Kisch, Alexander, 1848-1917

LC control no.	no2013050779
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Personal name heading	Kisch, Alexander, 1848-1917 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Located	Breslau, Germany Tübingen, Germany Paris, France Most, Czech Republic Zurich, Switzerland Mladá Boleslav, Czech Republic Prague, Czech Republic
Birth date	1848
Death date	1917
Place of birth	Prague, Czech Republic
Place of death	Prague, Czech Republic
Field of activity	Jewish preaching Jewish religious education
Affiliation	Jüdisch-Theologisches Seminar (Breslau, Germany) Maiselova synagoga (Prague, Czech Republic)
Profession or occupation	Rabbi Jewish authors Jewish historians
Found in	Kisch, Guido. Alexander Kisch, 1848-1917, 1934: title page (Alexander Kisch) page 7, etc. (Professor, Dr. phil.; Gemeinderabbiner und Prediger der Meiselsynagogue in Prag; born October 5,1848 to Joseph and Marie Mislap Kisch; studied at the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau from 1863-1873; served as tutor to the children of Baron Horace Günzburg in Paris; received Ph.D. from University of Tübingen in 1871; from 1874 he was field preacher for the Prague army garrison for which he recieved the Gold Cross for Merit from Emperor Franz Joseph I in 1899; 1874-1877 was rabbi in Brüx (Most, Bohemia); 1877-1881 was rabbi in Zurich; 1881-1886 was rabbi in Jungbunzlau (Mladá Boleslav); 1886-1917 was rabbi of Maiselsynagogue in Prague; 1886 was elected chief rabbi of Prague; was associated with the Wissenschaft des Judentums movement; married to Charlotte Pollatschek; died December 8, 1917) YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe online, viewed April 9, 2013 (Kisch, Alexander, 1848-1917, rabbi , educator, orator, and publicist; published numerous articles in academic journals and newspapers on Bible, Talmud, liturgy, Jewish history (especially of Jews in Prague), education and politics; in 1884 he was associated with Or Tomid, an association for the promotion of Jewish prayer services in the Czech language and was one of the first preachers in Prague to use Czech in his sermons)
Associated language	ger cze