Jochanan Bloch
Jochanan Bloch , ( Hebrew יוחנן בלוך, born as Joachim Bloch , born March 17, 1919 in Berlin ; died February 26, 1979 in Thailand ) was a German- Israeli Jewish religious scholar .
Life
After the handover of power to the National Socialists in 1933, Bloch emigrated with the family to Palestine via Amsterdam and Paris . He graduated from the Herzlia-Gymnasium in Tel-Aviv in 1937 and studied law at the Law School in Jerusalem from 1938 to 1943 . He worked as a lawyer in Tel-Aviv until 1946, then as a private teacher in Tel-Aviv, Jerusalem and Pardes Hanna and wrote autodidactic philosophical studies. In 1948/49 he served in the Israeli army .
In 1955, on the recommendation of Ernst Simon and Martin Buber , Jochanan Bloch received a scholarship to study in Europe. In 1956 he studied philosophy, religious studies and psychology in Heidelberg and then until 1961 in Berlin.
In 1957 he founded the German-Israeli study groups at the Free University and the Church University in Berlin and at eight West German universities.
Since 1969 has taught at Ben Gurion University in the Negev .
In 1979 he died after a bus accident in Thailand .
Fonts (selection)
- The offensive people: about the secular religious community of the Jews . - Heidelberg: Schneider, 1964
- Die Aporia des Du: Problems of Martin Buber's dialogue . - Heidelberg: Schneider, 1977
- Mystery and creation: elements of Martin Buber's dialogue . - Berlin, Univ. Diss., 1968
- Judaism in Crisis: Emancipation, Socialism and Zionism . - Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1966
- Martin Buber: Balance of his thinking . - Freiburg: Herder, 1983. - ISBN 3-451-19192-X
literature
- Bloch, Jochanan. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 3: Birk – Braun. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-598-22683-7 , pp. 147-152.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thomas Lennert: Berlin, Berlin ... where are you going to lead me? Berlin encounters from five decades. Münster 2012. p. 152.
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SURNAME | Bloch, Jochanan |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bloch, Joachim (maiden name); יוחנן בלוך (Hebrew) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Israeli Jewish religious scholar |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 17, 1919 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
DATE OF DEATH | February 26, 1979 |
Place of death | Thailand |