Eli Rothschild

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Eli Rothschild (born December 9, 1909 in Lübeck ; died 1998 ) was a German-Israeli historian.

Life

Eli Rothschild was the son of the dentist Hugo Rothschild (1882-1959) and Hanna Adler (1889-1956). He married the Berlin dancer Marianne Silbermann (1914–), who emigrated from Germany in 1939; they had one child.

Rothschild studied German, history and philosophy in Frankfurt, Leipzig, Münster and Hamburg from 1929 to 1933. As a student, he worked alongside as a teacher at the synagogue community in Lippstadt in 1931/32 . After the handover of power to the National Socialists in 1933, his doctoral supervisor in Hamburg indicated that his dissertation project on " Friedrich Nietzsche and the Jews" no longer corresponded to the zeitgeist. Rothschild broke off his studies and emigrated to Palestine as a student with the support of his parents . His parents and three sisters later also managed to emigrate to Palestine. Rothschild initially earned his living as an unskilled shoemaker and carpenter in a kibbutz of the HaPo'el haMisrachi workers' party near Petach Tikwa and in Jerusalem . In 1935 he studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on a Jewish Agency scholarship , but did not get an academic degree. Rothschild worked in different areas, from 1936 in the British police in the border guard, from 1939 in a book antiquarian, became a member of the Haganah and from 1943 worked for the Aliyah and then for the Irgun Olej Merkas Europa (IOME). From 1948 to 1952 he was a soldier in the Israeli army with the rank of first lieutenant, was then an employee of El Al until 1957 and then worked again for the immigration authority IOME until 1962

From 1963 he was able to do research as a historian at the Leo Baeck Institute and went to Germany to sift through existing archives on Jewish communities.

Rothschild was a member of the B'nai B'rith Lodge , a member of the presidium of the old gentlemen of the Cartel of Jewish Connections (KJV) and a member of the Israeli-German Society .

Fonts (selection)

  • The Jews and the Holy Land: On the History of a People's Will to Return . Hanover: Lower Saxony State Center for Political Education, 1964
  • (Ed.): Milestones: from the way of the cartel of Jewish connections (KJV) in the Zionist movement; a collective font . Tel Aviv: Presidium d. KJV, 1972
  • King David's Children: A Homecoming Chronicle of the Jews . Mainz: v. Hase and Koehler, 1979 ISBN 978-3-7758-0963-4
  • Reconciling calls: collected essays . Edited by Heinz Kremers and Ernst Horst Schallenberger . Compiled and edited by Alfred Tendick. Cologne: Brill, 1985 ISBN 978-3-924254-02-5

literature

  • Rothschild, Eli , in: Joseph Walk : Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 318
  • Rothschild, Eli , in: Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Hrsg.): Biographical manual of German-speaking emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Politics, economy, public life . Munich: Saur, 1980, p. 621
  • Robert Jütte : The emigration of the German-speaking "Wissenschaft des Judentums": the emigration of Jewish historians to Palestine 1933–1945 . Stuttgart: Steiner 1991

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Silbermann, Marianne , in: Frithjof Trapp , Bärbel Schrader, Dieter Wenk, Ingrid Maaß: Handbook of the German-speaking Exile Theater 1933 - 1945. Volume 2. Biographical Lexicon of Theater Artists . Munich: Saur, 1999, ISBN 3-598-11375-7 , p. 871
  2. ^ Robert Jütte: The emigration of the German-language "Wissenschaft des Judentums" , 1991, p. 61
personal data
SURNAME Rothschild, Eli
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Israeli historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH 1998