josefsohn
Heinrich Josefsohn (Hebrew: צבי יאזאפזאהן; ) was a Hebrew Bible translator, poet, dramatist from Prague. He was member of the Biurists and the Me'assfim, continuing the Hebrew literary work of Moses Mendelssohn and Hebrew literary figures in Berlin. Josefson was more religious in philosophy than his peers, specifically David Friedländer, Isaac Satanow and Herz Homberg. He composed a manuscript of a Mendelssohn-style Be'ur on the Book of Isaiah with the Judeo-German Bible translations, translation of Meir Obernik, Meir Obornik, censored and signed by Carolus (Karl) Fischer, a Semitic scholar and censor in Prague. Josefson criticizes David Friedländer, Friedländer harshly in the introduction to the manuscript; unfortunately, this manuscript was never brought to print, despite intentions and work to do so (possibly through repression). This manuscript today is at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries cited as ''UPenn CAJS Rar Ms. 537''. Josefsohn appears to have bee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
