Andreas Nachama

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Andreas Nachama (2015)

Andreas Nachama (born November 27, 1951 in Berlin ) is a German historian, journalist and rabbi . For many years he was managing director of the Topography of Terror Foundation .

education

From 1972 to 1981 Nachama studied history and Jewish studies at the Free University of Berlin . For a time he visited the Leo Baeck College in London as a visiting student and also attended lectures in Israel . He completed his studies with a Magister Artium in 1976 and a doctorate in 1981.

Work as a scientist

Andreas Nachama at the opening of the Papestrasse SA prison memorial site

Nachama worked from 1977 to 1979 as a research assistant at the chair for modern history at the Ruhr University in Bochum . From 1980 to 1993 he was employed as a manager at the Berliner Festspiele and as such was responsible, among other things, for the coordination and public relations work for the Berlin 750th anniversary celebration in 1987. Since 1987 he has directed the permanent exhibition Topography of Terror in Berlin, from 1994 to 2019 he was managing director of the Topography of Terror Foundation. In addition to this activity, he was active in other functions, including from 1992 to 1999 as artistic director of the Jewish Culture Days in Berlin. In 2005 he was appointed professor at the Lander Institute for Communication about the Holocaust and Tolerance at Touro College Berlin , where he worked until 2015.

Nachama was appointed to the Federal Government's Anti-Semitism Commission in May 2015 .

Work in the Jewish community

Nachama had been a part-time assistant to Rabbi Louis Fischer at the Chaplain Center of the US Army in Berlin since 1973. This ended in 1993 after the troops withdrew from Berlin. From 1997 to 2001 he was chairman of the board of the Berlin Jewish Community and at the same time a member of the board of directors of the Central Council of Jews in Germany and governor of the World Union for Progressive Judaism . In 2000, he was ordained rabbi by the Aleph Seminary in New York State and has since served as a volunteer rabbi in the liberal synagogue community of Sukkat Schalom, first in the Hüttenweg synagogue, which was reopened in 1999, in the building of the former Chaplain Center, and now in the Herbartstrasse synagogue . Nachama is a member of the General Rabbinical Conference of Germany (ARK), which he has chaired since 2019.

Rabbi Nachama has been the Jewish chairman of the German Coordination Council of Societies for Christian-Jewish Cooperation since May 2016 .

Work as a publicist

During his studies, Nachama worked from 1977 to 1981 as a freelance journalist for various radio and television stations (e.g. SFB , ZDF , DLF , RIAS ). Since then he has published several books, alone and in collaboration with others, and published articles in various newspapers and magazines.

“I don't think religion is necessarily something that divides people. It contains many elements that could bring them together. "

- Andreas Nachama : Die Tageszeitung , December 28, 2019

Functions

Andreas Nachama since 2019 Chairman of the General Rabbinical Conference Germany and the Board of Trustees of interreligious project House of One on Petriplatz in Berlin district of Mitte .

Honors

Private

Andreas Nachama is the son of the Berlin chief cantor Estrongo Nachama . He is divorced and has two children. His son Alexander is a Judaist , cantor and rabbi and has been the state rabbi of the Jewish state community of Thuringia since September 2018 .

