Ignatz Lichtenstein

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name = Ignatz Lichtenstein


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caption = "Ignatz Lichtenstein"
birth_date = 1824
birth_place = Hungary
death_date = death date|1909|10|16|mf=y
death_place =
occupation = Chief Rabbi of Tápiószele Hungary (1857-1892)
spouse =
parents =
children = Emanuel Lichtenstein, MD [Two Letters; or, What I really Wish. (Translated by Mrs. Baron) Hebrew Christian Testimony to Israel. 1887]

Ignatz Lichtenstein [also called Isaac Lichtenstein, due to a misunderstanding of his pen name, I. Lichtenstein.] (1824 - October 16, 1909) was an Hungarian Orthodox Rabbi who wrote "pamphlets advocating conversion to Christianity while still officiating as a Rabbi."cite book
last=Deutsch
first=Gotthard
title=Scrolls: Essays on Jewish History and Literature and Kindred Subjects V1 and V2
id=ISBN 1417952172
publisher=Kessinger Publishing
year=2005
pages=118-119] Though he refused to be baptized into the Christian faith his whole life,cite book
title=Communion in the Messiah: Studies in the Relationship Between Judaism and Christianity
first=Lev
last=Gillet
year=2002
publisher=James Clarke & Co.
pages=206
id=ISBN 0227172256] he ultimately resigned his rabbinate in 1892.cite book
publisher=Hunt & Nation
title=The Gospel in All Lands
year=1894
location=New York
last=Smith
first=Eugene R.
pages=507-508] A biography of him appeared in the Methodist Episcopal missionary magazine "The Gospel in All Lands" in 1894 .The Jewish historian Gotthard Deutsch, an editor of the Jewish Encyclopedia, in an essay published 3 February 1916, mentions him in the course of refuting a claim by the Chief Rabbi of London that no rabbi had ever become a convert to Christianity. Messianic Jews later mention him as an example of a turn of the 19th century "Jewish believer in Jesus." Speaking of his first contact with the gospel, he said: "I looked for thorns and gathered roses."

Bibliography (German and English)

Catalogues of works authored by the Rabbi may make dubious attributions. Deutsch, for example, notes he is confused with a Rabbi Jehiel Lichtenstein (1831–1912) who worked for a missionary institute in Leipsic. Original German Works: [“Introduction to Rabbi Isaac Lichtenstein: Selected Writings” Jorge Quiñónez, (editor) Daniel Lancaster (co-editor). Keren Ahvah Meshihit 2008.]

* " [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Der_Talmud_auf_der_Anklagebank_durch_einen_begeisterten_Verehrer_des_Judenthums Der Talmud auf der Anklagebank durch einen begeisterten Verehrer des Judenthums] " [“"The Talmud on the Dock by an Inspired Worshipper of Judaism"”] , Heft I (Budapest, 1886).
* "Mein Zeugnis" [“"My Testimony"”] , Heft II (Budapest: Hornyánszky, 1886).
* " [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Die_Liebe_und_die_Befehrung Die Liebe und die Bekehrung] " [“"Love and Conversion"”] , Heft III (Budapest, 1886).
* "Judenthum und Christenthum" [“"Judaism and Christianity"”] , (Hamburg: A. Scheibenhuber, 1891?).
* "Eine Bitte an die geehrten Leser" [“"An Appeal to Honored Readers"”] , (Budapest, 1893 or 1894).
* “‘"Zwei Briefe’ oder ‘was ich eigentlich will"’” [“‘"Two Letters’ or ‘What I Really Wish"’”] , Saat auf Hoffnung 30 (1893), 9-36.
* “"Das Blut Christi, ein Nachklang aus dem Midrasch Echa"” [“"The Blood of Christ, an Echo of Midrash Ekhah"”] , Saat auf Hoffnung 30 (1893), 229-32.
* "Judenspiegel" [“"The Jewish Mirror"”] (Vienna: L. Schoenberger, 1896).
* “"Welche Anknüpfungspunkte findet die evangelische Verkündigung bei den Juden?"” [“"Which Connecting Factors do Protestant Doctrines find with Jewish Doctrines?"”] in Gustaf Dalman (ed.), Die allgemeine Konferenz für Judenmission in Leipzig, abgehalten vom 6. bis 8. Juni 1895, (Leipzig,1896), 40-55. [Series: Schriften des Institutum Judaicum in Leipzig, No. 44-46] ; later reprinted by “"The Hebrew Christian Testimony to Israel"” in London as "Begegnungspunkte zwischen Juden und Christen: Gesetz und Evangelium" [“"Points of Meeting between Jewish and Christian Doctrine: the Law and the Gospel"”.] (London: H.C.T.I., 1902).
* “"Ein Weihnachts- und Neujahrsgruß an alle Neugeborenen im Herrn"” [“"A Christmas and New Year Greeting to all the Born Again in the Lord"”] , Saat auf Hoffnung 36 (1899), 5-9.
* "Ein Geheimniss aus dem Talmud" [“"A Secret from the Talmud"”] , (Vienna: L. Scnberger, 1900).
* “"Ein Weihnachts- und Neujahrsgruß für die auserwählten Kinder des Lichtes"” [“"A Christmas and New Year Greeting for the Elect Children of the Light"”] , Saat auf Hoffnung 37 (1900), 35-40.
* “"Ein Neujahrsgruß für die Neugebornen im Herrn zum Heilsjahre 1902"” [“"A New Year Greeting for the Born Again in the Lord in the Year, 1902"”] , Saat auf Hoffnung 39 (1902), 5-8.

