Arthur Spanier

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Arthur Spanier (born November 17, 1889 in Magdeburg ; died March 30, 1944 in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp ) was a German Judaist .

Life

Spanier was born the son of the Jewish educator and author Moritz Spanier and Helene Spanier, née Lehmann. He first studied from 1908 to 1913 at the College for the Science of Judaism in Berlin and at the University of Berlin Classical Philology . In 1914 he passed the state examination for higher education. He took part in the First World War as a soldier from 1915 to 1918 and was awarded the EK II . From 1919 to 1921 he worked at the Academy for the Science of Judaism . In 1920 he was at the University of Freiburg with a thesis entitled The Logos didaskalikos the Platonist Albinus Dr. phil. PhD. From 1921 he worked in the Prussian State Library in the department for Judaica and Hebraica , whose head he was from 1926 until his dismissal and forced retirement in 1935. During this time he also worked on the Jewish Lexicon .

In 1935 he became a lecturer in Talmud at the Institute for the Science of Judaism in Berlin and published works on the Tosefta and on Masoretic accents, among other things .

In November 1938 he had to spend several weeks in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in connection with the November pogroms . He received a call to the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati , Ohio, but no visa from the US Embassy in Berlin. In 1939 he emigrated to Holland to wait for his immigration permit, but the US consulate refused to grant it. In Amsterdam he worked on the Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana . After the German invasion, he fell into the hands of the occupiers in 1942, was deported to the Westerbork transit camp and then deported to Bergen-Belsen, where he was murdered.

Works (selection)

  • The Tosefta Period in Tannaitic Literature. CA Schwetschke & Sohn publishing house bookstore, Berlin 1922 ( digital ).
  • The Massoretic accents. A presentation of their system together with contributions to understanding their development. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1927 ( digital ).
  • The divine designations ha-maqom and ha-qidusch baruk hu. In: Monthly for the history and science of Judaism. Issue 4/1922.
  • To the mixed natural tract Tamid. In: Monthly for the history and science of Judaism. Issue 5/1925.
  • About remnants of Palestinian vocalization in prayer books. In: Monthly for the history and science of Judaism. Issue 7/1929.
  • On the history of forms of ancient Jewish prayer. In: Monthly for the history and science of Judaism. Issue 4/1934.
  • Critical to the style of Jewish prayer. In: Monthly for the history and science of Judaism. Issue 4/1936.
  • The first benediction of the eighteen prayer. In: Monthly for the history and science of Judaism. Issue 1/1937.
  • Duplicates in prayer texts. In: Monthly for the history and science of Judaism. Issue 1 (January) 1939.

Literature (selection)

  • Siegmund Kaznelson (ed.): Jews in the German cultural area. Berlin 1962, p.?.
  • Walter Tetzlaff: 2000 short biographies of important German Jews of the 20th century. Askania, Lindhorst 1982, ISBN 3-921730-10-4 , p.?.
  • Alwin Müller-Jerina: Jewish Librarians 1933 to 1945. A project report. In: Peter Vodosek (Ed.): Libraries during National Socialism. Volume 1, Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1989 ISBN 3-447-02947-1 , p.

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personal data
SURNAME Spaniard, Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Judaist
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 1944
Place of death Bergen-Belsen concentration camp