Akiba Eisenberg

Dr. Akiba Eisenberg (20 September 1908 – 8 April 1983) was a former Chief Rabbi of Vienna.

Dr. Rabbi
Akiba Eisenberg
TitleChief Rabbi of Vienna
Personal
Born30 September 1908
Vác, Austria-Hungary
Died8 April 1983(1983-04-08) (aged 74)
Vienna, Austria
ReligionJudaism
SynagogueSeitenstättengasse

Biography

Eisenberg was born in Vác, near Budapest.[1][2][3] During World War II, he survived by hiding with his brother in the outlying area with non-Jewish farmers.[1]

In 1948 Eisenberg became the Chief Rabbi of Vienna, after having served as the rabbi of Győr, Hungary.[4][5] He would establish a Beth Din with the help of the Jewish Agency and advocate as a Zionist while serving this role.[6][7] He would also be the target of an antisemitic terrorist attack, when a pipe bomb was detonated outside of his home on 4 February 1982.[8][9]

Eisenberg, working from Seitenstettengasse, the only synagogue in Vienna not destroyed by the Nazis, began Jewish education within the city.[10] In 1969, he was given the title 'Doctor,' by the President of Austria for his work in education.[4]

Eisenberg died on 8 April 1983, at the age of 74, from heart failure, in Vienna.[4][11] After his death, his son Paul Chaim succeeded him as the Chief Rabbi.[5][7]

References
  1. Eisenberg, Paul Chaim (2021-09-13). Lachen, Weinen, Hoffnung schenken: Wenn der Rebbe aus seinem Leben erzählt (in German). Christian Brandstätter Verlag. ISBN 978-3-7106-0559-8.
  2. Kunstat, Miroslav; Sebek, Jaroslav (2019). Kirche, Religion und Politik in Österreich und in der Tschechoslowakei im 20. Jahrhundert (in German). LIT Verlag Münster. ISBN 978-3-643-50812-6.
  3. Bolchover, David (2018-01-15). Béla Guttmann: De Sobrevivente do Holocausto a Glória do Benfica (in Brazilian Portuguese). Leya. ISBN 978-989-741-884-6.
  4. "Akiba Eisenberg Dead at 74; Austrian Chief Rabbi 35 Years". The New York Times. 1983-04-08. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-02-01.
  5. Mittelmann, Hanni; Wallas, Armin A. (2015-03-10). Österreich-Konzeptionen und jüdisches Selbstverständnis: Identitäts-Transfigurationen im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert (in German). Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. ISBN 978-3-11-096595-7.
  6. Rabinowicz, Harry M.; Aleichem, Cholem; Rabinowicz, Harry; Rabinowicz, Tzvi (1982). Hasidism and the State of Israel. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. ISBN 978-0-8386-3034-1.
  7. LWF Documentation. Lutheran University Press. 2001. ISBN 978-3-906706-85-6.
  8. Segev, Tom (2012). Simon Wiesenthal: The Life and Legends. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-8052-1208-2.
  9. Mickolus, Edward F.; Sandler, Todd; Murdock, Jean Marie (1989). International Terrorism in the 1980s: 1980-1983. Iowa State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8138-0024-0.
  10. Adler, Cyrus; Szold, Henrietta (1954). American Jewish Year Book. Jewish Publication Society of America.
  11. Survey of Jewish Affairs. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 1983. ISBN 978-0-8386-3244-4.


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