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Tag Archives: German Jewish History
Jewish Liberal Newspaper, June 17, 1921
Guidelines for Revising Our Religious Services by Rabbi Dr. H. Fuchs (Chemnitz). Revolutionary times demand that we don’t just make small or larger improvements here and there but discuss foundational problems. Normal times rarely have the energy for this. Most … Continue reading
Going Home (a WWI Novella)
He almost greeted the outbreak of the war as a kind of salvation and he decided he had to go to France in those early August days, 1914, even though he had a premonition that the war would be an immense catastrophe for his German fatherland… Continue reading
Issue 27, June 10, 1921 Highlights
The lead article for the “Liberal Jewish Newspaper” of Breslau is authored by a Reform Jewish rabbi, Martin Salomonski (from Frankfurt on the Oder, later in Berlin) on the Feast of Weeks or Shavuot. Dr. Salmonski uses the meaning of … Continue reading
Jewish Liberal Newspaper, June 10, 1921
p.1 On the Feast of Weeks [Shavuot] by Rabbi Dr. Salomonski, Frankfurt (Oder) Just acknowledging the 10 commandments is not equivalent to a living Judaism. We have no intention to diminish these, which have now become all of humanity’s. Even … Continue reading
Jewish Liberal Newspaper, June 3, 1921
p.1 Philipp Bloch. It is with admiration and honor that we wish a veteran of reform Judaism congratulations on the completion of his 80th year. Philipp Bloch, born on May 30, 1841, is a child of the German East and … Continue reading
Jewish Liberal Newspaper, May 27, 1921
p. 1 National German Jews and the Middle Ranks. by Dr. Max Naumann (Berlin) [Translation] In Issue 14, March 4 of this publication in the article “On the National German Jews”, the lawyer Erich Spitz opposed Dr. Naumann‘s writing and … Continue reading
Restarting translations–why now?
Visitors to this site, I apologize for neglecting this project, not adding translations, not even blogging. It’s time to re-commit as I believe tracing early signals of antisemitism is unfortunately once again relevant as some Americans and Europeans are rekindling … Continue reading