Bruno Hussar

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Bruno Hussar (born May 5, 1911 in Cairo , Egypt ; † February 8, 1996 in Jerusalem ) was a French-Israeli Catholic priest and founder of Neve Shalom / Wahat al-Salam in Israel .

Life

Bruno Hussar was born in Cairo to Jewish parents who were French citizens . In France, Bruno Hussar first completed an engineering degree. During his studies in France in 1935 he converted from Judaism to Catholicism and became involved in theology . He made contact with the Dominican Order of Preachers and joined this order . He was ordained a priest in 1950. During the Second Vatican Council Bruno Hussar, at the invitation of Cardinal Augustin Bea, worked as an expert in the Secretariat for Christian Unity on the formulation of the Council Declaration Nostra Aetate .

Hussar's grave in Neve Shalom

In 1953 he came to Haifa (Israel) for the first time . From 1960 he was a Catholic pastor in charge of the Hebrew-speaking Catholic community in Jerusalem. The meeting of different religions in Israel made him want a rapprochement and a deeper understanding of the differences between the great world religions in the following years. Eventually he leased a piece of land on a hill that was no man's land until 1967 and that belonged to the Trappist Latrun Abbey . Bruno Hussar, who himself became an Israeli citizen in 1966, founded the Neve Shalom settlement (Arabic: Wahat al-Salam ) with a few volunteers there in 1970 . According to Bruno Hussar's vision, the settlement should be a village of peace in which Christians, Jews and Muslims should live together despite different religions, with respect and mutual respect.

Publications

  • Bruno Hussar: A way of reconciliation . Jews, Christians and Muslims in Israel . Translated from the French by Manuel Schiffler and Paulus Engelhardt. Topos paperback books, Matthias-Grünewald Verlag, Mainz 1988. ISBN 3-7867-1380-4 .

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Article in the BBKL, see literature
  2. ↑ www.zeitenschrift.com
personal data
SURNAME Hussar, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French-Israeli Catholic priest
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Cairo , Egypt
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 1996
Place of death Jerusalem