Albert Katz
BornAbraham Albert Katz
(1858-07-17)17 July 1858
Lodz, Congress Poland
Died16 December 1923(1923-12-16) (aged 65)
Berlin, Weimar Republic
Resting placeWeißensee Cemetery[1]
Pen nameIsh ha-Ruaḥ[2]
LanguageGerman, Hebrew
SpouseBertha Braunstein

Albert Katz (Hebrew: אברהם אלברט כ״ץ; 17 July 1858 – 16 December 1923), also known by the pen name Ish ha-Ruaḥ (Hebrew: איש הרוח), was a Polish-born rabbi, writer, and journalist.

Biography

Albert Katz was born in Lodz, and studied at the yeshivot of Lublin and Vilna before moving to Berlin in 1881. He served as a rabbi in Fürstenwalde from April 1883 to 1886, and for Congregation Ohel Yitzḥak in Berlin from April 1886 to 1887. From 1887 he devoted himself exclusively to writing.

Together with Willy Bambus [de], Katz founded the periodical Serubabel (1886–88), which promoted Jewish settlement in Israel.[2] In 1890 he was hired as editor of the Allgemeine Zeitung des Judentums, eventually becoming its chief editor in 1919.[3] He was also one of the founders of the Vereine für jüdische Literatur und Geschichte of Berlin, and of the Verband der Literatur-Vereine in Hanover (1894), and served as the latter's secretary.[4]

He died on 16 December 1923 at his apartment in Pankow, Berlin, and was buried at the Weißensee Cemetery[1]

Works

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore (1904). "Katz, Albert". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 7. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 452.

  1. ^ a b Simon, Hermann (1993). "Albert Katz, ein Pankower jüdischer Schriftsteller". Jüdisches Leben in Pankow. Eine zeitgeschichtliche Dokumentation. Berlin. pp. 47 ff. ISBN 978-3-89468-099-2.((cite book)): CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  2. ^ a b Gelber, Nathan Michael (2007). "Katz, Alberg". In Berenbaum, Michael; Skolnik, Fred (eds.). Encyclopaedia Judaica (2nd ed.). Detroit: Macmillan Reference. ISBN 978-0-02-866097-4.
  3. ^ a b Glasenapp, Gabriele von; Horch, Hans Otto (2005). Ghettoliteratur: Eine Dokumentation zur deutsch-jüdischen Literaturgeschichte des 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhunderts [Ghetto Literature: A Documentation of German-Jewish Literary History in the 19th and Early 20th century]. Conditio Judaica (in German). Vol. 53. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag. pp. 924–926. doi:10.1515/9783110934168. ISBN 3-484-65153-9.
  4. ^ Katznelson, J. L.; Ginzburg, Baron D., eds. (1911). "Катц, Альберт"  [Katz, Albert]. Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron (in Russian). Vol. 9. St. Petersburg: Brockhaus & Efron. p. 383.
  5. ^ Greenstone, Julius H. (January 1924). "Albert Katz's Homiletic Essays". The Jewish Quarterly Review. 14 (3): 385–387. doi:10.2307/1451726. JSTOR 1451726.
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