Erwin Schild

Erwin plate ( born March 9, 1920 in Cologne -Mülheim ) is a Canadian Judaic scholar, semitist and conservative rabbis.

Life and work

Erwin sign attended after high school, 1938, the Israelite Lehrerbildungsanstalt Würzburg. However, due to the events of November 9, 1938 ( Kristallnacht ), he had to stop his education since the establishment was destroyed and its members were arrested. Sign came in the Dachau concentration camp. From there he managed between December 1938 and January 1939, the exodus and emigration to England. In London he began in 1939 a rabbinical studies in 1940 but was interned as a so-called enemy alien in England and deported to Canada, where he remained as a German and later interned as a refugee. However, he could continue his rabbinical studies in the camp. After his release in 1942, he studied at the Yeshiva Torah Chaim in Toronto. He was ordained as a rabbi in 1947. In parallel, he graduated from the University of Toronto in 1947 in the field of Semitic Studies Bachelor of Arts degree, which a year later, the master's degree followed.

As a rabbi of Adath Israel Congregation in Toronto shield worked from 1947 until his retirement in 1989 in the parish work, but kept still in touch with the science. From 1950 to 1952 he taught at the University of Toronto Hebrew, Arabic and Aramaic. 1975 Erwin plate received an honorary doctorate from the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. Erwin shield held various honorary positions and was awarded on December 2, 1981, the " Human Relations Award" from the Canadian Section of the Council of Christians and Jews. In that year, since his escape, he first came back to Germany to stand up again and again in subsequent years with lectures, meetings and conversations in communities, schools and universities for an understanding between Christians and Jews. At the Institute of Catholic Theology at the University of Osnabrück Erwin sign appeared in late 1998 with on a Judeo-Christian seminar for prospective teachers of religion.

Honors

On 25 May 2000 he was awarded the University of Osnabrück, together with his important Christian interlocutor Hans Hermann Henrix, an honorary doctorate. Also in 2000, he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit 1st class of the Federal Republic of Germany. On 30 May 2001 him the Governor General of Canada awarded the honor of Member of the Order of Canada.