Henrik Bródy Explained

Honorific-Prefix:Rabbi
Heinrich Brody
Native Name:חיים בראדי
Native Name Lang:he
Birth Date:21 May 1868
Birth Place:Ungvár, Ung County, Kingdom of Hungary
Death Date:1942
Death Place:Mandatory Palestine
Other Names:Bródy Henrik, Haim Brody
Nationality:Hungarian, Czechoslovak
Denomination:Orthodox
Occupation:Rabbi
Known For:Leading the Mizrachi movement in Czechoslovakia
Office1:Chief Rabbi of Prague
Office2:Rabbi of Náchod

Heinrich Brody (German), Bródy Henrik (Hungarian) or Haim Brody (Hebrew: חיים בראדי) (21 May 1868 – 1942) was a Hungarian (after 1918 Czechoslovakian) rabbi. He was born in Ungvár, in the Ung County of the Kingdom of Hungary (present-day Ukraine).

He was a descendant of Abraham Broda. Educated in the public schools of his native town and at the rabbinical colleges of Tolcsva and Pressburg, Hungary, Brody also studied at the Hildesheimer Theological Seminary and at the University of Berlin, being an enthusiastic scholar of the Hebrew language and literature.

He was for some time secretary of the literary society Mekiẓe Nirdamim, and in 1896 founded the "Zeitschrift für Hebräische Bibliographie", of which he was coeditor with A. Freiman.

Brody was the rabbi of the congregation of Náchod, Bohemia and chief rabbi of Prague (both cities then part of Austria-Hungary), before moving to Palestine. In Czechoslovakia, he was the leader of the Mizrachi movement.

Literary works

Brody is author or editor of the following works:

He has also published, under the assumed name of Dr. H. Salomonsohn, "Widerspricht der Zionismus Unserer Religion?" 1898, and is a contributor to "Ha-Maggid," "Israelitische Monatsschrift," "Magazin für die Wissenschaft des Judenthums," "Monatsschrift für Geschichte und Literatur des Judenthums," "Allgemeine Zeitung des Judenthums," "Évkönyv," "Ha-Eshkol," "Ha-Shiloaḥ," etc.

References

(http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=1497&letter=B)

By Isidore Singer & Frederick T. Haneman

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