Jewish Hospital in Hamburg

The Jewish Hospital in Hamburg (German: Israelitisches Krankenhaus Hamburg)[1] is a Jewish medical institution in Hamburg, Germany. It is particularly renowned for its treatment of gastric and bowel cancer.

Jewish Hospital in Hamburg
Geography
LocationHamburg, Germany
Coordinates53.6058°N 9.9904°E / 53.6058; 9.9904
Services
Beds138
History
Opened17 June 1843
Links
Websitewww.ik-h.de
ListsHospitals in Germany

History

The Israelite Hospital of Hamburg opened in 1843.[1] The city council donated land in the St. Pauli suburb, and building costs were entirely funded by Salomon Heine, a local Jewish banker.[2] He made two stipulations regarding his 80,000 Mark donation: The hospital should be named for his late wife Betty, who died in 1837; and a Personal lectern should be designated for him in the in-house synagogue.[3]

A poem by Heinrich Heine, the nephew of Salomon Heine, was dedicated to the Hospital following Salomon Heine's death, whose first verse is:

Ein Hospital für arme, kranke Juden,
Für Menschenkinder, welche dreifach elend,
Behaftet mit den bösen drei Gebresten,
Mit Armut, Körperschmerz und Judentume!

A hospital for Jews who’re sick and needy,
For those unhappy threefold sons of sorrow,
Afflicted by the three most dire misfortunes
Of poverty, disease, and Judaism.
(translation by Edgar Alfred Bowring[4])

References
  1. "The Jewish Hospital in Hamburg". 1938Projekt. 29 May 2018. Retrieved 28 January 2020.
  2. Liedtke, Rainer (1998). Jewish Welfare in Hamburg and Manchester, C. 1850–1914. Clarendon Press. p. 126.
  3. Carlebach, Joseph; Gillis-Carlebach, Miriam (2009). Jewish Everyday Life As Human Resistance 1939–1941: Chief Rabbi Dr. Joseph Zvi Carlebach and the Hamburg-Altona Jewish Communities. Peter Lang. p. 145.
  4. "The Poems of Heine (Complete)". Retrieved 28 February 2021.
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