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Ignatz Lichtenstein
Ignatz Lichtenstein
Born1824
Hungary
Died(1908-10-16)October 16, 1908
OccupationRabbi of Tápiószele Hungary (1857-1892)
ChildrenEmanuel Lichtenstein, MD

Ignatz Lichtenstein (1824 – October 16, 1908) was a Hungarian Neolog rabbi who wrote "pamphlets advocating conversion to Christianity while still officiating as a Rabbi." Though he refused to be baptized into the Christian faith his whole life, he ultimately retired from his Rabbinical post at the age of 68 in 1892 due to failing health. In 1888 he visited by the Scottish minister and evangelist Alexander Neil Somerville. And then his biography 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, fallaciously, in the course of refuting a claim by the Chief Rabbi of London that no rabbi had ever become a convert to Christianity. Followers of Messianic Judaism 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

Catalogues of works authored by the Rabbi, including this one, 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 Leipzig.

Original German Works:

  • Der Talmud auf der Anklagebank durch einen begeisterten Verehrer des Judenthums , Heft I (Budapest, 1886).
  • Mein Zeugnis , Heft II (Budapest: Hornyánszky, 1886).
  • Die Liebe und die Bekehrung , Heft III (Budapest, 1886).
  • Judenthum und Christenthum , (Hamburg: A. Scheibenhuber, 1891?).
  • Eine Bitte an die geehrten Leser , (Budapest, 1893 or 1894), also known as Eine Bitte an das israelitische Volk
  • “‘Zwei Briefe’ oder ‘was ich eigentlich will’” , Saat auf Hoffnung 30 (1893), 9-36.
  • “Das Blut Christi, ein Nachklang aus dem Midrasch Echa” , Saat auf Hoffnung 30 (1893), 229-32.
  • Judenspiegel (Vienna: L. Schoenberger, 1896).
  • “Welche Anknüpfungspunkte findet die evangelische Verkündigung bei den Juden?” in Gustaf Dalman (ed.), Die allgemeine Konferenz für Judenmission in Leipzig, abgehalten vom 6. bis 8. Juni 1895, (Leipzig,1896), 40-55. ; later reprinted by “The Hebrew Christian Testimony to Israel” in London as Begegnungspunkte zwischen Juden und Christen: Gesetz und Evangelium (London: H.C.T.I., 1902).
  • “Ein Weihnachts- und Neujahrsgruß an alle Neugeborenen im Herrn” , Saat auf Hoffnung 36 (1899), 5-9.
  • Ein Geheimniss aus dem Talmud , (Vienna: L. Scnberger, 1900).
  • “Ein Weihnachts- und Neujahrsgruß für die auserwählten Kinder des Lichtes” , Saat auf Hoffnung 37 (1900), 35-40.
  • “Ein Neujahrsgruß für die Neugebornen im Herrn zum Heilsjahre 1902” , Saat auf Hoffnung 39 (1902), 5-8.

Translations into English:

  • J. Lichtenstein. Judaism and Christianity (translated from the German by Margaret M. Alison) (Edinburgh: Morrison & Gibb, 1893).
  • An Appeal to the Jewish People (Translated by Mrs. Baron). : The Hebrew Christian Testimony to Israel (H. C. T. I., 1894).
  • "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?).
  • “What Connecting Links Does the Proclamation of the Gospel Find with the Jew?” The Jewish Era 5:1 (Jan. 1896), 1-3; 5:2 (April 1896), 37-42.
  • The Jewish Mirror (London: H. C. T. I., 1897).
  • The Points of Contact between Evangelical and Jewish Doctrine: An Address, Delivered at Leipsic (Translated from the German by Mrs. Baron) (Northfield, England: H. C. T. I., 1897).
  • “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).
  • “A New Year’s Greeting from Rabbi Lichtenstein,” The Jewish Era 12:1 (Jan. 15, 1903), 1-3.

Original Hungarian Works:

Translations into French:

  • Le Miroir Juif
  • Points de Contact, Discours par le Rabbin Lichtenstein

Translation into Italian:

  • Uno specchio giudaico, o le scritture riguardanti il messia (Traduzione della traduzione Inglese dell'originale Tedesco. Firenze : Tip. Fattori e Puggelli, 1914.)

Translation into Yiddish:

  • מיין בקשה, פון הרב י' יצחק ליכטענשטיין

References

  1. Two Letters; or, What I really Wish. (Translated by Mrs. Baron) Hebrew Christian Testimony to Israel. 1887
  2. or Ignác in the Magyar Zsidó Lexikon (Hungarian Jewish Lexicon) from 1929, in the entry Tápiószele, also known in English as Isaac Lichtenstein and who wrote under the pen name I. Lichtenstein
  3. Louis Meyer, ed. (15 January 1909). "V. Austria Hungary". The Jewish Era. 18 (1). Chicago Hebrew Mission: 20. OCLC 49314122. Retrieved 23 December 2012. Rabbi Ignatz Lichtenstein died in Budapest in his eighty-fifth year on Friday, October 16th.
  4. ^ Deutsch, Gotthard (2005). Scrolls: Essays on Jewish History and Literature and Kindred Subjects V1 and V2. Kessinger Publishing. pp. 118–119. ISBN 1-4179-5217-2.
  5. ^ Gillet, Lev (2002). Communion in the Messiah: Studies in the Relationship Between Judaism and Christianity. James Clarke & Co. p. 206. ISBN 0-227-17225-6.
  6. ^ Smith, Eugene R. (1894). The Gospel in All Lands. New York: Hunt & Nation. pp. 507–508.
  7. Nagy-Laczkó, Balázs (3 February 2022). "'Dr. Somerville's sensational visit to Békés county' (hungarian). Hungarian original: Dr. Somerville szenzációs látogatása Békésben". Bárka (in Hungarian).
  8. "The Story of Rabbi Isaac Lichtenstein: From an account written over 90 years ago". The Association of Messianic Congregations.
  9. ^ “Introduction to Rabbi Isaac Lichtenstein: Selected Writings” Jorge Quiñónez, (editor) Daniel Lancaster (co-editor). Keren Ahvah Meshihit 2008.

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