Emmanuel Deutz

{{Short description|French rabbi}}

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| birth_date = 1763

| birth_place = Bonn, Germany

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Emmanuel Deutz (1763-1842) was a German-born French rabbi.

Biography

Emmanuel Deutz was born in 1763 in Bonn, Germany.{{cite book|last1=Berkovitz|first1=Jay R.|title=The Shaping of Jewish Identity in Nineteenth-Century France|date=1989|publisher=Wayne State University Press|location=Detroit, Michigan|isbn=9780814320112|oclc= 20012964|page=91|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1AwKgq-CyUgC&q=%22Emmanuel+Deutz%22&pg=PA91}}{{cite book|last1=Wraxall|first1=Lascelles|title=Remarkable Adventurers and Unrevealed Mysteries|date=1863|publisher=Richard Bentley|location=London, U.K.|oclc=7757810|page=[https://archive.org/details/remarkableadven00wraxgoog/page/n260 240]|url=https://archive.org/details/remarkableadven00wraxgoog|quote=Emmanuel Deutz.}}

Deutz served as a rabbi in Koblenz, Germany. He served as the Chief Rabbi of France from 1810 to 1842.{{cite journal|last1=Catan|first1=Moshe|title=The Chief Rabbis of France|journal=Michael: On the History of the Jews in the Diaspora|date=1991|volume=XII|pages=127–134|jstor=23495954}} Nevertheless, Deutz was not a fluent French speaker.

Deutz had a wife, Judith, and five children. His daughter Sarah married David Paul Drach.{{cite journal|last1=Kselman|first1=Thomas|title=Turbulent Souls in Modern France: Jewish Conversion and the Terquem Affair|journal=Historical Reflections|date=Spring 2006|volume=32|issue=1|page=90|jstor=41299362}} When Drach converted to Roman Catholicism, the couple separated. Meanwhile, one of Deutz's sons, Simon Deutz, also converted to Roman Catholicism.

Deutz died in 1842.

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