FRAENKEL, LEVI BEN SAUL

FRAENKEL, LEVI BEN SAUL
FRAENKEL, LEVI BEN SAUL (Schaulsohn; 1761–1815), apostate member of the rabbinical fraenkel family. In 1806 he was nominated by the authorities assistant of the breslau bet din and Oberlandesrabbiner for Silesia (excluding Breslau), despite local objections. A year later he left the city, addressing   an open letter to the community in which he acclaimed the french sanhedrin , advocated the unification of all religions, and expressed messianic hopes centered around napoleon . His letter caused consternation. In the same year in Paris he embraced Catholicism and thereafter wandered throughout Europe, until his death in extreme poverty and neglect in a Jewish hospital in Frankfurt. He wrote a few mystical works. -BIBLIOGRAPHY: M. Brann, in: Jubelschrift … H. Graetz (1887), 266–76; A. Freimann, in: ZHB, 4 (1900), 159. ADD. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Biographisches Handbuch der Rabbiner, 1 (2004), 323.

Encyclopedia Judaica. 1971.

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