Judah Lion Palache

Juda Lion Palache (born October 26, 1886 in Amsterdam ; died October 18, 1944 in Auschwitz ) was professor of Semitic languages ( Hebrew , Arabic , Aramaic ) at the University of Amsterdam and head of the Portuguese Jewish community there. He came from the Pallache family.

Life

Palache was born in Amsterdam on October 26, 1886. His father Isaac was the chief rabin of the Portuguese Sephardic community. His mother was Judith Spinoza Catella Jessurun, probably a descendant of the philosopher Baruch Spinoza . His ancestor Samuel Pallache and his brother Joseph Pallache had entered the Netherlands from Morocco via Spain and France in 1608.

He first studied at the Ets-Ḥayyim Rabiner Seminary. In 1914, he received a Bachelor's degree in Semitic Languages from the University of Amsterdam. In 1920 he received his doctorate from the University of Leiden . He studied with Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje , among others .

Professional

In 1911 he started teaching Hebrew at a school, then became a university teacher for classical languages in The Hague . In October 1924 he became a professor of Semitic languages at the University of Amsterdam. He was the first Jew on this chair, which he held until 1941.

During these years his chair belonged to the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Theology.

Memberships

Palache was active in the Jewish community, temporarily also in the Portuguese ( Parmas of the Portuguese Talmud Torah Congregation), the Spanish (again as Parmas), and French communities.

He headed the Dutch Society for Jewish Studies.

Family and death

In 1917 Palache married Sophia Wilhelmina de Pinto; they had three children: Moses, Rebeca and Isaac (Leon).

He was a staunch anti-Zionist .

After Germany occupied the Netherlands in 1940, he lost his chair as a Jew. He was a member of the Jewish Council for Amsterdam .

In 1944 his entire family was deported to Theresienstadt . They were later transferred to Auschwitz to be murdered, where he was murdered on October 18, 1944.

estate

Many of his linguistic works were lost during the Second World War . His youngest son Leo Palache survived Auschwitz. He became a passionate Zionist and worked in the Dutch branch of Keren Hayesod .

Palache's successor at the MA Been University said of him: "My predecessor in Amsterdam, the Jewish scholar Palache, knew the whole Hebrew Bible from my head". Professor Been is considered to be the founder of the Amsterdam School . Others, however, consider Palache to be the actual founder.

In 1991, KAD dedicated his book Converting the Past Palache to Smelik .

Judah Palache Institute

Leo Palache founded the Juda Palache Institute at the University of Amsterdam.

Leeser-Rosenthal / Juda Palache readings

From 2000 to 2016 the Menasseh ben Israel Institute held an annual Leeser Rosenthal / Juda Palache reading by internationally known researchers in Judaic Studies . They took place in cooperation with the Chair of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at the University of Amsterdam (Juda Palache Institute) and the Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana .

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Het Heiligdom in de voorstelling der Semietische people : academisch proefschrift ... Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden ... January 19, 1920 (Leiden: Brill, 1920)
Inleiding in den Talmoed (Introduction to the Talmus) (19803, 19542 [1922])
Het karakter van het oud-testamentische verhaal : Rede uitgesproken bij de aanvaarding van het hoogleraarambt aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam (Amsterdam: Hertzberger, 1925; later included in Sinai en Paran , below)
De sabbath-idee buiten het Jodendom : Voordracht gehouden in de vierde jaarvergadering van het Genootschap voor de Joodsche Wetenschap in Nederland (Joodsche Volksbibliotheek 2; Amsterdam: Hertzberger, 1925)
Calendar forwarding (Amsterdam: Hertzberger, 1930)
De hebreeuwsche litteratuur van den na-talmoedischen tijd tot op onze dagen in schetsen en vertalingen (Amsterdam: Hertzberger, 1935)
About beteekenisverandering der woorden in het Hebreeuws (Semietisch) en other talen : Een vergelijkende studie (Amsterdam: Hertzberger, 1939)

Posthumously published works:

Sinai en Paran. Opera minora van wijlen Dr. JL Palache , edited by M. Reizel (Leiden: Brill, 1959)
Semantic notes on the Hebrew lexicon (Leiden: Brill, 1959)

