How to Pronounce Abraham Kohn
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Jan 01, 1807 Zalužany, Central Bohemian Region, Czech Republic Died on 07 Sep 1848 (aged 41)
Czech rabbi
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About Abraham Kohn
- Abraham Kohn (June 13, 1806 in Zalužany, Bohemia – September 7, 1848 at Lemberg, Galicia) was the liberal Chief Rabbi of Lemberg, and was poisoned to death. In 1828, he entered the University of Prague, where he applied himself to philosophy, while devoting his spare time to rabbinical studies.
- In July, 1833, he was appointed rabbi of Hohenems, Vorarlberg, where he remained for eleven years.
- Besides organizing various charitable societies, he greatly improved the educational facilities for the young, and introduced many reforms into the public service.
- In May, 1844, he accepted the rabbinate of Lemberg.
- Here in a comparatively short time he opened a well-equipped "Normalschule" of which he was the superintendent, dedicated a new reform temple, abolished many old abuses, and did not rest until the degrading tax on kosher meat and Sabbath candles, imposed upon the Jewish community by the government, was removed. In 1902 the Lviv/Lemberg Jewish community commissioned a portrait of Abraham Kohn.
- The posthumous portrait was painted by a Lviv-based Jewish painter Wilhelm Wachtel (1875-1952).
- Presently this portrait is in the collection of the Voznytsky Lviv National Gallery in Lviv, Ukraine.
