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.
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.
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By Isidore Singer & Frederick T. Haneman