Fonts

  • Substitute Citizens and State Building. On the destruction of the bourgeoisie in Brandenburg-Prussia (=  writings on European social and constitutional history . Volume 1 ). Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main; Bern; New York 1984, ISBN 3-8204-7417-X (267 pages, also Berlin, Free University, dissertation, 1983).
  • with Hendrik Budde: The trip to Jerusalem, a cultural and historical excursion to the city of cities, 3000 years of the City of David . Argon, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-87024-334-1 (On the exhibition of the 9th Jewish Culture Days in the Great Orangery, Charlottenburg Palace Berlin from November 22, 1995 to February 29, 1996. Berlin Jewish Community).
  • Yiddish in Berlin jargon . Jaron, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-89773-523-7 .
  • Jewish worlds (3 volumes). Jüdischer Verlag, Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1991, 1992, ISBN 3-633-54071-7 .
    • Part 1: Catalog for the exhibition , 1991, ISBN 3-633-54047-4 .
    • Part 2: Essays , on the occasion of the exhibition “Jewish Worlds” in the Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin, January 12th - April 26th, 1992, ISBN 3-633-54048-2 .
    • Part 3: Documentation of the exhibition : Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, 12 January to 26 April 1992, translated by Sachiko Aoki-Kopplow, 1992, ISBN 3-633-54071-7 .
  • Renew our days, Jewish things from Berlin . Philo, Berlin / Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-8257-0225-1 .
  • The Jews in Berlin (3 volumes), Henschel, Leipzig 2001 to 2009, ISBN 3-89487-336-1 .
    • Volume 1: The Jews in Berlin , 2001, ISBN 3-89487-336-1 .
    • Volume 2: Biographies (edited by Elke-Vera Kotowski), 2005, ISBN 3-89487-461-9 .
    • Volume 3: Pictures, documents, self-testimonials (edited by Irene A. Diekmann, with the collaboration of Sabine Schröder), 2009, ISBN 978-3-89487-611-1 .
  • With Ulrich Eckhardt : Jewish Berliners. Life after the Shoah. Jaron, Berlin 2003 ISBN 3-89773-068-5 .
  • with Ulrich Eckhardt: Jewish places in Berlin , with features by Heinz Knobloch and photos by Elke Nord, Nicolai, Berlin 2005, ISBN 978-3-89479-165-0 .
  • The Nazi Forced Labor Documentation Center Berlin-Schöneweide. For the conception of an exhibition, archive and learning location . Topography of Terror Foundation, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-9807205-8-6 (2nd edition 2007).
  • Topography of Terror Foundation (ed.): Notes :
    • Volume 1: Andreas Nachama, Klaus Hesse (ed.): Before everyone's eyes: the deportation of the Jews and the auctioning of their property; Photographs from Lörrach, 1940, Hentrich & Hentrich, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-942271-45-5 .
    • Volume 2: Andreas Nachama, Klaus Hesse (eds.): Synagogue Grunewald Memorial Site, Hentrich & Hentrich, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-942271-46-2 .
  • Andreas Nachama, Walter Homolka , Hartmut Bomhoff: Basic knowledge of Judaism . 1st edition. Herder, 2015, ISBN 978-3-451-32393-5 (688 pages).

As editor

  • Shema tefilatenu: prayers for the Jewish festival and life cycle; for use in synagogues, schools and homes; from the collection of Chief Cantor Estrongo Nachama , with an introduction by Andreas Nachama and a preface by Walter Homolka, Hentrich & Hentrich, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-95565-058-2 .
  • Alephbeth: the Hebrew reading primer for beginners, with an introduction by Andreas Nachama, Hentrich & Hentrich, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-95565-081-0 (reprint of the first edition of the Allgemeine Wochenzeitung der Juden in Deutschland, Düsseldorf 1953).
  • Andreas Nachama, Jonah Sievers (ed.): Jewish prayer book Hebrew-German: Shabbat and working days . 3. Edition. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 2009, ISBN 978-3-579-02595-7 (296 pages).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Topography of Terror" Director: "Remembrance work is always controversial" Interview, Deutschlandfunk, January 2, 2020
  2. ↑ a b Rabbi Dr. Andreas Nachama: About the person. the Nachama homepage. In: nachama.de. Retrieved May 13, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Nachama and Chernivsky in committee - de Maizière calls Jewish experts in anti-Semitism Commission - Central Council welcomes decision. In: Jüdische Allgemeine. Central Council of Jews in Germany Kdö.R., May 21, 2015, accessed on December 16, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Rabbi Prof. Dr. Andreas Nachama. Rabbi of the Sukkat Schalom synagogue of the Jewish community in Berlin . In: ark.de / The Rabbis of the ARK. General Rabbinical Conference Germany, accessed on May 13, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Andreas Nachama new chairman. In: www.juedische-allgemeine.de. February 16, 2019, accessed February 16, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Ayala Goldmann: Respectful interaction - Rabbi Andreas Nachama on his new presidency in the Christian-Jewish dialogue. In: Jüdische Allgemeine. Central Council of Jews in Germany Kdö.R., May 26, 2016, accessed on December 16, 2016 .
  7. ↑ a b Susanne Memarnia: "Politics is not helpful". In: The daily newspaper . December 28, 2019, accessed on December 30, 2019 (interview with Andreas Nachama).
  8. ↑ Rabbi Nachama receives the Moses Mendelssohn Medal , deutschlandfunkkultur.de, published and accessed on August 29, 2019.
  9. ^ Tobias Schrörs: Jewish community in Erfurt. Hope for a good and sweet year. In: faz.net. September 11, 2018, accessed February 16, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Tomas Gärtner: Rabbi Alexander Nachama leaves Dresden. In: dnn.de. April 28, 2018, accessed on February 16, 2019 (... and will be the new state rabbi in Thuringia).
  11. ^ General rabbinical conference. Rabbi Alexander Nachama. In: ark.de. Retrieved February 16, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Nachama, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publicist and rabbi
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin