Adolf Kurrein

Adolf Kurrein (January 28, 1846 – October 23, 1919) was a Czech-Austrian rabbi and Zionist activist.

Losing his father, Markus Maharam Kurrein, when he was two years old, Adolf grew up with his sister Katharina and his mother Theresia (Telze) née Grünberger,[1] a seamstress.

[2] Kurrein edited the monthly Jüdische Chronik[3] from 1894 to 1896 with Simon Stern and Ignaz Ziegler and from 1897 to 1902 alone.

Besides several collections of sermons — entitled Maggid Mereshit (1880), Maggid le-Adam (1882), and Patriarchenbilder: I., Abraham (1893) — he wrote the following pamphlets: In 1877 Kurrein married Jessie Loewe, daughter of Louis Loewe.

His son Viktor Kurrein (1881-1974) was also a rabbi in Linz until he fled to England in 1938.