Conrad Rosenstein

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Conrad Rosenstein (also Konrad Rosenstein and with the suffix Naftali ; born February 7, 1910 in Berlin ; died September 18, 1977 in Jerusalem , Israel ) was a German-Israeli doctor , teacher , author and journalist .

Life

Conrad Rosenstein had Eastern Jewish roots: his grandfather came from Estonia , his grandmother from Lithuania . They first moved to Czernikau in the Prussian province of Posen and finally to Potsdam , where their grandfather, Zemach Schönberger (1852–1906), was a cantor and founded the General German Cantor Association , which he led until his death. Their daughter Johanna attended the conservatory in Potsdam and then worked as a music teacher. Theodor Schönberger, one of her brothers, taught at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin. Johanna married the merchant Alfred Rosenstein from Samotschin, today's Szamocin , with whom she moved to Berlin. Their first son Conrad Rosenstein was born there. When Alfred Rosenstein had to move into the First World War , he sold his hospital clothing business. From then on, Johanna Rosenstein looked after herself and her two sons with private piano lessons and choir singing in the Fasanenstrasse synagogue . Her brother Theodor Schönberger conducted the choir. Furthermore, in this synagogue Conrad Rosenstein was Bar Mitzvah under Leo Baeck .

The eleven-year-old stayed in Zurich in 1921 as part of a transport for children in need of recreation and seven years later as an exchange student in France. He was chairman of the youth organization of the German League for Human Rights . He met Ernst Toller at their events . Already a good speaker himself, he attended the recitation evenings of Ludwig Wüllner and Ludwig Hardt and was the third one of his role models to the theater actor Alexander Moissi . My own recitations were preceded by explanatory essays .

He started studying dentistry in Würzburg . He evaded the openly anti-Semitic mood in Würzburg, made acceptable by the National Socialists , by moving to the University of Freiburg im Breisgau . Before state examination he was rector Martin Heidegger in 1933 expelled and closed on the advice of his uncle Julius Schönberger his training in Switzerland from. He did his doctorate in Bern with Hans Bluntschli .

Back in Germany, he did not receive a license to practice medicine . Therefore, he retrained to become a dental technician . During this time he wrote his first novel manuscript , which he sent to Thomas Mann , from which he received warm approval. Rosenstein took an unpaid job as a dental volunteer assistant in the Jewish polyclinic "Sickness Aid of the Jewish Community", which was located in a passage opposite the police headquarters on Alexanderplatz .

In the mid-1930s he attended Hebrew courses from the Zionist Organization . In October 1936 he emigrated to Palestine and settled in the kibbutz Kirjat Anavim (Kiriath A-nawim; Qiryat 'Anavim) in the Jerusalem district; after 1939 his parents from Berlin also escaped there. For a time he worked in a Jerusalem polyclinic. He worked as an educator and teacher as part of the children's and youth aliyah . During World War II , he became the first kibbutzim public relations officer in Palestine. In 1947 he prepared Jewish refugees in refugee camps in Cyprus for their life in Palestine. In 1966 he finished his medical career and worked from then on as a journalist, teacher and supervisor for foreign volunteers and tour guides for guests in the kibbutzim.

Naftali Conrad Rosenstein, as he was called in Israel, died in Jerusalem on September 18, 1977 and was buried the next day in his kibbutz Kirjat Anavim.

Publications

Conrad Rosenstein wrote almost exclusively in German, in addition to journalistic texts, novels, short stories and a play; some things remained unpublished. As a journalist, he preferred to write articles for Israeli and international newspapers on his specialty areas “Kibbutz” and “Thomas Mann”. He published mostly in the Tel Aviv newspapers Jedioth Hajom and Jedioth Chadashot and the Jerusalem newspaper Israel News . Apart from in anthologies of the Federal Republic of Germany , Finland and the USA, his stories were also published in periodicals , as were his novels and extracts from novels, for example the journal Literatur undkritik printed an excerpt from The Last Sings of the Sirens in 1977 .

