Jakob Klatzkin

Jacob Klatzkin (* probably: October 3, 1882 in Kartuskaja Beresa, Poland, † probably: March 26, 1948 in Vevey, Switzerland, also name: Jacob / Yakov / Yakov / Jakub Klaczkin, Russian: Яков Клачкин, Hebrew יעקב קלצקין ) was a Hebrew philosophical writer and national Jewish publicist.

Life

He was the son of Rabbi Eliyahu Klaczkin ( Elijah ben Naftali heart Klatzkin, 1852 Oschpol *, † 1932 Jerusalem ), who worked as a rabbi in Marijampolė and Lublin and was one of the most important rabbinical authorities of his time.

There to Jacob Klatzkins life data in various differing data sources. Schoeps calls as date of birth 10 March 1882 Tetzlaff 1892 ( unlikely); Place of death as well as New York is specified ( Schoeps; Tetzlaff ), as well as day March 28 ( Schoeps ). After new family history sources from Vevey Place of death assumed ( " Klatzkin returned back to Switzerland, where he died ").

Jacob Klatzkin studied from about 1900 in Cohen in Marburg philosophy, but quickly went away from that and approached positions that already Baruch Spinoza ( Klatzkin translated his ethics into Hebrew ), should represent much later in antiintellektualistisch - vitalistic modified form Bergson.

From 1909 to 1911 was Klatzkin out the Zionist organ Die Welt, from 1912 to 1915, the Outdoor Zionist leaves (not to be confused with the eponymous " radical Zionist " publications that Klatzkin together with N. Goldmann several months of 1921, edited ).

Jacob Klatzkin founded in 1923 in Berlin -Charlottenburg, together with Nachum Goldmann the Eshkol -Verlag, was ( 1927-1934 ) and founder (together with N. Goldmann and Ismar Elbogen ) editor of the Encyclopaedia Judaica and also its Hebrew parallel output (ten German volumes, two Hebrew books, by the Nazis forced abandonment of the ambitious enterprise). He was among other things, the Thesaurus Linguae Philosophicus Hebraicae out ( 4 volumes, 1926 et seq ) and acquired thus a lasting contribution to the modern Hebrew philosophy and the development of their own terminology.

Klatzkin was a radical Galutverneiner who saw the utter destruction of the Jews outside Palestine, only territory and de facto power recognized, however, considered cultural, spiritual aspects of Judaism or even a ( harmful ) in election as totally irrelevant.

In 1933 he escaped the killings in Europe and went on to Switzerland in 1941 in the USA, and there at the College of Jewish Studies in Chicago. In academic circles in Israel, he still finds little recognition for his accomplishments made work.

Works (selection)

  • Otzar munahim ha - philosophim ( philosophical terms, 4 volumes, published in Berlin )
  • Mischnat Rishonim ( philosophical anthology, published in Berlin)
  • Schkijatahajim ( philosophical discussions; published in Berlin)
  • Trumim, zutot ( posthumously )
  • Mischnat achonim ( posthumously )
  • Tavim ( posthumously )
  • Problems of modern Judaism, Berlin 1918 ( effective historically influential reflection of his Zionist positions )
  • Hermann Cohen, Berlin 1919
  • Crisis and decision in Judaism, Berlin 1921 ( with similar contents as problems ... )
  • The desire for knowledge as a life and death principle, Zurich 1935
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