Bernard Dov Weinryb

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Recent Economic History of the Jews in Russia and Poland (1934)
The struggle for professional redeployment (1936)

Bernard Dov Weinryb , also seeker Berek Weinryb (born May 15, 1900 in Turobin , Russian Empire ; died July 1982 in the USA ) was a Polish-American historian.

Life

Sucher Berek Weinryb attended the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau from 1926 to 1929 and from 1927 the University of Breslau , where he received his doctorate in 1932 under Friedrich Andreae and Siegfried Kaehler . Other teachers were Hermann Aubin and Richard Koebner . From 1931 to 1933 he was a librarian at the Breslau seminary. The dissertation Economic Life of the Jews in Russia and Poland was published in 1934 in Breslau. From 1933 to 1934 he worked in the editorial department of the Encyclopaedia Judaica . In 1934 he emigrated to Palestine and taught at the School for Social Work in Jerusalem from 1935 to 1939 . He was a lecturer at the business school in Tel Aviv and worked from 1938/39 at an economic research institute in Jerusalem.

In 1939 he went to the United States on a visitor visa and received American citizenship. He studied at Columbia University and was employed between 1941 and 1947 as a lecturer at the Jewish Teachers Seminary New York . From 1948 to 1964 he was a professor at Yeshiva University in New York and in parallel, a professor of economic history at Dropsie College of the University of Pennsylvania . He was a lecturer at Brooklyn College from 1948 to 1951 and worked for the State Department from 1951 to 1955 . He has received various grants and research grants and has held various visiting professorships.

Weinryb became a member a. a. the American Historical Association , the American Economic Association , the Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, and the Historical Society of Israel . He was named a lifetime fellow at the American Academy for Jewish Research.

Weinryb has published 16 books and over 400 articles. He received the National Jewish Book Award for the economic history of the Jews in Poland, published in 1972, which he dedicated to his co-author and wife Doris.

Weinryb last lived outside of Philadelphia in Merion, Montgomery County .

Fonts (selection)

  • Latest economic history of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Part: 1. Economic life d. Jews in Russia a. Poland from d. 1st Polish part until the death of Alexander II (1772-1881) . Breslau: Marcus 1934
    • 2., revised. u. exp. Ed., Revised. u. exp. Reprint d. Ed. Breslau 1934. Hildesheim: Olms, 1972
  • with M. Teitelbaum: Practical crash course for New Hebrew: easy method on a natural basis for courses, individual and self-teaching . Breslau: Brandeis, 1933
  • with David Samuel Loewinger: Yiddish manuscripts in Breslau . Budapest, 1936.
    • with David Samuel Loewinger: Catalog of the Hebrew manuscripts in the library of the Juedisch-Theologisches Seminar in Breslau . Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1965
  • The struggle for professional redeployment: an excerpt from the history of the Jews in Germany . Adolf Leschnitzer on behalf of the Reich Representation of Jews in Germany (Ed.): Jüdische Reading Booklets , Issue 13. Berlin: Schocken, 1936
  • Jewish emancipation under attack: its legal recession until the present was . New York: American Jewish Committee 1942
  • The Yishuv in Palestine structure and organization . New York National Education and Political Committees of Hadassah, 1948
  • Jewish vocational education: history and appraisal of training in Europe . New York: JTSP, 1948
  • Meir Ben-Horin, Bernard D. Weinryb, Solomon Zeitlin (eds.): Studies and essays in honor of Abraham A. Neuman . Leiden: EJ Brill, 1962
  • The Jews of Poland; a social and economic history of the Jewish community in Poland from 1100 to 1800 . Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1972, 1976²

literature

  • Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): Biographisches Handbuch der Deutschensprachigen Emigration nach 1933 / International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 , Vol II, 2 Munich: Saur 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 1224 f.
  • Article Weinryb, Bernard Dov Sucher in: Encyclopaedia Judaica , Volume 16, 1973, Col. 406 f.
  • Robert Jütte : The emigration of the German-speaking “Science of Judaism”: the emigration of Jewish historians to Palestine 1933–1945. Steiner, Stuttgart 1991.
  • Social Security Death Index (USA): Born May 15, 1900; Died July 1982.

Web links

Commons : Bernard Dov Weinryb  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ jewishgen.org, accessed September 30, 2019
  2. ↑ Weinryb's biographical data are not secured, year of birth here according to HdE.
  3. ↑ Robert Jütte: The emigration of the German-language "Wissenschaft des Judentums" , 1991, p. 146
personal data
SURNAME Weinryb, Bernard Dov
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weinryb, Seeker Berek
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian
DATE OF BIRTH uncertain: May 15, 1900 or May 15, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Turobin , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH July 1982
Place of death United States