Ernst Ehrlich

Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich ( born March 27, 1921 in Berlin, † October 21, 2007 in Riehen near Basel ) was a German -Swiss Judaic scholar and historian. Honestly, who fled in 1943 to Switzerland from the Nazis, has been used for decades for the Christian-Jewish dialogue. From 1961 to 1994 he was European Director of the Jewish organization B'nai B'rith.

Life

Ehrlich was born the son of an official in Berlin. After graduation, he began in 1940 to study at the Berlin Academy of the Science of Judaism under Leo Baeck. When the facility was closed in 1942, Ehrlich was forced to forced labor. The lawyer Franz Kaufmann gave a fake Ehrlich of Cioma Schönhaus Pass, with which he could flee to Switzerland in June 1943. Ehrlich initially spent three months in a labor camp, but then received a scholarship to the University of Basel, where he began his studies again and 1950 Dr. phil. received his doctorate.

In 1955, Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich held teaching positions at the universities of Frankfurt, Zurich, Basel, Bern and at the Free University of Berlin. In 1961, Ehrlich European Directorate items of B'nai B'rith. He held this office until 1994 and then was elected an honorary vice-president of the organization. In 1972 Ehrlich was working as an adjunct professor for newer Jewish history at the theological faculty of the University of Bern.

Early on, Ehrlich had used for dialogue between Jews and Christians. In 1958 he became Secretary General of the Christian- Jewish Association in Switzerland. In the same year he was awarded the Leo Baeck Prize of the Central Council of Jews in Germany. During the Second Vatican Council from 1962 to 1965, he worked as an advisor of Cardinal Augustin Bea and thereby involved in the drafting of the Declaration Nostra Aetate of the relationship of the Catholic Church to non-Christian religions. He was co-president of the Christian- Jewish Association at the Swiss Catholic Churches, 1990 Chairman of the Jewish- Roman Catholic Dialogue Commission of the Swiss Bishops' Conference in 1972. Also in the Swiss Protestant Church Federation and the "Jews and Christians " discussion group of the Central Committee of German Catholics Ehrlich participated.

Until his death in Ehrlich remained active, he published many papers and books on the Christian- Jewish relationship in the past and present. Recently he took in July 2007 in Berlin Israel Jacobson Award for his life's work against. Ehrlich died on October 21, 2007 in Riehen, near Basel, where he lived since 1943.

Reception

Awards (selection)

As namesake

Since the winter semester 2008/ 09 exists at the Department of History and Cultural Studies at the Free University of Berlin, the " Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich Masters Course. History, theory and practice of Jewish-Christian relations, "which makes an interdisciplinary master's degree program a contribution to Jewish-Christian dialogue.

Since 2009, the Begabtenförderungswerk Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich study work exists. As a twelfth gifted education institution of the Federal Republic of Germany awarded the Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich medal.

Works

  • The dream in the Old Testament, Töpelmann ( Supplements to the Journal for the Old Testament Studies 73 ), Berlin 1953
  • History of the Jews in Germany, Schwann ( historical source documents 6), Dusseldorf 1957
  • History of Israel. From the beginnings to the destruction of the Temple ( AD 70 ), de Gruyter ( Sammlung Goschen 231/231a ), Berlin 1958
  • The cult symbolism in the Old Testament and post-biblical Judaism ( in: symbolism of religions, Volume 3, ed v. Ferdinand Herrmann. ) Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1959
  • The ancient Jewish state, Lower Saxony State Agency for Civic Education (Problems of Judaism 1), Hannover 1964
  • Jew-hatred - blaming the Christians? Attempt a conversation ( with Willehad Paul Eckert ), Hans Driewer, Essen 1964
  • Jews and Christians have a future ( with Franz König ), Pendo, Zurich 1988
  • Dealing with the Shoah. As the second generation Jews live with the fate of the parents?, Schneider, Gerlingen 1993
  • Jewish Life and Culture in Germany. History, destruction and difficult new beginning ( with Hans Erler ), Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2000
  • Talking about Judaism, carbon Hammer ( Judaism and Christianity 6 ), Stuttgart 2001
  • Understand Judaism. The actuality of Jewish thought of Maimonides to Hannah Arendt ( ed. Hans Erler ), Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2002
  • "Against all futility ." Jewish resistance against the Nazis ( with Hans Erler and Arnold Paucker ), Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2003
  • Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich - From Job to Horkheimer. Collected writings on Judaism and the environment, ed. by Walter Homolka and Tobias Barniske. De Gruyter, Berlin, 2009.
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