Albert Friedlander

Life

Friedlander was the son of a textile merchant Alex Friedlander (d. 1955) and Sali Friedlander (d. 1965) was born in Berlin, where he spent the first twelve years of childhood. In 1933, he and his siblings learned first hostilities in school and barely escaped several times worse persecution. The pogroms of November 1938 brought the parents finally available for inspection to force the emigration of the family. This then also succeeded in early 1939 initially to Cuba and eventually to the United States. In Vicksburg, Mississippi Albert Friedlander completed his schooling. Thanks to the good intellectual and athletic achievements Albert got a scholarship to study in Religious Studies, History and Jewish Studies, which he started at the University of Chicago, at the same time, he worked in all kinds of side jobs.

His studies as a Rabbi Albert H. Friedlander graduated in 1952 at the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati from, thereafter was first rabbi in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and then in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, where it was necessary to build a synagogue. Later he moved to the locations of the student rabbi at Columbia University as well as a rabbi in East Hampton, NY, so his thesis Leo Baeck: Teacher of Theresienstadt to work out can, with which he earned a PhD in 1956. In 1961 he married Evelyn Philip, they have three children. 1966, Albert H. Friedlander 's reputation as a liberal rabbi in London, where he initially worked in the synagogue community and Wembley since 1971 in Westminster. From 1975 to 1995 he was Vice President of the World Union for Progressive Judaism.

Work

The scientific work of Albert H. Friedlander can be divided into three main areas: Without a doubt he is the greatest artist, and also the successor of Leo Baeck, the great leading figure of Liberal Judaism in Germany. Leo Baeck has supported the plight of German Jews to the worst period of persecution in it: he survived the concentration camp Theresienstadt. Despite this period of suffering Leo Baeck was after the war to the first, which reopened the Christian-Jewish dialogue in Germany. Albert H. Friedlander with his book Leo Baeck developed consistently in six volumes the life and work of this important German - Jewish thinker Teacher of Theresienstadt and the Leo Baeck work output. A second issue revolves around the history and philosophy of religion reappraisal of the Shoah. Here are mainly the books Out of the Whirlwind: The Literature of the Holocaust (1968, 1996), The End of the Night: Jewish and Christian thinkers after the Shoah (1995 ) and together with Elie Wiesel The Six Days of Destruction (1988 ) to call. Albert H. Friedlander it is about the mental reflection and coping with the experience of our recent history, so that a Shoah in Europe is no longer possible. This is followed thirdly build on Friedlander's efforts to Christian-Jewish dialogue. Since 1979 he is active as a Jewish dialogue partners on all church days in Germany, but also in dialogue with the Anglican Church in England. This primarily includes the books A strip of gold ( 1989, Engl 1991. ) And Riders Toward the Dawn: from Pessimism to Optimism Tempered (1993).

Teaching

Rabbi Friedlander worked since 1967 at the Leo Baeck College in London and since 1982 director ( principal) of this important educational institution of Progressive Judaism in Europe. He taught as a visiting professor in Atlanta, Berlin, Wuppertal, Basel and Potsdam, he was twice the Martin Buber visiting professor at the University of Frankfurt am Main. He was appointed to the Franz Rosenzweig visiting professor at the University of Kassel in 1999. In 1997 he was a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin.

Honors

Writings

  • Early Reform Judaism in Germany: An Introduction, two parts, 1954-55
  • Reform Judaism in America: The Pittsburgh Platform, 1958
  • Leo Baeck: Teacher of Theresienstadt (1968 ), 1991, ISBN 0879513934
  • Leo Baeck. Life and Teaching (1973 ), 1990, ISBN 3-459-01855-0.
  • The Silence of the Christians and humanity. God believers existence after Auschwitz, 1980
  • Reconciliation with history, acc. Friedrich -Wilhelm Marquardt, 1985
  • The Six Days of Destruction, acc. with Elie Wiesel, 1988
  • A strip of gold - On the Roads to Reconciliation, 1989
  • A Thread of Gold: Journeys towards Reconciliation, 1990
  • The six days of creation and destruction. A Hope Book, 1992, ISBN 3-451-22596-4
  • Riders Towards The Dawn, 1993.
  • From the Flood to paradise, acc. with Walter Homolka, 1993
  • The Gate to Perfection, with Walter Homolka, 1994, ISBN 3-534-80147-4
  • The end of the night: Jewish and Christian thinkers after the Holocaust, 1995
  • From Darkness towards the Light: The Human Predicament. The Annual Lecture Sacks, 1999
  • Autobiographical thoughts. In: Wolf Dietrich - Smith Kowarzik (ed.) clashes with the destroyed Jewish heritage. Franz Rosenzweig guest lectures (1999-2005). Kassel 2004, ISBN 3-89958-044-3
  • Albert H. Friedlander, Bertold rattling, Werner Licharz (ed.): Leo Baeck. Works. Gütersloher publishing house. Volume 1: The Essence of Judaism. 1998, ISBN 3-579-02334-9.
  • Volume 2: This people. 1996, ISBN 3-579-02335-7.
  • Volume 3: Ways in Judaism. 1997, ISBN 3-579-02336-5.
  • Volume 4: For three millennia. The Gospel as a record of the Jewish history. 2000, ISBN 3-579-02337-3.
  • Volume 5: writings from the post-war period. 2002, ISBN 3-579-02338-1.
  • Volume 6: letters, speeches, essays. 2003, ISBN 3-476-01833-4.
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