Herman Ezekhiel Kaufmann

Per Shlomo Freilich Rav in Ugoslovia prior to War Came from Gorlice / Duchla Had a PHD Wrote two booklets - Wrote a thesis on Yiov and the Talmud; the other about his visit to Palestine; They are in the Hebrew University library.

He was an ardent zionist.

He once came to visit Shea Kaufman they gave him honor when he visited in Gorlice. He was surprised to hear that because he was a modern Rav and the family Chasidim.

District Chief Rabbi Dr. Herman Ezekiel Kaufmann (Bzezov, Poland, 1865 – Zagreb, 9/5/1932) one of the most important Slavonian rabbis, rabbi in Virovitica 1894 – 1932. He comes from an old pious rabbinic family, the son of Jakov Jehuda Kaufmann and Witta née Landau from Dukla. Poland. His mother's family included many famous rabbis in Galicia, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Germany for generations. He began his Jewish education in a heder in Dukla, Poland, and Talmudic studies in Brody, Ukraine. He studied philosophy in Vienna, where he also attended Bet Hamidrash with the famous rabbis Adolf Jellinek, I.H. Weiss and Meier Friedmann. As a young philosophy student in 1889, he wrote the first treatise Der hebräische und griechische Gottesgedanke. With this, he attracted the attention of the famous Viennese preacher Adolf Jellinek, who, before he finished his studies, got him a preaching position at the Wieden Margareten Synagogue in Vienna. In 1891 he continued to study history and philosophy in Munich, and in 1893 he spent three semesters in Giessen, Germany, where he was promoted in 1893 to the honorary doctorate of philosophy. He returned the same year to Vienna, where he prepared for the rabbinical exam and received a rabbinical diploma in Talmud Torah in Vienna. From 20.5.1894 he was an auctioneer in Virovitica, where he served until his death. He taught religious education in the local elementary school and high school, and taught Hebrew. Since the 1890s, he has been engaged in journalistic work and published more than 500 discussions, reviews and reports in various magazines. As early as 1889, he wrote the first treatise Der hebräische und griechische Gottesgedanke, and among the more important treatises are The Use of the Book of Hide in the Haggadah, The Metaphysical System of Mozes Cordoveros in the Kabbalah, The Science of the Solitude of Metaphysics in the Kabbalah, Understanding the Science of Immortality in Judaism and the Teaching of Christ. He published numerous contributions and works in Dr. Bloch's oesterreichische Wochenschrift (Vienna), Allgemeine Israel. Wochenschrift (Berlin), Dr. Kurreins Jüdische Chronik, Der Israelit (Mainz). Der Israelit (Budapest), Die Neue Nationalzeitung (Vienna), Die Welt (Vienna), Die Ungarische Wochensehrift (Budapest), Die Jüdische Volksstimme (Brno), Jüdisches Volksblatt (Novi Sad), Židovska Smotra (Zagreb and Osijek), Jew ( Zagreb) etc. In 1906, he founded the Jewish literary society "Zerubabel" in Virovitica. He was the forerunner of Zionism, and in 1907, as one of the first Jews from Croatia, space, visited Palestine, about which he published a brochure. He was also a member of the Federal Council of the Union of Zionists of Yugoslavia and a participant in many Zionist conferences. For some time, he held the position of president of the Union of Rabbis of Yugoslavia, based in Vršac. , was posthumously entered in the Golden Book of Keren Kajemet. He also excelled in charity work. In 1916, for example, he published the printed sermon "Die Schuldtragenden", the proceeds from the sale of which went to help poor Jews in Galicia. In 1901, he married Jeanetta Ernestina née Weidenfeld. They had a daughter Dr. Angela Kaufmann. He died in the Lavoslav Schwarz Foundation House in Zagreb, and was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Virovitica on 10 May 1932. ,