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Dr. Michael Yechiel Sachs (1808 Groß-Glogau, Silesia -1864 Berlin), worked as rabbi, preacher, scholar, and translator. He earned a PhD from the University of Jena in 1836, and was appointed rabbi in Prague in 1836, and in Berlin in 1844. He was the first university-educated rabbi to be employed by the Berlin Jewish community, starting a trend in other German congregations. Sachs worked for Frankel's "Zeitschrift für die religiösen Interessen des Judentums" (ZRIJ), and supported the conservative theological assembly --

Reference Code
P41
Dates
1827-1895; 1937-1959
Consists of
36 files..
Languages
German; Hebrew; lat;
Description
The collection consists of private correspondence and some personal documents, as well as sermons, correspondence, papers, manuscripts and prints in his capacity as rabbi in Prague and Berlin, among them correspondence with Moritz Veit.
Title Sachs, Michael.
Additional Titles Zeitschrift für die religiösen Interessen des Judentums
Contributors Leopold,Zunz 1794-1886
Moritz,Veit 1808-1864
Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft
Notes CAHJP P123 Eckstein/Freudenthal (Jakob Freudenthal's wife Therese was Michael Sachs' daughter)
P47 Briefe im Nachlaß Moritz Veit
NLI system no 990000421100205171 (Heb. 8 904-905 ) for scholary notes from Sachs
Publications See Margit Schad, "Rabbiner Michael Sachs: Judentum als höhere Lebensanschauung, Hildesheim, 2007, 463 pp
See article by David Kaufmann, https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/ADB:Sachs,_Michael_(%C3%9Cbersetzer)
Host Item Sachs, Michael - Private Collection
Level of Description Fonds Record
Biographical summary Michael Yechiel Sachs (1808 Groß-Glogau, Silesia -1864 Berlin), son of Naftali-Juda Sachs, worked as rabbi, preacher, scholar, translator. Sachs studied philology with Boeckh, Schleiermacher and Hegel in Berlin, and was one of the first of Jewish graduates of the modern universities. He earned a PhD from the University of Jena in 1836, and was appointed rabbi in Prague in 1836. In 1837 Sachs married Henriette (Gittel) Lehfeldt (1816-1878), daughter of the landowner Elkan Levi from Glogau, and was appointed rabbi in Berlin in 1844. He was the first university-educated rabbi to be employed by the Berlin Jewish community, starting a trend in other German congregations. Sachs worked for Frankel's "Zeitschrift für die religiösen Interessen des Judentums" (ZRIJ), and supported the conservative theological assembly.
In Berlin, Sachs began instituting minor reforms, including the use of a choir during services, a few German prayers and hymns, and German sermons. The congregation’s orthodox members opposed these changes but did appreciate Sachs’s eloquent sermons, in which he denounced ideological reforms and preached adherence to Jewish law. The crucial point in Sachs’s opposition to the direction of Reform Judaism came to a climax over the issue of whether to use an organ in Jewish services. Rather than concede to such use, Sachs decided to retire from the rabbinate.
Exemplifying the modern rabbi, Sachs was both a scholar and a preacher (Prediger), and published two volumes of Sermons (Predigten, 1866-1891). He is best known for his work on Hebrew poetry, "Religiöse Poesie der Juden in Spanien" (1845)
Sachs co-operated with Leopold Zunz in a new translation of the Bible, and completed a poetic German-language translation of the Machzor. Another very popular work by Sachs contains poetical paraphrases of Rabbinic legends "Stimmen vom Jordan und Euphrat" (1853).
Ownership history Gesamtarchiv
part of Sachs' papers were deposited by Jacob and Therese Freudenthal's granddaughter Therese Meyer at the CAHJP in 1977.
National Library system number 990043214060205171
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