Fritz Bamberger (scholar)

Fritz Bamberger ( born January 7, 1902 in Frankfurt am Main, † September 21, 1984 in New York City ) was a German social scientists, educator and journalist.

Life

Bamberger received his doctorate in 1923, Dr. phil. in Berlin and researched and taught 1926-1938 at the Academy of the Science of Judaism. He was involved in the publication of Moses Mendelsohn Memorial edition, which appeared in 1929.

After the handover of power to the National Socialists in the German Empire, he headed 1934-1938 the Jewish Teacher Training Institute and organized the Jewish school system in Berlin. In 1938 he emigrated to the United States, where he first found employment in the College of Jewish Studies and the University of Chicago. In 1942 he became editor of the magazine Coronet and the same publisher Executive Director at Esquire magazine.

Bamberger was from 1962 to 1979 professor of intellectual history at Hebrew Union College, New York. When Leo Baeck Institute in New York, he was position in North American Board of the World Union for Progressive Judaism since 1955 and Vice President in the same.

Bamberger lived in Manhattan and was married to the literary Maria Bamberger. They had two children.

Works

  • Studies on the origin of the value problem in the philosophy of the 19th century. Part 1: Hermann Lotze. Max Niemeyer, Halle ( Saale) in 1924. ( Friedrich- Wilhelms- University, Phil Diss, 1923)
  • The spiritual figure of Moses Mendelssohn. J. Kauffmann, Frankfurt 1929
  • With others ( ed.): Moses Mendelssohn, Collected Works, Organized on the occasion of d 200th anniversary of his birth by the Academy for Jewish Studies and the Society for Promotion of Science of Judaism together with an Honorary Committee, with the support of the House Mendelssohn & Co. Academy, Berlin 1929-1938
  • The system of Maimonides. An analysis of the newuchim More from the concept of God. Schocken, Berlin 1935
  • Johann Gottfried Herder: Leaves of old. Seals from the Eastern Sage. [ Jewish. Seals and fables. ] Afterword Bamberger. Schocken, Berlin 1936
  • Jewish characters and their time. A History of the Jewish spirit of Moses Mendelssohn to. [ Fwd: Bamberg ], Philo, Berlin 1936
  • Zunz ' conception of history, in American Academy for Jewish Research. Proceedings. Vol 11, Jerusalem 1941, pp. 1 - 25
  • Leo Baeck, the man and the idea. Leo Baeck Institute, New York 1958
  • Julius Guttmann, philosopher of Judaism. London, 1960 in German: Julius Guttmann, philosopher of Judaism, in Robert Weltsch Ed.: German Jewry, Rise and Crisis. Forms, ideas, works. Fourteen monographs. Publication of the Leo Baeck Institute. German publishing house, Stuttgart 1963, pp. 85-119
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