Abraham Geiger College
Abraham Geiger College at the University of Potsdam | |
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founding | 1999 |
place | Potsdam |
state | Brandenburg |
country | Germany |
management | Walter Homolka |
Website | www.abraham-geiger-kolleg.de (English) |
The Abraham Geiger College, founded in Potsdam in 1999, is a rabbinical seminary , an institute affiliated with the University of Potsdam in the Federal Republic of Germany and the first such new establishment in continental Europe after the Shoah . It is named after Abraham Geiger , an important representative of liberal Judaism in Germany, and was brought into being by the rabbis Walter Jacob and Walter Homolka . Walter Homolka has been the rector of the college since the beginning. It has also trained cantors since 2008 .
Integration into national and international structures
The Abraham Geiger College has been a member of the World Union for Progressive Judaism since 2001 . Its graduates have been accredited by the Central Conference of American Rabbis since 2005 . The ordination of the first class took place on September 14, 2006: Daniel Alter , Tomáš Kučera and Malcolm Mattitiani were appointed rabbis. Alter looked after the Jewish community in Oldenburg from September 2006 to July 2008 , while Kučera was in charge of the liberal Jewish community in Munich Beth Shalom . Mattitiani returned to South Africa and took over the spiritual direction of the Temple of Israel Congregation in Cape Town .
This was the first ordination in Germany since 1942, when the University for the Science of Judaism in Berlin was closed by the Gestapo .
The five-year training takes place in cooperation with the College of Jewish Studies . She graduated with a Magister in Jewish Studies . The college is an affiliated institute of the University of Potsdam . It is funded by the Federal Republic of Germany, the Conference of Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs of all German federal states, the Central Council of Jews in Germany , the State of Brandenburg and the Leo Baeck Foundation .
In 2007 the college was recognized as a “Landmark in the Land of Ideas ”, a location initiative under the patronage of Federal President Horst Köhler . The same award was given to the cantor training in 2009.
In 2010 Alina Treiger was the first woman in Germany to be ordained a rabbi by the college after Regina Jonas, who was murdered in 1944 .
Abraham Geiger Prize
Since 2000, the college has awarded the Abraham Geiger Prize for “Services to Judaism in its Diversity”, usually every two years . The prize sum, once donated by Karl-Hermann Blickle in 2000, is 10,000 euros.
Previous winners:
- 2000: Susannah Heschel
- 2002: Emil Fackenheim
- 2004: Alfred Grosser
- 2006: Karl Lehmann
- 2008: Hassan ibn Talal
- 2009: Hans Küng
- 2011: Helen Zille
- 2013: Annette Schavan
- 2015: Angela Merkel
- 2017: Amos Oz
- 2020: Christian Stückl
Emil Fackenheim Lecture
The college invites important representatives of the Judaic sciences, who combine tradition and modernity through their work, as well as other personalities.
- 2003: John Desmond Rayner
- 2004: Daniel Boyarin , University of California, Berkeley
- 2005: Jacob Allerhand , University of Vienna
- 2007: Michael Marmur , Hebrew Union College , Jerusalem
- 2008: Shimon Shetreet , Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- 2009: Seth Kunin , University of Durham
- 2010: David Biale , University of California, Davis
- 2011: David Ruderman , University of Pennsylvania
- 2012: Hanna Liss , College for Jewish Studies
- 2013: René Bloch , University of Bern
- 2014: Giuseppe Veltri , University of Hamburg
- 2016: Volker Beck , German Bundestag
- 2017: Tamara Cohn Eskenazi , Hebrew Union College Los Angeles
Web links
- Official website (English)
- Official site of the Leo Baeck Foundation (English)
- Antonia Loick: Germany's only rabbi seminar: the Abraham Geiger College in Potsdam. (No longer available online.) In: goethe.de. Goethe-Institut , November 2006, archived from the original on August 1, 2009 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Chajm Guski: First rabbi ordination in Germany after the Shoah. (No longer available online.) In: talmud.de. Chajm Guski, September 2006, archived from the original on July 31, 2009 ; accessed on December 7, 2018 .
- ^ Otto Hirsch Award - 2007 - Karl-Hermann Blickle. In: stuttgart.de, accessed on July 22, 2017.
- ↑ a b Abraham Geiger Prize 2017. In: abraham-geiger-kolleg.de, accessed on May 18, 2017 (German, English).
- ↑ Abraham Geiger Prize. (No longer available online.) In: abraham-geiger-kolleg.de. Archived from the original on October 1, 2012 ; accessed on December 7, 2018 (German; award winner until 2011). ( English; all award winners ).
- ↑ Merkel awarded the Abraham Geiger Prize for services to Judaism. In: domradio.de. Domradio , December 3, 2015, accessed on December 3, 2015 .
- ↑ The Abraham Geiger Prize goes to Christian Stückl. Domradio , January 15, 2020, accessed on January 15, 2020 .
- ^ Emil Fackenheim Lectures. (No longer available online.) In: abraham-geiger-kolleg.de. February 10, 2013, archived from the original ; accessed on December 7, 2018 (English, all lecturers until 2011).
- ^ Ruth Schulhof-Walter: An award ceremony. In: Gemeindeblatt. December 2016, p. 11; online at: sgk.de. Synagogue Community Cologne , accessed on July 22, 2017 (PDF; 911 kB; PDF-p. 1).
- ↑ Welcome Welcome. ברוכים הבאים. Annotated course catalog. Summer semester 2017, p. 22, 24, 32 (Fackenheim Lecture at Forum Religionen im Context: Sources for survival and transformation: The women of the bible ). In: abraham-geiger-kolleg.de, accessed on July 22, 2017 (PDF; 495 kB).
Coordinates: 52 ° 24 ′ 4 " N , 13 ° 0 ′ 43" E