Alfred Gottschalk (rabbi)

Alfred Gottschalk ( born March 7, 1930 in Oberwesel, † 12 September 2009 in Cincinnati ) was an American rabbi of Reform Judaism, and author.

Life

During the Holocaust Gottschalk lost several family members and relatives. His father emigrated in 1938 to New York City; Wife and son followed him a year later. His childhood spent more Alfred Gottschalk in Brooklyn. He attended Brooklyn College. Then he studied at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati Jewish theology and literature, and in 1957 was a rabbi. His doctorate in Jewish theology, he obtained in 1965 at the University of Southern California. After his studies, he was first minister on the campus of the University of Southern California. For 30 years he headed then the Hebrew Union College. In 1972 he accompanied the semicha from Rabbi Sally Priesand in Cincinnati. He was a member of the launched by U.S. President Jimmy Carter Commission on the establishment of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC As an author, he wrote more than 100 articles and several books. In his first marriage he was married to Gina Schrag, with whom he has two children. In his second marriage he was married to Deanna Zeff Frank.