Kurt Hruby

Kurt Hruby (born May 27, 1921 in Krems an der Donau , Lower Austria ; † September 5, 1992 in Vulaines-sur-Seine near Troyes ) was an Austrian theologian and author .

Life

Hruby was the son of Rosa (née Kohn) and Max Hruby, attended elementary school and grammar school in Krems, which he graduated with the Matura in 1938 . He was baptized and also grew up with a religious-Jewish upbringing through his mother's brothers.

After Austria was annexed to Hitler's Germany, Hubry tried to flee across the Swiss border with another Kremser, Arthur Rephan and his wife . All three were pushed back across the border by the Swiss authorities. On a coal steamer (together with Abraham and Fritz Nemschitz from Krems), Hruby finally managed to escape to Palestine , where he was able to have his mother follow him.

In Palestine he worked as a lumberjack with his cousin Paul Pisker and was one of the pioneers of the Jewish religious kibbutz Sde Elijahu in the Jordan Valley . Then he worked for the Agence France-Presse in Jerusalem . He completed a yeshiva and studied at the Hebrew University .

In 1949 Hruby returned to Austria and began studying theology at the Catholic University in Leuven , Belgium .

In 1953, after graduation and ordination, he worked at the Study Center of the Sisters of Zion in Paris. In 1960 there was a teaching position for Jewish studies at the Institut Catholique, the Catholic University of Paris, and since 1965 at the Institut Oecuménique there. From 1957 he worked sporadically on the journal JUDAICA , from 1971 as editor and employee of the Foundation for Church and Judaism in Zurich / Basel.

In his work The Synagogue , published in 1971, Hruby refers to a principle of the Mishnah that if a synagogue is sold, it can be bought back later. Hruby also mentions that the synagogue in his native Krems, a building by the architect Max Fleischer , was confiscated in June 1938 in the course of the Sudeten crisis for use as a refugee camp for Sudeten Germans, and that the interior was demolished. Due to this change in use, the synagogue survived the Reichspogromnacht in November 1938. The building was demolished in 1978.

Works

• Jews and Judaism among the Church Fathers ; Writings on Judaism Volume 2; Zurich: Theological Publishing House Zurich, 1971; ISBN 3-290-14902-1
• The synagogue - historical development of an institution ; Writings on Judaism Volume 3; Zurich: Theological Publishing House Zurich, 1971; ISBN 3-290-14903-X
• The position of the Jewish teachers of the law towards the nascent Church ; Writings on Judentumskunde Volume 4 ;: Zurich: Theologischer Verlag Zurich, 1971; ISBN 3-290-14904-8
• Essays on post-biblical Judaism and the Jewish legacy of the early church , in: Peter von der Osten-Sacken, Thomas Willi (ed.): Works on New Testament Theology and Contemporary History (ANTZ), Berlin, Institute Church and Judaism 1996.

literature

• Kurt Hruby for his 70th birthday , as issue 1/2 of JUDAICA 47, June 1991, with a "selected bibliography" of the work of Kurt Hruby, pages 116–119.
• Rosa and Kurt Hruby, Schlüsselamtsgasse, Escape to Palestine in: Robert Streibel: Suddenly they were all gone. The Jews of the “Gauhauptstadt Krems” and their fellow citizens , Picus Wien 1991, pages 118ff.
• Thomas Willi:  Hruby, Kurt. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 16, Bautz, Herzberg 1999, ISBN 3-88309-079-4 , Sp. 744-752.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Online presence Jews in Krems ( Memento of the original from September 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Robert Streibel : The Fate of the Expelled Krems Jews. Rosa and Kurt HRUBY. Schlüsselamtsgasse. Escape to Palestine. 
2. ↑ Kurt Hruby: The Synagogue ; Chapter: The Sanctity of the Synagogue ; Quotation page 74f.
3. ^ Robert Streibel: The Krems Synagogue - A building by the architect Max Fleischer ; PPP 2008