German Rabbis In British Exile

Author : Astrid Zajdband
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110471717

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German Rabbis in British Exile by Astrid Zajdband Pdf

The rich history of the German rabbinate came to an abrupt halt with the November Pogrom of 1938. The need to leave Germany became clear and many rabbis made use of the visas they had been offered. Their resettlement in Britain was hampered by additional obstacles such as internment, deportation, enlistment in the Pioneer Corps. But rabbis still attempted to support their fellow refugees with spiritual and pastoral care. The refugee rabbis replanted the seed of the once proud German Judaism into British soil. New synagogues were founded and institutions of Jewish learning sprung up, like rabbinic training and the continuation of “Wissenschaft des Judentums.” The arrival of Leo Baeck professionalized these efforts and resulted in the foundation of the Leo Baeck College in London. Refugee rabbis now settled and obtained pulpits in the many newly founded synagogues. Their arrival in Britain was the catalyst for much change in British Judaism, an influence that can still be felt today.

Author : Astrid Zajdband
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110469721

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German Rabbis in British Exile by Astrid Zajdband Pdf

The rich history of the German rabbinate came to an abrupt halt with the November Pogrom of 1938. The need to leave Germany became clear and many rabbis made use of the visas they had been offered. Their resettlement in Britain was hampered by additional obstacles such as internment, deportation, enlistment in the Pioneer Corps. But rabbis still attempted to support their fellow refugees with spiritual and pastoral care. The refugee rabbis replanted the seed of the once proud German Judaism into British soil. New synagogues were founded and institutions of Jewish learning sprung up, like rabbinic training and the continuation of “Wissenschaft des Judentums.” The arrival of Leo Baeck professionalized these efforts and resulted in the foundation of the Leo Baeck College in London. Refugee rabbis now settled and obtained pulpits in the many newly founded synagogues. Their arrival in Britain was the catalyst for much change in British Judaism, an influence that can still be felt today.

Author : Abraham Joshua Heschel
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780827618251

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In This Hour: Heschel's Writings in Nazi Germany and London Exile by Abraham Joshua Heschel Pdf

In This Hour offers the first English translations of selected German writings by Abraham Joshua Heschel from his tumultuous years in Nazi-ruled Germany and months in London exile, before he found refuge in the United States. Moreover, several of the works have never been published in any language. Composed during a time of intense crisis for European Jewry, these writings both argue for and exemplify a powerful vision of spiritually rich Jewish learning and its redemptive role in the past and the future of the Jewish people. The collection opens with the text of a speech in which Heschel laid out with passion his vision for Jewish education. Then it goes on to present his teachings: a set of essays about the rabbis of the Mishnaic period, whose struggles paralleled those of his own time; the biography of the medieval Jewish scholar and leader Don Yitzhak Abravanel; reflections on the power and meaning of repentance, written for the High Holidays in 1936; and a short story on Jewish exile, written for Hanukkah 1937. The collection closes with a set of four recently discovered meditations—on suffering, prayer, spirituality, and God—in which Heschel grapples with the horrors unfolding around him. Taken together, these essays and story fill a significant void in Heschel’s bibliography: his Nazi Germany and London exile years. These translations convey the spare elegance of Heschel’s prose, and the introduction and detailed notes make the volume accessible to readers of all knowledge levels. As Heschel teaches history, his voice is more than that of a historian: the old becomes new, and the struggles of one era shed light on another. Even as Heschel quotes ancient sources, his words address the issues of his own time and speak urgently to ours.

Author : Werner Eugen Mosse,Julius Carlebach
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 3161457412

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Second Chance by Werner Eugen Mosse,Julius Carlebach Pdf

Author : Swen Steinberg,Anthony Grenville
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004399532

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Refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe in British Overseas Territories by Swen Steinberg,Anthony Grenville Pdf

This special issue focusses on refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe in British colonies, dominions and overseas territories. It deals with aspects like internment, identity and cultural representation in not well-known destinations of forced migration like India, New Zealand, Canada or Kenya.

Author : Marc Saperstein
Publisher : Hebrew Union College Press
Page : 1197 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780822983088

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Agony in the Pulpit by Marc Saperstein Pdf

Many scholars have focused on contemporary sources pertaining to the Nazi persecution and mass murder of Jews between 1933 and 1945--citing dated documents, newspapers, diaries, and letters--but the sermons delivered by rabbis describing and protesting against the ever-growing oppression of European Jews have been largely neglected. Agony in the Pulpit is a response to this neglect, and to the accusations made by respected figures that Jewish leaders remained silent in the wake of catastrophe. The passages from sermons reproduced in this volume--delivered by 135 rabbis in fifteen countries, mainly from the United States and England--provide important evidence of how these rabbis communicated the ever-worsening news to their congregants, especially on important religious occasions when they had peak attendance and peak receptivity. A central theme is how the preachers related the contemporary horrors to ancient examples of persecution. Did they present what was occurring under Hitler as a reenactment of the murderous oppressions by Pharaoh, Amalek, Haman, Ahasuerus, the Crusaders, the Spanish Inquisition, the Russian Pogroms? When did they begin to recognize and articulate from their pulpits an awareness that current events were fundamentally unprecedented? Was the developing cataclysm consistent with traditional beliefs about God's control of what happened on earth? No other book-length study has presented such abundant evidence of rabbis in all streams of Jewish religious life seeking to rouse and inspire their congregants to full awareness of the catastrophic realities that were taking shape in the world beyond their synagogues.

