Baruch Ophir

Baruch Zwi Ophir (born Benno Offenburg October 27, 1910 in Hamburg ; died April 5, 2004 in Jerusalem ) was a German historian.

Life

The son of Nathan Hirsch Offenburg graduated from the Heinrich-Hertz-Realgymnasium in 1929 and then studied history, philosophy and Semitic studies in Berlin, Jerusalem and Hamburg, where he wrote his historical dissertation The Awakening of German National Consciousness in Prussian Jewry: by Moses Mendelssohn in 1933 until the beginning of the reaction: submitted an intellectual-historical contribution to the history of emancipation of the German Jews , but the academic examination was unworthy.

In 1933 he first emigrated to Italy, where, as a member of the Misrachi youth movement, he ran an agricultural training center. In 1935 he went to a kibbutz in Palestine as a farm worker . He became a teacher and head of an agricultural high school.

The death of his father and stepmother in the Theresienstadt ghetto or Auschwitz concentration camp shaped his historical work. He compiled a history of the Jewish communities in Bavaria Pinkas Hakehillot, Germania, Bavaria (1972; the German version contains problematic cuts due to political consideration) and suggested a Hamburg memorial book. At the end of the 1960s, he founded the Association of Former Jewish Hamburgers, Bremen and Lübeckers in Israel in Hamburg . In the 1970s he worked at the Yad Vashem Memorial in Jerusalem .

In November 1991 Baruch Zwi Ophir received an honorary doctorate from the Department of Philosophy and History at the University of Hamburg .

See also

• Justus Hashagen

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ophir, Baruch Zwi - Das Jüdische Hamburg. In: dasjuedischehamburg.de. Retrieved January 10, 2015 . 
2. ↑ Robert Jütte : The emigration of the German-language "Wissenschaft des Judentums". Franz Steiner Verlag, 1991, ISBN 978-3-515-05798-1 , p. 106 ( limited preview in the Google book search).