His autobiography Der Brunnen received particular attention . A family chronicle . From it is often quoted extensively, such as in Christina von Braun in de Publisher Walter Gruyter published book What was German Jewry? , in the third volume of German-Jewish history in modern times from the publishing house CHBeck or in the second volume of Jewish life in Germany , which the Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt , Stuttgart, published, as well as its short edition Citizens on Revocation published by CHBeck . Testimonies of German Jews 1780–1945 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Conrad Rosenstein: The fountain. A family chronicle . Ed .: Leo Baeck Institute . 1958, p. 2 ( digital.cjh.org [PDF; 87.2 MB ; accessed on January 17, 2018] digitized manuscript).
  2. ↑ Rosenstein, Brunnen , p. 3.
  3. ↑ Rosenstein, Brunnen , p. 5.
  4. ↑ Rosenstein, Brunnen , p. 7.
  5. ↑ a b Rosenstein, Brunnen , p. 6.
  6. ↑ a b Rosenstein, Brunnen , p. 17.
  7. ↑ Rosenstein, Brunnen , p. 18.
  8. ↑ Rosenstein, Brunnen , p. 25.
  9. ↑ Rosenstein, Brunnen , p. 20.
  10. ↑ Rosenstein, Brunnen , p. 23.
  11. ↑ Rosenstein, Brunnen , p. 22.
  12. ↑ Rosenstein, Brunnen , p. 28.
  13. ↑ Rosenstein, Brunnen , p. 35.
  14. ↑ a b Rosenstein, Brunnen , p. 38.
  15. ↑ Rosenstein, Brunnen , p. 39.
  16. ↑ a b Rosenstein, Brunnen , p. 40.
  17. ↑ Rosenstein, Brunnen , p. 48.
  18. ↑ Rosenstein, Brunnen , p. 52.
  19. ↑ Rosenstein, Brunnen , p. 53.
  20. ↑ Rosenstein, Brunnen , p. 56.
  21. ↑ a b c d Rosenstein, Brunnen , p. 58.
  22. ↑ The Adass Yisroel Hospital. Pogrom night and the end. In: adassjisroel.de. Israelite Synagogue Congregation (Adass Jisroel) zu Berlin Kdö.R., accessed on January 17, 2018 .
  23. ↑ Rosenstein, Brunnen , p. 59.
  24. ↑ Rosenstein, Brunnen , p. 61.
  25. ↑ Rosenstein, Brunnen , p. 63 f.
  26. ↑ a b c Schalom Ben-Chorin : Dr. Naftali C. Rosenstein sA In: Israel Nachrichten . September 1977 (exact date not given).
  27. ^ Conrad N. Rosenstein Archive. Short biography / history of the institution. In: adk.de. Retrieved January 17, 2018 .
  28. ↑ Conrad Rosenstein: From: The last songs of the sirens . In: literature and criticism . No. 118 , September 1977, p. 471-475 .
  29. ^ Frank Mecklenburg: Next year in Worms: German Judaism and anti-Zionism before 1933 . In: Christina von Braun (ed.): What was German Judaism? 1870-1933 . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / Munich / Boston 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-040045-8 , pp. 42 f .
  30. ^ Steven M. Lowenstein, Paul Mendes-Flohr , Peter Pulzer , Monika Richarz : German-Jewish History in the Modern Age. 1871-1910 . Ed .: Michael A. Meyer , Michael Brenner . Third volume. CH Beck, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-406-39704-2 , Chapter IV. The religious life. 2. Institutions and style of religious tendencies, p. 107 f .
  31. ↑ Monika Richarz (ed.): Jüdisches Leben in Deutschland (=  publications of the Leo Baeck Institute . Second volume: Self-testimonies to social history in the Kaiserreich). Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1979, ISBN 3-421-01842-1 , Chapter 1 Conrad Rosenstein, p. 65-76 .
  32. ↑ Monika Richarz (ed.): Citizens on revocation. Testimonies of German Jews 1780–1945 . CH Beck, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-406-33856-9 , Chapter 16 Conrad Rosenstein, p. 213-223 .

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personal data
SURNAME Rosenstein, Conrad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rosenstein, Conrad-N .; Rosenstein, Conrad-Naftali; Rosenstein, Konrad Naftali; Rosenstein, Konrad N .; Rosenstein, Naftali C.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Israeli doctor, teacher, author and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 18th September 1977
Place of death Jerusalem , Israel