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Akiba Israel Wertheimer (1778-1835) was the first Chief Rabbi of Altona and Schleswig-Holstein.:〔(Wertheimer family database )〕 == Life == Akiba (or Ekiva or Akiva) Wertheimer was born in about 1778 in Wrocław, Poland, the son of Torah scholar Avigdor Wertheimer (?-1826) who came from the Prussian partition area of Poland. He went to the Talmudic academy of Akiba Eger, the most important in Mirosławiec. He came with his parents to Altona, now a suburb of Hamburg but which was then an independent city under the administration of the Danish monarchy, where in 1805 he was a Melamed (teacher of Torah and Talmud school). In 1806 he was appointed Rabbi in Moisling and Lübeck. Due to the expulsion of the Jews in Lübeck and poverty in the Moisling Jewish community, in 1816 he moved to Altona where he remained until his death. In 1819 he opposed the Hamburg-based reformers of Judaism and banned the use of the Jewish prayer book in the German language.〔(''The origins of the Aron family'' p6 )〕 In 1823 he was appointed the first Chief Rabbi of Altona and Schleswig-Holstein. For the Altona rabbinate, he was successor to Rabbi Mendel Hirsch Frankfurter,〔(''Encyclopedia of Modern Jewish Culture'' Edited by Glenda Abramson, Routledge, 2005 )〕 the grandfather of Samson Raphael Hirsch. Akiba Wertheimer died in Altona in 1835, and was succeeded as Chief Rabbi by Jacob Ettlinger. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Akiba Israel Wertheimer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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