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

1. ↑ Thomas Lennert: Berlin, Berlin ... where are you going to lead me? Berlin encounters from five decades. Münster 2012. p. 152.