Nahum Norbert Glatzer

Nahum Norbert Glatzer ( born March 25, 1903 in Lemberg, Austria - Hungary, † 27 February 1990 in Tucson, Arizona) was an American rabbi.

Life

Glatzer studied in Frankfurt am Main, first at the yeshiva Breuer, then at the University of Oriental Studies, Philosophy and History of Religion. 1932 was the PhD. From 1923 he lectured on Biblical exegesis and Midrash at the house of study Frankfurt, he taught at the University of Frankfurt Jewish religious history and ethics in the wake of Martin Buber.

In 1938 Glatzer from the Nazis, first to Palestine. Later he taught in the USA. Since 1950 he was a professor of Jewish history at Brandeis University in Boston, since 1957 director of the Department of Semitic Studies.

Since 1956 he was a member of the Executive Board of the Leo Baeck Institute, New York, 1959-1960 Guggenheim Fellow.

He was a member of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and the Encyclopedia Judaica.

The American documentary filmmaker and art historian Judith Wechsler 's his daughter.

Works (selection)

• A Jewish reader. Mission and destiny. From the literature of the post-biblical Judaism, Berlin ( Schocken ) 1931 ( jointly with Ludwig Strauss)
• Study of the historical teachings of the Tannaim, 1932 ( both Diss phil. )
• History of the Talmudic period, 1937
• Franz Rosenzweig, his Life and Work, 1953
• Leopold Zunz. Jew, German, European, Tübingen 1964
• Hillel, a representative of classical Judaism, Gütersloh 1966
• Moses Maimonides. A cross section of his work, Cologne 1966
• Beginnings of Judaism. An Introduction, Gütersloh 1966
• The essential Philo, 1970