Emil Schorsch

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Emil Schorsch ( January 12, 1899 in Hüngheim - 1982 in Vineland (New Jersey) ) was a German rabbi .

Life

Emil was the son of the businessman Isaak Schorsch. Since 1907 he grew up in the orphanage. From 1915 to 1920 he was trained as a primary school teacher in Eßlingen am Neckar , with an interruption due to military service.

From 1922 he studied philosophy, psychology and oriental languages ​​at the University of Breslau and the University of Tübingen . At the same time he was trained at the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau . In 1925 he received his doctorate with the dissertation "The teachability of religion" .

In 1927 Schorsch was appointed to Hanover as the second rabbi of the Jewish synagogue community there, alongside Samuel Freund . Schorsch countered religious indifference by suggesting the establishment of a Jewish adult education center, the "Lehrhaus" . Emil Schorsch carried out the rebuilding of youth work and modernized the religious instruction that is compulsory for Jewish students . Schorsch initiated the “youth community” and thus initially brought a few hundred and later a few thousand children and young people together.

Emil Schorsch's marriage to Fanny Rothschild (1901–1983), a daughter of Theodor Rothschild , gave birth to the daughter Hanna and a son: the future rabbi, president of the Leo Baeck Institute (LBI) New York and chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Ismar Schorsch was born in Hanover in 1935.

During the so-called “Reichskristallnacht” in 1938, Emil Schorsch was arrested and deported to the Buchenwald concentration camp .

After his release, Schorsch and his family fled to England and then to the USA in 1940 . In Pottstown ( Pennsylvania ) he worked as a rabbi.

In 1963 Emil Schorsch visited Hanover on the occasion of the inauguration of the synagogue and community center at Haeckelstrasse .

Works

  • The teachability of religion (1935, dissertation)
  • Memoirs (manuscript, typewritten; 4 and 95 and 16 pages)

literature

  • Ismar Schorsch: Rabbi Emil Schorsch za "l , 1982.
  • Guido Kisch: The Breslau seminar. Jewish Theological Seminar (Fraenkel Foundation) in Breslau 1854–1939 ; Gedächtnisschrift, Tübingen 1963; P. 433.
  • Biographical handbook of German-speaking emigration after 1933, ed. by W. Röder and H. Strauss. Munich, 1980; P. 666
  • M. Richarz (Ed.): Jewish life in Germany ; Vol. 3: Personal reports on social history 1918–1945 ; 1982; Pp. 183-188.
  • Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945. Edited by the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 335.
  • Peter Schulze : Contributions to the history of the Jews in Hanover (= Hann. Studies , Vol. 6); Hanover, 1998; Pp. 114 and 184-187.
  • Peter Schulze: Schorsch , in Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , pp. 122, 322.
  • Peter Schulze: Schorsch, Emil. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 549.

Others

The LBI holds an Emil Schorsch Collection .

Remarks

  1. ^ Theodor Rothschild and the Israelite orphanage "Wilhelmspflege" in Esslingen
  2. ↑ The LBI gives the date 1929 online
  3. ↑ Photocopies in the LBI institutes, s. Web links
  4. ↑ Guide to the Emil Schorsch JTS Collection AR 25446 . Leo Baeck Institute. Retrieved March 26, 2019.

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personal data
SURNAME Schorsch, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hanoverian rabbi who fled to the USA via England in 1940
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Hüngheim
DATE OF DEATH 1982
Place of death Vineland, New Jersey