Dr Aron Eisenstein, cieszyński rabin, historyk, syjonista

• Authors: Spyra Janusz

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Dr. Aron Eisenstein – Cieszyn Rabbi, Historian and Zionist

• Languages of publication: PL EN

Abstracts

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Aron Eisenstein (1902–1945) served as the rabbi of the religious community in Cieszyn from 1931, and was the first spiritual leader of the local Jewish community raised in the Polish spirit. He was born in the village of Stasiowa Wola near Stanisławów, studied history at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, then at the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Wrocław, where he also attended the Jewish theological seminary of the Fraenkel Foundation. He completed his historical studies at the University of Vienna with a doctorate in history in 1929. In the first years of his work in Cieszyn, he was still involved in historical research, writing a doctoral thesis on the medieval origins of the old Jewish cemetery and the Jewish kehilla in Cieszyn. Above all, however, he became involved in politics as an active supporter of Zionism-revisionism, especially in 1938–1939. The Germans issued a warrant against him, therefore and at the beginning of the war he left Cieszyn with the Polish army. He went missing or died in unknown circumstances in 1945.

• Publisher: Polskie Towarzystwo Historyczne Oddział w Cieszynie
• Journal: Pamiętnik Cieszyński
• Year: 2017
• Volume: T. 22
• Pages: 31-49

Contributors

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Spyra Janusz

• Akademia im. Jana Długosza w Częstochowie