Emil Fackenheim

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Emil Ludwig Fackenheim (born June 22, 1916 in Halle (Saale) ; died September 18, 2003 in Jerusalem ) was a German philosopher and rabbi . He is the author of widely acclaimed studies on Immanuel Kant , Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling .

Life

Emil Fackenheim passed his Abitur in 1935 at the Stadtgymnasium Halle (Saale) . He studied philosophy and Arabic studies at the University of Halle (Saale) and studied rabbinical studies with Leo Baeck , Ismar Elbogen and Max Wiener at the Berlin University for the Science of Judaism . He was arrested during the November pogroms in 1938 and imprisoned in Sachsenhausen concentration camp until February 1939 . After his Semicha in the same year he fled to Scotland to continue his philosophy studies at the University of Aberdeen . Emil's older brother Ernst-Alexander, who refused to leave his home in Germany, perished in the Holocaust .

In 1940 he was arrested as an enemy alien and taken to an internment camp on the Isle of Man. The following year he was released and then involuntarily came to Canada, where he was initially interned in the Sherbrooke interim camp for a few months . After his release, he resumed his philosophy studies at the University of Toronto in 1942 and completed it in 1945 with a PhD on Arab and Jewish philosophy of the Middle Ages.

Between 1943 and 1948 Fackenheim was the rabbi of the Anshei Shalom reform community in Hamilton, Ontario . In 1948 he got a position as a lecturer at his alma mater and was appointed professor there in 1961. After his retirement in 1981 he first became a visiting professor at the Hebrew University before moving with his family to Jerusalem in 1983 and continuing to teach there. In 1997 he held the Franz Rosenzweig visiting professorship at the University of Kassel.

estate

His estate is in the Canadian National Library / State Archives (Emil Fackenheim Fund, holdings MG31-D74 / R4535).

Honors

In 2002 Emil Fackenheim received the Abraham Geiger Prize . He was also awarded honorary doctorates from the University of Duisburg and the University of Halle.

The Emil Ludwig Fackenheim Prize is named after him and has been awarded by the Halle Jewish Community since 2003 for merits in promoting understanding between Jewish and non-Jewish fellow citizens in the region.

Fonts

  • Paths To Jewish Belief. A Systematic Introduction. 1960.
  • Metaphysics and Historicity. 1961.
  • The Religious Dimension in Hegel's Thought. 1967.
  • Quest for Past and Future; Essays in Jewish Theology. 1968.
  • God's Presence in History: Jewish Affirmations and Philosophical Reflections. 1970.
  • The Human Condition After Auschwitz. A Jewish Testimony a Generation After. 1971.
  • Encounters Between Judaism and Modern Philosophy. A Preface to Future Jewish Thought . 1973.
  • From Bergen-Belsen to Jerusalem. Contemporary implications of the holocaust. 1975.
  • The Jewish return into history. Reflections in the age of Auschwitz and a New Jerusalem. 1978.
  • To Mend the World. Foundations of Future Jewish Thought. 1982.
  • The Jewish Thought of Emil Fackenheim. A reader. 1987.
  • What is Judaism? An Interpretation for the Present Age. 1988.
    • What is Judaism? An interpretation for the present. Berlin 1999.
  • The Jewish Bible After the Holocaust. 1991.
  • Jewish Philosophers and Jewish Philosophy. 1996.
  • The God Within: Kant, Schelling and Historicity. 1996.
  • Inaugural lecture on April 24, 1997. In: Wolfdietrich Schmied-Kowarzik (Hrsg.): Ververblickierungen des Destroys Jewish Heritage. Franz Rosenzweig guest lectures Kassel 1987-1998. Kassel 1997, pp. 289-297.
  • An Epitaph for German Judaism. From Halle to Jerusalem. (Fackenheim's Autobiography) 2007.

literature

  • L. Greenspan and G. Nicholson (Eds.): Fackenheim. German Philosophy and Jewish Thought. Toronto 1992.
  • Emil L. Fackenheim Memorial. In: Wolfdietrich Schmied-Kowarzik (ed.): Franz Rosenzweig's “new thinking”. 2 volumes. Files of the International Rosenzweig Congress in Kassel, March 28 - April 1, 2004. Alber, Freiburg 2006, ISBN 3-495-48185-0 Volume 1, pp. 599–641
  • Norbert Waszek : Emil Fackenheim's conception of history, in Myriam Bienenstock (Hrsg.): The concept of history: a theological invention? Würzburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-429-02845-9 , pp. 178-198
  • Michael L. Morgan: Tikkun olam. In: Dan Diner (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture (EJGK). Volume 6: Ta-Z. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2015, ISBN 978-3-476-02506-7 , pp. 102-106.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Died: Emil Fackenheim . Der Spiegel , 39/2003.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Dr. hc Emil L. Fackenheim PhD ( Memento from October 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). Version of the Rosenzweig Society's website archived on October 22, 2013 at archive.org , accessed on July 22, 2017.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Michael L. Morgan: Fackenheim's life and work . In: Dan Diner (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture . Volume 6. JB Metzler, Stuttgart 2015 ISBN 978-3-476-02506-7 Tikkun Olam: pp. 103-104
  4. ↑ Our memorial book for the dead of the Holocaust in Halle . Gedenkbuch.halle.de. Retrieved February 2, 2013.
  5. ↑ Annette Puckhaber: A privilege for the few. German-speaking migration to Canada in the shadow of National Socialism. Lit, Münster 2002, ISBN 3825862194 , chap. 4: The group of deported refugees , p. 173ff., Fackenheim p. 240 full text
  6. ^ Jewish community in Halle (Saale): Emil Ludwig Fackenheim Prize
personal data
SURNAME Fackenheim, Emil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fackenheim, Emil Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale) , Germany
DATE OF DEATH September 18, 2003
Place of death Jerusalem , Israel