Translations into English: [“Introduction to Rabbi Isaac Lichtenstein: Selected Writings” Jorge Quiñónez, (editor) Daniel Lancaster (co-editor). Keren Ahvah Meshihit 2008.]

* J. Lichtenstein. "Judaism and Christianity" (translated from the German by Margaret M. Alison) (Edinburgh: Morrison & Gibb, 1893). [Translation of 4.]
* "An Appeal to the Jewish People" (Translated by Mrs. [?] Baron). [London] : The Hebrew Christian Testimony to Israel (H. C. T. I., 1894). [Translation of 5.]
* “"Letter from Rabbi Lichtenstein",” The Jewish Era 4:4 (Oct. 1895), 76.
* ‘"Two Letters’ or ‘What I Really Wish",’ (translated by Mrs. [?] Baron) (London: The Hebrew Christian Testimony to Israel (H. C. T. I., 189?). [Translation of 6.]
* “"What Connecting Links Does the Proclamation of the Gospel Find with the Jew?"” [translated by Mrs. E. R. Kinglinger] The Jewish Era 5:1 (Jan. 1896), 1-3; 5:2 (April 1896), 37-42. [Translation of 9.]
* "The Jewish Mirror" (London: H. C. T. I., 1897). [Translation of 8.]
* "The Points of Contact between Evangelical and Jewish Doctrine: An Address, Delivered at Leipsic" [sic] (Translated from the German by Mrs. [David] Baron) (Northfield, England: H. C. T. I., 1897). [Translation of 9.]
* “"A New Year’s Greeting to the Elect Children of Light",” The Jewish Era 7:2 (April 1898), 37-39.
* "The Blood of Christ". H. C. T. I. (1903). [Translation of 7.]
* “"A New Year’s Greeting from Rabbi Lichtenstein",” The Jewish Era 12:1 (Jan. 15, 1903), 1-3.

Notes

External links

* [http://www.messianicassociation.org/bio-lichtenstein.htm Online Biography]
* [http://www.lcje.net/bulletins/2003/71/71_03.html Introduction to The Collected Writings of Rabbi Isaac Lichtenstein]

Persondata
NAME= Lichtenstein, Ignatz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES= Lichtenstein, Isaac; Lichtenstein, I.; Lichtenstein, J.
SHORT DESCRIPTION= Orthodox Rabbi who, while still in office, became a believer in Yeshua (Jesus).
DATE OF BIRTH= 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH= Hungary
DATE OF DEATH= October 16, 1909
PLACE OF DEATH=