Joseph Breuer, known as Yosef Breuer was a rabbi and community leader in Germany and the United States.
15 Facts About Joseph Breuer
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Joseph Breuer was rabbi of one of the large Jewish synagogues founded by German-Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi oppression that had settled in Washington Heights, New York.
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Joseph Breuer was born in 1882 in Papa, Hungary, to the local rabbi Solomon Breuer and Sophie Breuer nee Hirsch, who was the youngest daughter of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch of Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
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Joseph Breuer studied at the Torah Lehranstalt until 1903, when he was awarded semicha, and in 1905 he completed university studies at the University of Strasbourg with a PhD on the work of legal scholar Anselm von Feuerbach.
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Joseph Breuer became a teacher at the Realschule and lecturer at the Torah Lehranstalt.
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Joseph Breuer married Rika Eisenmann of Antwerp, granddaughter of Eliezer Liepman Philip Prins in 1911.
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Bernard Revel offered Joseph Breuer a teaching position in his institution, which he brusquely turned down.
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Joseph Breuer reportedly said that he would rather "clean the streets".
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In New York, Joseph Breuer took the initiative to start a congregation with the numerous German refugees in Washington Heights, which would closely follow the morale and customs of its "spiritual ancestor" in Frankfurt.
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Joseph Breuer founded a teachers' seminary for women that would be renamed the Rika Breuer Teachers' Seminary after his wife's death.
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Joseph Breuer died in 1980, survived by his children Marc, Jacob, Samson, Rosy Bondi, Edith Silverman, Sophie Gutmann, Hanna Schwalbe and Meta Bechhofer.
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Joseph Breuer was well known for his involvement in setting up an Orthodox Jewish infrastructure in post-World War II America.
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Joseph Breuer wrote several books, including translations of and commentaries on the Biblical books of Jeremiah and Ezekiel; English translations of these appeared after his death.
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Joseph Breuer can be considered the main post-war representative of the Torah im Derech Eretz movement in the United States.
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Joseph Breuer's influence was mainly due to his public speeches and his indefatigable work on the community's services.