Samuel Baeck, also spelled Samuel Bäck ( he, שמואל בק, born
Boskowitz,
Moravia, April 3, 1834 – died
Lissa, May 11, 1912) was a German rabbi and father of
Leo Baeck.
His father, Nathan Baeck, was rabbi in
Kromau, Moravia; his grandfather, Abraham, rabbi in
Holitsch,
Hungary. Samuel Baeck married Eva Placzek (1840–1926), the daughter of
Abraham Placzek, chief rabbi of Moravia.
After being educated in the public schools of Kromau and at the
Talmudic schools of Nikolsburg (Moravia) – now
Mikulov – and
Pressburg
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, Baeck studied at the
University of Vienna, continuing his Talmudic studies under R. Horwitz. After receiving his diploma as rabbi from the chief rabbi Placzek of
Boskovice, he was appointed rabbi in
Böhmisch Leipa, and was in 1864 called as rabbi to the celebrated community of
Lissa, province of
Posen. He was a member of the municipal school committee and of the "Waisenrat", instructor in the Jewish religion at the gymnasium, and a delegate to the
Deutsch-Israelitischen Gemeindebund. He was the first to advocate with success the introduction of the teaching of the Jewish religion in the colleges of
Prussia.
Published works
* ''Inder und Hebräer'' (Indians and Hebrews);
* ''Erzählungen und Religionssätze der Heiligen Schrift'', Lissa, 1875, 2d ed. 1886;
* ''Systematische Religionssätze der Heiligen Schrift'', ib. 1875;
* ''Geschichte des Judischen Volkes und Seiner Literatur vom Babylonischen Exile bis auf die Gegenwart'' (History and Literature of the Jewish People from the Babylonian Exile to the Present Day) ib. 1878, 2d ed., 1894;
* ''Die Halachistische und Responsen Literatur, die Literatur der Darshanim, Sittenlehrer, und Apologeten'', in Winter and Wünsche, ''Jüdische Literatur'', vols. ii. and iii.
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Czech Orthodox rabbis
19th-century German rabbis
Czech people of Hungarian descent
1834 births
1912 deaths