Joachim Prinz

Joachim Prinz ( born May 10, 1902 in Bierdzan, district Opole, † 30 September 1988 in Livingston, New Jersey ) was a German rabbi and Zionist ( until 1948 ), who emigrated to the U.S. in 1937, there has been vice chairman of the World Jewish Congress and August 28, 1963 spoke at the march on Washington alongside Martin Luther King, Jr..

Life

Prince was the son of a textile merchant Opole. In 1917, he joined the Zionist youth organization Blue-White. After finishing high school in Opole in 1921, he studied at Breslau, Berlin and at the University of Giessen; here he was in 1927 with honors Dr. phil. PhD ( dissertation: On the concept of religious experience: A contribution to the theory of religion). His ordination as a rabbi, he received in 1925 from the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau. He married Lucie Horovitz, the daughter of his theological teacher. However, she died in 1931; second wife he was married to Hilde Goldschmidt since 1932.

Prince was appointed in 1926 as a rabbi at the club synagogue Temple of Peace in Berlin; the then youngest rabbi of Berlin soon earned a reputation as a charismatic preacher and ardent Zionists.

In 1934 he published the font We Jews, in which he since the Enlightenment took a position in a radical way against the assimilation of Western European Jewry, which led to loss of substance, and the mass emigration from Germany propagated. Hans -Joachim Schoeps responded with a rebuttal: We German Jews. 1935 declared Prince: The Jew's lot is to be nachbarlos. Shortly afterwards, the town council tried to fix it because of its mass sermons and speeches that have adapted to provoke disputes and excitement in the audience.

1937 succeeded Rabbi Stephen Wise, for Joachim Prinz, who had meanwhile been arrested several times by the Gestapo, to allow entry into the United States. Here Prince in 1939 rabbi of Temple B'nai Abraham synagogue reform in Newark (New Jersey), where he remained until his retirement in 1977. From the Zionism he had, however, resolved in 1948, as the latter had achieved his goal with the creation of Israel.

He was active in the American Jewish organizations and was 1958-1966 president of the American Jewish Congress. In this capacity, he was one of the organizers of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and was one of the speakers at the main rally in front of the Lincoln Memorial, where Martin Luther King, Jr, his famous " I Have a Dream " speech held.

Prince was also a board member of the Conference of Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Works

  • The concept of religious experience. Wroclaw 1927
  • Heroes and adventures of the Bible. Berlin- Charlottenburg: P. Baumann 1930
  • Jewish history. Berlin: Verlag for cultural policy in 1931 (2nd edition: Illustrated Jewish history in Berlin. Brandus 1933)
  • We Jews. Berlin: Reiss 1934 (Excerpts in: Christoph Schulte: Germanness and Jewishness A dispute among Jews in Germany Stuttgart. . Reclam 1993, Loeb Classical Library, No. 8899, ISBN 978-3-15-008899-9 )
  • The stories of the Bible. Berlin: Reiss ET 1934 (7 editions to 1937; edition: Frankfurt am Main: Jewish publisher at Atheneum 1988)
  • The Friday evening. Berlin: Brandus; Reprints: Zurich: Verl Jew. Book municipality in 1954
  • The life in the ghetto. Berlin: Leo 1937
  • Prayers for the High Holidays. 1951
  • The Dilema of the Modern Jew. 1962
  • Popes from the Ghetto. 1966
  • The secret Jews. 1963
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