Author : Elizabeth Petuchowski
Publisher : Archway Publishing
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781665708913

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Where From and Where To by Elizabeth Petuchowski Pdf

What impact did the rise of Nazi dictatorship and mandatory anti-Semitism have on a Jewish child and young girl in Germany? How did her family live a Jewish life in Germany? How did she reach England and, during World War II, attend a London school evacuated to the provinces and a university department evacuated to a coastal town? In Where From and Where To, author Elizabeth Petuchowski narrates her story and answers these questions set against a background of contemporaneous events. She talks about her post-war work in London’s Fleet Street for a publisher of trade journals, her marriage to a Berlin-born rabbinic student with whom she came to America, how she coped with culture shock and got used to living in America. Petuchowski recalls colorful characters; gatherings with students and with many others, well-known and not well-known; her own studies in Cincinnati, Ohio; and seeing England and Germany again years later. Where From and Where To shares a story of a most varied and fortunate life during times of momentous world happenings.

Author : Jeremy D. Adler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Brain drain
ISBN : 0854572694

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The Great Transformation by Jeremy D. Adler Pdf

Author : Marion Berghahn
Publisher : Berg Publishers
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038363177

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Continental Britons by Marion Berghahn Pdf

Author : Association of Jewish Refugees in Great Britain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039192781

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Britain's New Citizens by Association of Jewish Refugees in Great Britain Pdf

This publication marks the tenth anniversary of the Association of Jewish Refugees in Great Britain (AJR). It contains tributes to Britain and a brief history of the organisation itself. Most of the short articles deal with Jewish refugee contributions in England in various fields; i.e. trade and industry, science and the arts.

Author : Ilse Josepha Lazaroms
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789004234857

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The Grace of Misery. Joseph Roth and the Politics of Exile, 1919-?1939 (paperback) by Ilse Josepha Lazaroms Pdf

In The Grace of Misery. Joseph Roth and the Politics of Exile 1919–1939 Ilse Josepha Lazaroms offers an account of the life and intellectual legacy of Joseph Roth, one of interwar Europe's most critical and modern writers.

Author : Walter Rothschild
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798668247134

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Rabbi Dr. Erich Beinheim by Walter Rothschild Pdf

''Rabbi Dr. Erich Bienheim came from a small village in northern Germany, studiied in Berlin, served as Rabbi in Darmstadt, then suffered the horrors of Nazi concentration camps and exile and British internment, before coming to serve as rabbi in Bradford for the last thirteen years of his life. Sadly he left few records and no close family but Rabbi Dr. Walter Rothschild learned his first Hebrew letters from Bienheim - he was only seven when his first rabbi died - and in a way the seeds were sown for a mirror career that has led to him leaving England and serving as Rabbi in Germany. Some rabbis become famous, others do not and Bienheim was one of the latter, but he served faithfully and well and deserves to be remembered, at least, as one of those who toiled in the vineyards of the Lord - even if the harvest was often but bitter grapes. This is a personal biography, written from a Rabbi's perspective - and who would know better what that means?''

Author : Cornelia Wilhelm
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0253070198

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The Last Generation of the German Rabbinate by Cornelia Wilhelm Pdf

After the Nazi seizure of power on January 30, 1933, over 250 German rabbis, rabbinical scholars, and students for the rabbinate fled to the United States. The Last Generation of the German Rabbinate follows their lives and careers over decades in America. Although culturally uprooted, the group's professional lives and intellectual leadership, particularly those of the younger members of this group, left a considerable mark intellectually, socially, and theologically on American Judaism and on American Jewish congregational and organizational life in the postwar world. Meticulously researched and representing the only systematic analysis of prosopographical data in a digital humanities database, The Last Generation of the German Rabbinate reveals the trials of those who had lost so much and celebrates the legacy they made for themselves in America.

Author : Gideon Reuveni,Diana Franklin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1557537119

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The Future of the German-Jewish Past by Gideon Reuveni,Diana Franklin Pdf

Germany's acceptance of its direct responsibility for the Holocaust has strengthened its relationship with Israel and has led to a deep commitment to combat antisemitism and rebuild Jewish life in Germany. As we draw close to a time when there will be no more firsthand experience of the horrors of the Holocaust, there is great concern about what will happen when German responsibility turns into history. Will the present taboo against open antisemitism be lifted as collective memory fades? There are alarming signs of the rise of the far right, which includes blatantly antisemitic elements, already visible in public discourse. But it is mainly the radicalization of the otherwise moderate Muslim population of Germany and the entry of almost a million refugees since 2015 from Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan that appears to make German society less tolerant and somewhat less inhibited about articulating xenophobic attitudes. The evidence is unmistakable--overt antisemitism is dramatically increasing once more. The Future of the German-Jewish Past deals with the formidable challenges created by these developments. It is conceptualized to offer a variety of perspectives and views on the question of the future of the German-Jewish past. The volume addresses topics such as antisemitism, Holocaust memory, historiography, and political issues relating to the future relationship between Jews, Israel, and Germany. While the central focus of this volume is Germany, the implications go beyond the German-Jewish experience and relate to some of the broader challenges facing modern societies today.

Author : Moses Rischin,Raphael Asher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017673968

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The Jewish Legacy and the German Conscience by Moses Rischin,Raphael Asher Pdf