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Samuel Feldmann was born in Oradea in 1885, into an Orthodox Jewish family. His father was a merchant. After graduating from high school in Oradea, he studied in a school (traditional Jewish school) in Frankfurt. He continued his studies in Cluj, Munich and at the University of Bern, where he obtained a doctorate in history in 1904. He was a professor of religion. During the First World War he served in the Romanian army as a military rabbi. He taught religion at the Jewish high school in Oradea. In 1928 he was elected First Rabbi at the synagogue in Sânnicolau Mare, and between 1946 and 1950 he was rabbi at the Orthodox Synagogue in the Fabric district in Timişoara.

Publications

Feldmann Sámuel, ford. / Samson Rafael Hirsch, A zsidó sábosz ethikai, bölcsészeti, szociális és pedagógiai jelentősége (Vác: Katzburg Ny., 1911)

idem, héberből átdolgozta – Katzburg Dávid, Igazság világa. A szocializmus a vallás megvilágításában (Vác: Katzburg Ny., 1918)

idem, Biblia és kultúra, 1: Vallás és haladás (Oradea: Rubinstein, 1930)

Torah és Derech Eretz, 1930

Correspondent to the publication "Zsidó Közlöny"

Sources

• Information from Vera Feldmann, Toronto, 2017, Samuel Feldmann's niece, his daughter Iboly and his son, Victor Feldmann
• Ki Kicsoda? A Bánsági Közélet Lexikonja, Timişoara, A „Lexika” Kiadóvállalat Kiadása, 1930
• Frojimovics Kinga, Neólog (Kongresszusi) és status quo ante rabbik Magyarországon, 1869-töl napjainkig. MTA Judaisztikai Kutatóközpont 2008