Abraham Klausner

Abraham Judah Klausner (born April 27, 1915 in Memphis , Tennessee ; died June 28, 2007 in Santa Fe , New Mexico ) was a Reform Jewish rabbi, military rabbi, and captain in the United States Army .

Life

Raised in Denver , he attended the University of Denver and the Hebrew Union College and joined the US Army as a military rabbi. In May 1945 he was one of the first to arrive with the 116th Evacuation Hospital at Dachau concentration camp near Munich. He stayed here for a few weeks and started traveling through Bavaria in July to look for survivors in other camps. He made lists of survivors ( Sharit ha-Platah ), which he sent to other camps.

He received his doctorate from Harvard University and then worked at the synagogue in Boston and from around 1964 to 1989 at the Temple Emanu-El in Yonkers , NY.

Works

Passover Seder Service. (MUSAF LE-HAGGADAH SHEL PESACH ) Deutsches Theater Restaurant, Munich , Germany, April 15 - 16, 1946, conducting Caplain Abraham Klausner. Illustrations by Zvi Miklos Adler, text (Hebrew, Yiddish) Yosef Dov Sheinson. Passover Munich Enclave, 1946;
- reprint: Yosef Dov Sheinson, A Survivors' Haggadah . Woodcuts by Miklós Adler. Facsimile with English translation, ed. And commentator Saul Touster. Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia 2000
  - Review: This is the bread of bitterness. "Pour your anger." A Jewish anthology in Germany. FAZ, April 20, 2000

literature

Ronny Loewy : These are the people. About Abraham J. Klausner's film about the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the American Zone. In: Fritz Bauer Institute (Ed.): Survived and on the move: Jewish Displaced Persons in post-war Germany . 1997 yearbook on the history and impact of the Holocaust. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt 1997, pp. 119–128.

Web links

Jocelyn Y. Stewart: Abraham J. Klausner, 92; rabbi was an advocate for Holocaust survivors , obituary, Los Angeles Times, July 4, 2007

notes

↑ Ha'aretz, pictures, article by Chen Malul, National Library of Israel, March 25, 2018, with a list of participants in the celebration, mostly US soldiers. At the same time there was another celebration in Munich, the v. a. has been visited by survivors.
↑ From this: On April 15, 1946, Levi Shalit, editor of the Yiddish newspaper "Undzer Weg" in Munich, wrote about the upcoming Passover festival: "Do not tell that your children were gassed in chambers. Do not tell about your enslavement. Do not draw parallels between Hitler and Pharaoh, but instead let us read the old Haggadah, which has always renewed us in the Diaspora.

personal data
SURNAME	Klausner, Abraham
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Klausner, Abraham Judah (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Reform Jewish rabbi, military rabbi and captain in the United States Army
DATE OF BIRTH	April 27, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH	Memphis , Tennessee
DATE OF DEATH	June 28, 2007
Place of death	Santa Fe , New Mexico

[1] Ha'aretz, pictures, article by Chen Malul, National Library of Israel, March 25, 2018, with a list of participants in the celebration, mostly US soldiers. At the same time there was another celebration in Munich, the v. a. has been visited by survivors.

[2] From this: On April 15, 1946, Levi Shalit, editor of the Yiddish newspaper "Undzer Weg" in Munich, wrote about the upcoming Passover festival: "Do not tell that your children were gassed in chambers. Do not tell about your enslavement. Do not draw parallels between Hitler and Pharaoh, but instead let us read the old Haggadah, which has always renewed us in the Diaspora.