Elchanan Gafni
Elchanan Gafni (born Paul Winterstein on September 10, 1916 in Brno , Austria-Hungary ; died in Israel in 2010 ) was a Czechoslovak-Israeli journalist and diplomat.
Life
Paul Winterstein grew up in a German-speaking Jewish family in Czechoslovakia, which was founded in 1918 . He attended grammar school in Hungarian Brod and began studying at the German University in Prague . After the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1939, in a group of 300 young people , he managed to cross and illegally immigrate to Palestine , where he lived in the kibbutz Kfar Ruppin until 1947 . Gafni was involved in the immigration campaign for the surviving Eastern European Jews.
From 1952 he worked as a freelance journalist in Israel. From 1961 to 1964 he was Israel's ambassador to the Republic of Cameroon . He later went into advertising and worked for Israel Social Security, for which he wrote books on aging.
Gafni last lived in Ganei Tikva .
Fonts
- Ešnāv la-ḥalômôt . Jerusalem: Carmel, 2000 ISBN 965-407-281-5 (Hebrew)
literature
- Gafni, Elchanan. In: Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century . Volume 1: A-I. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , pp. 401f (# 3076).
- Alisa Douer : New territory. Israeli artists of Austrian origin. Picus, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-85452-407-2 , p. 146f. (Book accompanying the exhibition of the same name).
Web links
- Literature by and about Elchanan Gafni in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Eva Kalousová: Elhanan Gafni , at: BDČZ - Bibliography dějin Českých zemí
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gafni, Elchanan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Winterstein, Paul (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czechoslovak-Israeli journalist and diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 10, 1916 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brno , Austria-Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2010 |
| Place of death | Israel |