Herman N. Neuberger

Rabbi Naftali Neuberger Herman ( born June 26, 1918 in Haßfurt, † October 21, 2005 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States) was an Orthodox American Rabbis German origin. Herman Neuberger was the youngest of three children of Haßfurter businessman Meir Neuberger and his wife Bertha. At the age of 8, he moved with his family to Würzburg. Meir Neuberger died shortly after Herman's Bar Mitzvah.

1935 Herman Neuberger went to Poland to study at the yeshiva Mirrer. His older brother Albert was in 1934 emigrated to London, where he later became a well-known pathologist. His sister Gretel went to Palestine in 1933 and was head teacher in a moshav.

In the summer of 1938 it was possible relatives in New York, Herman Neuberger to arrange a visa for the USA.

After briefly studying at the Ner Israel Yeshiva in Baltimore, he was appointed in 1942 at the Faculty. In the same year he married Judith Kramer. He soon became a sought-after teacher. Under his leadership, Ner Israel grew from a small school with 50 students to one of the largest facilities of its kind in the U.S. with over 800 students.

Neuberger followed a strict orthodoxy, but was open to dialogue with other faiths and social groups. After 1979, he was able to help much of the Jewish population to emigrate from Iran and enforce their recognition as refugees in the United States. He was one of the close advisers of almost all politicians in Maryland, as well as Senator Barbara Mikulski and Governor Robert L. Ehrlich.

• Rabbi (United States)
• Emigrant from the German Empire at the time of National Socialism
• Born in 1918
• Died in 2005
• German
• Man