Joseph Rabinowitz
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Joseph Rabinowitz, also Rabinovich (23 September 1837 – 17 May 1899) was a member of a Jewish Christian congregation in Russia.
, Bessarabia
, Russian Empire
, and lived in Kishinev
, now the capital of the Moldova
. He died in Kishinev on 17 May 1899.
Biography
Rabinowitz was born on September 23, 1837 in RezinaRezina
Rezina is a city in Moldova and the capital of Rezina District. Three villages are administered by the city: Boşerniţa, Ciorna and Stohnaia.-Geography:...
, Bessarabia
Bessarabia
Bessarabia is a historical term for the geographic region in Eastern Europe bounded by the Dniester River on the east and the Prut River on the west....
, Russian Empire
Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917. It was the successor to the Tsardom of Russia and the predecessor of the Soviet Union...
, and lived in Kishinev
Chisinau
Chișinău is the capital and largest municipality of Moldova. It is also its main industrial and commercial centre and is located in the middle of the country, on the river Bîc...
, now the capital of the Moldova
Moldova
Moldova , officially the Republic of Moldova is a landlocked state in Eastern Europe, located between Romania to the West and Ukraine to the North, East and South. It declared itself an independent state with the same boundaries as the preceding Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1991, as part...
. He died in Kishinev on 17 May 1899.
Works
- Descriptions of Russia. In: 'Yearbook for the history of Jews and Judaism, Institute for the Promoting of Hebrew Literature (ed.), Leipzig 1860-1869
- Two sermons in The House of God in Bethlehem Kishinev held. Publisher Dörffling & Franke, Leipzig 1885
- Franz DelitzschFranz DelitzschFranz Delitzsch was a German Lutheran theologian and Hebraist. Born in Leipzig, he held the professorship of theology at the University of Rostock from 1846 to 1850, at the University of Erlangen until 1867, and after that at the University of Leipzig until his death...
(ed.): Documents the southern Russian Christianity movement. Autobiography and Sermons of Joseph Rabinovich, Leipzig 1887
Further reading
- I. Fauerholdt: Joseph Rabinowitsch. A prophetic figure of the modern Judaism, in: Small writings on the Jewish mission, Volume 8, Leipzig 1914
- Kai Kjaer-Hansen: Josef Rabinowitsch og den messianske bevægelse. Forlaget Okay-Bog, Århus 1988th - English translation: Joseph Rabinowitz and the messianic movement. The Heart of Jewish Christianity, Handsel Press [u.a.], Edinburgh 1995, ISBN 1-87182-837-6 and ISBN 0-8028-0859-X