Michael A. (Hrsg.) Meyer

Joachim Prinz, Rebellious Rabbi

An Autobiography--the German and Early American Years

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Joachim Prinz (1902-1988) was one of the most extraordinary and innovative figures in modern Jewish history. Never one for conformity, Prinz developed and modeled a new rabbinical role that set him apart from his colleagues in Weimar Germany. Provocative, strikingly informal and determinedly anti-establishment, he repeatedly stirred up controversy. During the Hitler years, Prinz strove to preserve the self-respect and dignity of a Jewish community that was vilified on a daily basis by Nazi propaganda. After immigrating to the United States in 1937, he soon became a prominent rabbi in New Jersey, drawing thousands to his unpredictable sermons.… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-253-34939-2
EAN: 9780253349392
Produktnummer: 3074930
Verlag: Indiana University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
Seitenangabe: 324 S.
Masse: H24.0 cm x B16.1 cm x D2.2 cm 654 g
Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
Gewicht: 654

Über den Autor

Michael A. Meyer is Adolph S. Ochs Professor of Jewish History at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, Ohio, and international president of the Leo Baeck Institute, devoted to the history and culture of German-speaking Jewry. He is author of Response to Modernity: A History of the Reform Movement in Judaism and co-editor (with Michael Brenner) of the four-volume German-Jewish History in Modern Times. He lives in Cincinnati, Ohio.