Heinz Mosche Graupe

Heinz Mosche Graupe (born April 22, 1906 in Berlin ; died 1997 in Chicago ) was a philosopher and Judaist .

Life

Graupe studied at the College for the Science of Judaism , at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at the University of Berlin (Dr. phil. 1930 there), was a member and president of the Social Democratic student organization and was active in the Zionist youth movement. In 1932 he received the rabbi diploma from the College for the Science of Judaism. From 1932 to 1933 he taught Jewish subjects at the Jewish Middle School in Berlin, and in 1933 he emigrated to Palestine .

From 1943 to 1948 he worked in Haifa . In 1964, when he returned to Germany, he became the first director of the Institute for the History of German Jews in Hamburg (until 1972) and taught at the University of Hamburg, since 1971 as a professor. After his retirement in 1972, he stayed in Hamburg until 1975, where he was a member of the cultural committee of the Jewish community and the Carlebach Lodge. In 1988 Graupe moved from Frankfurt to Chicago to live with his son.

Fonts (selection)

• The Origin of Modern Judaism: The Intellectual History of German Jews 1650–1942. Hamburg 1969 (1978).
• The statutes of the three communities Altona, Hamburg and Wandsbek. Two volumes, Hamburg 1973.
• The systematic nature of Jewish theology - Two examples. Chicago 1995.
• Kant and Judaism. In: Journal of Religious and Intellectual History. 13, pp. 308-345 (1961).

literature

• Monika Richarz : Heinz Mosche Graupe, in: Uni HH. Reports and opinions from the University of Hamburg 29 (1998), volume 1, p. 64.
• Robert Jütte : The emigration of the German-speaking "Wissenschaft des Judentums": the emigration of Jewish historians to Palestine 1933 - 1945 . Stuttgart: Steiner 1991, pp. 199f.

Web links

• Literature by and about Heinz Mosche Graupe in the catalog of the German National Library