Isaac Breuer
| Isaac Breuer | |
|---|---|
| Personal details | |
| Born |
18 September 1883 Pápa, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | 10 July 1946 (aged 62) Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine |
| Nationality | German |
| Father | Solomon Breuer |
| Mother | Sophie Hirsch |
| Children |
Jacob Breuer (1915–2008) Mordechai Breuer (1918–2007) Ursula Breuer (1919–2006) Tzipora (Tzip) Breuer (born 1926) Simeon Breuer (1922–1943) |
Isaac Breuer (Hebrew: יצחק ברויאר; 1883–1946) was a rabbi in the German Neo-Orthodoxy movement of his maternal grandfather Samson Raphael Hirsch, and was the first president of Poalei Agudat Yisrael.
Breuer was born in Pápa, Austria-Hungary to Salomon Breuer, and lived most of his years in Frankfurt. His brother was Rabbi Joseph Breuer. He attended Hirsch's Realschule school, and received rabbinical ordination at age 20 from his own father's yeshivah. He studied law, jurisprudence, and philosophy at Marburg University, and until 1936 practiced law in Frankfurt.
In 1936 Breuer moved to Jerusalem, organized and became first president of Poalei Agudat Yisrael, and represented the Agudah before the Peel and Anglo American Commissions. He believed that Agudism could help prepare Jews to live in their ancestral home. (See below on his Zionism as a form of Agudah.) He married Jenny Eisenmann, a granddaughter of Eliezer Liepman Philip Prins. His five adult children were: Jacob (Bub), a lawyer who played a role in the Eichmann trial (1915–2008), Mordechai (1918–2007), Ursula (1919–2006, married Hermann Merkin), Tzipora (Tzip) Breuer Schneller (born 1926) and Simeon Breuer (1922–1943). His son-in-law Hermann Merkin helped to establish the Isaac Breuer College of Hebraic Studies (IBC program) at Yeshiva University in his memory.
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