<font size="3" face="Arial">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.</font>...<br><br><br>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.<br>
-- <br>Kol Tuv / Best Regards,<br>RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com<br>see: <a href="http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/">http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/</a>