[Avodah] Who Was Rabbi Nobel Anyway?

[Richard Wolpoe]

114. Nehemiah Anton Nobel (1871–1922) was a "German Orthodox rabbi and
religious leader,...the son of Joseph Nobel (1840–1917), After being brought
up in Halberstadt, where his father was Klausrabbinner, Nehemiah Nobel
studied at the Berlin Rabbiner-Seminar. He served in the rabbinate of
Cologne from 1896 to 1899, and then for several months in Koenigsberg. From
there he went to the University of Marburg to study under Hermann Cohen, who
had a great influence upon him, although they did not agree about Zionism.
Nobel's activity in the Zionist Movement began in Cologne. He was on close
terms with Theodor Herzl and David Wolffsohn and was one of the original
founders of the Zionist Federation in Germany. He also took part in the
founding convention of the Mizrachi movement in Pressburg (1904). Nobel's
Zionist activity, motivated by his conviction that religion and nationhood
are organically connected in Judaism, stood out in contrast to the united
anti-Zionist front of Orthodox and liberal rabbis in Germany at the time.
>From 1901 he served in the rabbinate of Leipzig, from 1906 in the rabbinate
of Hamburg, and finally, from 1910, in the rabbinate of Frankfort, where he
succeeded Marcus Horovitz. There he prompted closer contacts with Judaism
and Zionism in circles that had been drifting away from Judaism. His sermons
and preachings, in which he was extraordinarily impressive, tackled topical
problems. He influenced such Jewish thinkers as Ernst Simon, Oscar Wolfsberg
(Y. Aviad), F. Rosenzweig, and M. Buber....


Note the Roedleheim post-WWI prayer for the Government was composed by Rabbi
Nobel.  He would have been a brilliant  Modern Orthodox rabbi by today's
standards in the USA.
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Kol Tuv / Best Regards,
RabbiRichWolpoe at Gmail.com
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