literature

MA Beek: Life Message about the author. In: JL Palache: Introduction to the Talmud. (1980 3 1954 2 [1922]), pp. IX-XIV
M. Reizel: Introduction. In M. Reizel (Ed.): Sinai and Paran. Brill, Leiden 1959, pp. 9-12
C. Houtman: Introduction to the Pentateuch JH Kok, Kampen 1980, pp. 162-163
A. Dicou: Preliminarily Education in biblical Hebrew at the Municipal University of Amsterdam. In: KA Deurloo, FJ Hoogewoud (Ed.): Beginnen bij de letter Beth: opstellen over het Bijbels Hebreeuws en de Hebreeuwse bijbel voor Dr. Aleida G. van Daalen. JH Kok, Kampen 1985, pp. 17-26
HJ Franken: JL Palache (1886-1944). Professor of Semitic Languages. In: Johan de Roos, Arie Schippers, Jan-Wim Wesselius (eds.): Driehonderd jaar oosterse talen in Amsterdam: een verzameling opstellen. University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam 1986, pp. 86-90
KAD Smelik: Tales in the Hebrew Bible. The approach of the biblical story by Palache, Brook and his disciples. In: KA Deurloo, BPM Hemelsoet et al. (Ed.): Cahier 9 (= Amsterdam Cahiers for exegesis and biblical theology 9 ) JH Kok, Kampen 1988, pp. 8-21
UWF Bauer: כל הדברים האלה - All these words: impulses for the interpretation of scriptures from Amsterdam. Explicitly in the Red Sea narrative in Exodus 13.17 to 14.31. (= Europäische Hochschulschriften XXIII (Theology) 442 ), Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1991, pp. 105–110
C. Housman: The Pentateuch: the history of its exploration alongside an evaluation. (= Contributions to Biblical Exegesis and Theology 9 ) Cook Pharos, Kampen 1994, pp. 271-272
Kessler: Voices from Amsterdam: A Modern Tradition of Reading Biblical Narrative. Scholars Press, Atlanta 1994, pp. IX-XXIV
IE Zwiep: Between Theology and Literature: Jewish Studies at the University of Amsterdam. In PJ Knegtmans, P. Rooden (Ed.): Theologians in Ondertal: Theology, religious studies, the Athenaeum Illustre and the University of Amsterdam. Meinema, Zoetermeer 2003, pp. 109-122, 113-117
JC Siebert-Hommes: The Amsterdam School. In PJ Knegtmans, P. Rooden (Ed.): Theologians in Ondertal: Theology, Religious Studies, the Athenaeum Illustre and the University of Amsterdam. Meinema, Zoetermeer 2003, pp. 177-196, 177-179
AW Zwiep: Between Text and Reader. Part II: from modernity to postmodernity. A historical introduction to biblical hermeneutics. VU University Press, Amsterdam 2013, p. 112

Web links

Prof. Dr. Judah Lion Palache . Biography Portal of the Netherlands. Retrieved September 23, 2016.
Judah Lion Palache . OCLC WorldCat. Retrieved September 23, 2016.
JL Palache (1866-1944) . Factory in Uitvoering: Franz Neumann (1916–1993). Retrieved September 25, 2016.
Palache, Jehuda Lion (Judah) 1886–1944 ( Dutch ) Joden in Nederland.
Prof. Dr. JL Palache, 1886–1944 ( Dutch ) Album Academicum (University of Amsterdam).

Individual evidence

↑ JL Palache (1866-1944) . Factory in Uitvoering: Franz Neumann (1916–1993). Retrieved September 25, 2016.
^ Palache, Jehuda Lion (Judah) 1886-1944 ( Dutch ) Joden in Nederland.
↑ Prof. dr. JL Palache, 1886–1944 ( Dutch ) Album Academicum (University of Amsterdam).
↑ Palache, Judah Lion . Encyclopaedia Judaica. 2007.
↑ In Memory - Palache, Judah Lion . Dutch Jewry. Retrieved October 20, 2016.
^ Judith Freshman, Hetty Berg : Dutch Jewry in a Cultural Maelstrom, 1880-1940 . Amsterdam University Press, 2007, pp. 63 (English, books.google.com ).
^ Mercedes García-Arenal, Gerard Wiegers: A Man of Three Worlds: Samuel Pallache, a Moroccan Jew in Catholic and Protestant Europe . Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8018-8623-2 , pp. 127 (English, public.eblib.com ).
↑ Giovanna Fiume: Schiavitù mediterranee. Corsari, rinnegati e santi di età moderna . Bruno Mondadori, Milan 2012, ISBN 978-88-6159-560-6 (Italian, books.google.com - Limited preview).
^ KAD Smelik: Converting the Past: Studies in Ancient Israelite and Moabite Historiography . Brill, 1992, pp. viii ( books.google.de ).
↑ Publications published by or in collaboration with the Menasseh ben Israel Institute . Menasseh ben Israel Institute. Retrieved September 23, 2016.

personal data
SURNAME	Palache, Judah Lion
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dutch linguist and literary scholar, university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	October 26, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH	Amsterdam
DATE OF DEATH	October 18, 1944
Place of death	Auschwitz concentration camp

[1] JL Palache (1866-1944) . Factory in Uitvoering: Franz Neumann (1916–1993). Retrieved September 25, 2016.

[2] Palache, Jehuda Lion (Judah) 1886-1944 ( Dutch ) Joden in Nederland.

[3] Prof. dr. JL Palache, 1886–1944 ( Dutch ) Album Academicum (University of Amsterdam).

[4] Palache, Judah Lion . Encyclopaedia Judaica. 2007.

[5] In Memory - Palache, Judah Lion . Dutch Jewry. Retrieved October 20, 2016.

[6] Judith Freshman, Hetty Berg : Dutch Jewry in a Cultural Maelstrom, 1880-1940 . Amsterdam University Press, 2007, pp. 63 (English, books.google.com ).

[three-7] Mercedes García-Arenal, Gerard Wiegers: A Man of Three Worlds: Samuel Pallache, a Moroccan Jew in Catholic and Protestant Europe . Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8018-8623-2 , pp. 127 (English, public.eblib.com ).

[Schiavitù-8] Giovanna Fiume: Schiavitù mediterranee. Corsari, rinnegati e santi di età moderna . Bruno Mondadori, Milan 2012, ISBN 978-88-6159-560-6 (Italian, books.google.com - Limited preview).

[9] KAD Smelik: Converting the Past: Studies in Ancient Israelite and Moabite Historiography . Brill, 1992, pp. viii ( books.google.de ).

[10] Publications published by or in collaboration with the Menasseh ben Israel Institute . Menasseh ben Israel Institute. Retrieved September 23, 2016.