Ester Rabin

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Ester Rabin (born as Else Hes September 25, 1887 in Papenburg ; died April 14, 1978 in Haifa ) was a German-Israeli writer.

Life

Else Hes (1910)

Else Hes was a daughter of Isaak Wolf Hes and Henriette Hes, she had the sister Hermine Hes (1888–1961). The family moved to Breslau in 1898 , where the daughters attended high school. Else Hes studied German, history and philosophy at the University of Breslau and received her doctorate in 1913 with a dissertation on Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer as a playwright. She married as a young woman and was involved in the Jewish Women's Association . Else Fuchs-Hes got involved in the discussion about the image that women were to portray in the 1920s. She represented the conservative side among opinion leaders in the journal Israelitisches Familienblatt . After her divorce from Fuchs in 1926 she married Israel Rabin , who was also divorced at the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau (JTS) and who brought the future Hebrew Chaim Rabin into the marriage. They had two children, the teacher Miriam Ben-Peretz, born in 1927, and the computer scientist Michael Oser Rabin, born in 1931 . Else Rabin was involved in the orthodox B'nai-B'rith sister associations and was temporarily chairman of the local organization in Wroclaw, and in the Misrachi .

After the handover of power to the National Socialists in 1933, they were forced to emigrate and went to Palestine in 1935 .

Ester Rabin was also involved in women's organizations in Palestine and was a member of the 3rd parliament of the Jewish self-government Assefat ha-Nivcharim, elected in 1944 . As an envoy for the Israeli Misrachi women's organization, she went to England, France and Ireland in 1952. She was honored for her more than fifty years of service at the B'nai B'rith , and a street on Mount Carmel in Haifa was named after her .

She was bilingual and wrote religious and educational children's books, wrote essays and gave lectures on questions of literature, but wrote her memoirs in German and joined the Association of German-Language Writers of Israel .

Fonts (selection)

  • Else Hes: Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer as a playwright. A contribution to the history of theater in the 19th century , Stuttgart 1914
  • Else Fuchs-Hes: The Asian image of women . In: Leaves for the Jewish woman. Supplement for self-defense . August 18, 1925, pp. 1f.
  • Else Rabin, Emil Bernhard Cohn (Ed.): Jewish youth book . Berlin: Jüdischer Verlag, 3rd year 1930/31; 5th year, 1935/36
  • Friedrich Thieberger (ed.): Jewish festival, Jewish custom: a collective work . With the participation of Else Rabin. Berlin: Jewish publishing house, 1936
  • Ester Rabin: The question . Ramat Gan: Massada, 1970
  • Ester Rabin: Shadows . Givatayim: Massada, 1975 (memories)

literature

  • Rabin, Ester Else , in: Dov Amir: Life and work of German-speaking writers in Israel. Eine Bio-Bibliographie , Munich: Saur, 1980, ISBN 3-598-10070-1 p. 69
  • Michael Rabin: Special exhibition, "Ester Rabin (1889–1978)", November 26th – December 21st , 1982 , International Youth Library , Munich
  • Astrid Dinges: Individual action in interaction with social development: an educational study as a contribution to biography research . Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 1996 ISBN 978-3-631-30511-9 Landau, Diss., 1996. Biography, pp. 72-87
  • Fabian Hennig: Explain the roots to the children. Ester Rabin's memories between Zionism, Orthodoxy and feminism . In: Anja Siegemund (ed.): German and Central European Jews in Palestine and Israel: Cultural transfers, lifeworlds, identities - examples from Haifa . Berlin: Neofelis Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-95808-087-4 . Pp. 374-392 PDF
  • Dorit Yosef: From Yekke to Zionist. Narrative Strategies in Life Stories of Central European Jewish Women Immigrants to Mandate Palestine . In: Journal of Israeli History 33.2 (2014), pp. 185-208
  • Harriet Pass Freidenreich: The Jewish "New Woman" of the early 20th century . In: Kirsten Heinsohn , Stefanie Schüler-Springorum (ed.): German-Jewish history as gender history. Studies on the 19th and 20th centuries . Göttingen: Wallstein, 2006, pp. 123-132
  • Uwe Eissing: Between emancipation and persistence. Studies on the place and context of the fate of the Jewish community Papenburg-Aschendorf . Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 1991

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kerry Wallach: Passing illusions: Jewish visibility in Weimar Germany . Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2017 ISBN 978-0-472-07357-3 , p. 109;
    Kerry Wallach: Weimar Jewish Chic. Jewish Women and Fashion in 1920s Germany, in: Leonard J. Greenspoon (Ed.): Fashioning Jews: clothing, culture, and commerce . West Lafayette, Ind: Purdue University Press, 2013, ISBN 978-1-55753-657-0 , p. 124
personal data
SURNAME Rabin, Ester
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hes, Else; Fuchs-hes, Else
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Israeli writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Papenburg
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 1978
Place of death Haifa