Family Card - Person Sheet
NameRabbi Dr. Jonas Bondi 
Birth1804
FatherAbraham Bondi (~1768-1840)
MotherCaroline Genendel Bondi (-1836)
Spouses
Marriage1827, Breslau
Notes for Rabbi Dr. Jonas Bondi
{geni:about_me} Dr. Jonas Bondi, born 1804 in Dresden, married first to Caroline, daughter of Hirsch Beer and his wife Clara (nee Bondi), both of whom were his father's first cousins in 1827. Caroline died young in 1836 and thus he remarried in 1840 to Roslie Raabe in Breslau.
He received his Ph.D from the University of Prague whe he was twenty and was president of the Dresden synagogue before he came to the U.S.A. with his second wife and daughters in 1859.
The then Chief Rabbi of Great Britain, Nathan Adler, had given him a testimonial of his Jewish knowledge which brought him to the attention of the elders of the Anshei chesed Congregation of New York City in June 1858, For one year he served as their preacher and then established a Jewish periodical, "The Hebrew Leader", which he edited from its inception in 1860, until his death.
He also contributed to the Philadelphia periodical "Occident" and was connected with numerous charitable institutions.
His wife conducted a private girl's school.
He developed a fine reference library on "halacha" (Jewish law) which was given to the Hebrew Union College in Cincinatti by his son-in-law, Rabbi Isaac M. Wise.
He received his Ph.D from the University of Prague whe he was twenty and was president of the Dresden synagogue before he came to the U.S.A. with his second wife and daughters in 1859.
The then Chief Rabbi of Great Britain, Nathan Adler, had given him a testimonial of his Jewish knowledge which brought him to the attention of the elders of the Anshei chesed Congregation of New York City in June 1858, For one year he served as their preacher and then established a Jewish periodical, "The Hebrew Leader", which he edited from its inception in 1860, until his death.
He also contributed to the Philadelphia periodical "Occident" and was connected with numerous charitable institutions.
His wife conducted a private girl's school.
He developed a fine reference library on "halacha" (Jewish law) which was given to the Hebrew Union College in Cincinatti by his son-in-law, Rabbi Isaac M. Wise.