Miriam Gillis-Carlebach

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Miriam Gillis-Carlebach with her husband Mosche Gillis at the grave of their grandparents Esther and Salomon Carlebach in the Jewish cemetery in Lübeck-Moisling

Miriam Gillis-Carlebach (born February 1, 1922 in Hamburg , died January 28, 2020 in Petach Tikwa ) was an Israeli professor of education , sociology and Jewish history .

origin

Miriam Gillis-Carlebach was the granddaughter of Esther Carlebach and Salomon Carlebach , who became the first parents of one of the most respected rabbinical families in Germany through their twelve children .

Life

Miriam Gillis-Carlebach was the daughter of Chief Rabbi Joseph Carlebach (1883–1942) from Hamburg. He was abducted to the Jungfernhof camp near Riga with his wife Charlotte, née Preuss (born 1900) and the four youngest of the nine children . The parents and their daughters Ruth (born 1926), Noemi (born 1927) and Sara (born 1928) were shot on March 26, 1942 in the forest of Biķernieki . Miriam Gillis-Carlebach's younger brother Salomon (Shlomo Peter) Carlebach (born August 17, 1925), who had been abducted with his parents and sisters, survived because he had been assigned to a work detachment. He later became a rabbi in New York.

Miriam Gillis-Carlebach had four other siblings: Eva Sulamit (1919–1966), married to Rabbi Joseph Heinemann; Esther (born 1920–2019), married to Shimon Hackenbroch; Julius Carlebach (1922–2001), rabbi and university professor in Great Britain and Heidelberg; and Judith (1924–1970), married to Geoffrey Heymann.

Miriam, the third oldest daughter, first attended the Jewish community school in Altona, then the real girls' school of the German-Israelite community and, from 1938, the Talmud Tora high school. In October 1938, a year before graduation, she emigrated to Palestine at the age of 16 on a tourist visa . About the time before her emigration she said in an interview: “The last few days in Hamburg were very difficult for me […] I knew that I had to leave. Some sort of threat was made that if I didn't leave within a fortnight, I would be sent to a training camp. […] One of the last officers who stamped my passport with a red J asked me: 'Do you think that there is less smell of powder in Palestine than in Germany?' "

In Haifa she attended an agricultural school and then lived in Kibbutz Alumin until 1943 . In 1944 she married Mosche Gillis, a teacher and director of a youth village. The couple had four children: sons Michal Chawa, Avraham Rafael and Joseph Zwi and daughter Ilana Sara.

A few weeks after the end of the Second World War , she learned of the violent death of her parents and three younger sisters, which had already happened three years ago. She said of it, “I found the news so incredible that I couldn't understand it. Although we already knew that a lot had happened, it was terrible, unprepared news. "

It was not until 1968 that she graduated from high school at the age of 46 and then studied pedagogy. From 1973 she taught at the Bar Ilan University in Ramat Gan , in 1984 she received her doctorate; In 1988 she took over the management of the Haddad Dyslexia Institute. She also headed the Joseph Carlebach Institute at Bar Ilan University, which was founded in 1992, until old age .

In 1983, 45 years after her emigration, she returned for the first time to Germany, which she has visited again and again since then. “The first thing was the language came back, and then I tried to get to know people in order to find out whether there are any among them who not only regret but also understand. There are not many, but there are some. "

In 2004 she complained that fewer and fewer German students were coming to the university in Ramat Gan. "Everyone wants to research about Jews, research with them and hardly anyone looks them in the eye", she said and commented on the absence of Germans: "Maybe Mommy told them that it was too dangerous."

In addition to numerous works on pedagogy and special education as well as Jewish studies, Miriam Gillis-Carlebach published a monograph on her mother and edited selected writings from her father Joseph Carlebach in four volumes .

Honors

Publications

Editing

  • with Ingrid Lohmann and George Yaakov Kohler : The Tenth Joseph Carlebach Conference. "Listen, sons, to the moral of the father, and listen to know wisdom". Fathers and Father Figures in Jewish History, Religion, and Culture . Dölling and Galitz, Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-86218-085-1 .
  • with Barbara Vogel : The Ninth Joseph Carlebach Conference. "Her ways are lovely ways and all her paths are peace". Paths of Joseph Carlebach. Universal education, lived Judaism, sacrifice . Dölling and Galitz, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-86218-065-3 .
  • with Barbara Vogel: The Eighth Joseph Carlebach Conference. “My pigeon from the crevice…” Becoming visible. Jewish life in Germany since 1990 . Dölling and Galitz, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86218-015-8 .
  • with Barbara Vogel: The Seventh Joseph Carlebach Conference. "And the streets of the city of Jerusalem will be full of boys and girls playing in their streets". The Jewish child between a hopeless past and a hopeful future . Dölling and Galitz, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-937904-62-7 .
  • with Barbara Vogel: The Sixth Joseph Carlebach Conference. "... those who teach there will shine like heaven's shine". Joseph Carlebach and his time. Appreciation and impact . Ora, Volume 5. Dölling and Galitz, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-937904-31-X .
  • with Barbara Vogel: The Fifth Joseph Carlebach Conference. "... who raises the humiliated from the dust and raises the poor out of misery". Unfinished life between tragedy and fulfillment . Dölling and Galitz, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-935549-25-3 .
  • with Barbara Vogel: The Fourth Joseph Carlebach Conference. "... and so they moved out, each with his family and his father's house". Family in the field of tension between tradition and modernity . Dölling and Galitz, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-933374-66-9 .
  • with Barbara Vogel: The Third Joseph Carlebach Conference. "The stranger should be with you like a local - and show him love as you do yourself ...". Tolerance in the relationship between religion and society . Dölling and Galitz, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-930802-54-6 .
  • Joseph Carlebach : Selected writings . Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim 1982 (volumes 1 and 2, with a foreword by Haim Hermann Cohn ), 2002 (volume 3) and 2007 (volume 4, edited with the assistance of Gillian Goldmann).
  • Memor book to commemorate the Jewish people from Schleswig-Holstein who perished in the Shoah . Edited for the Association of Jewish Former Schleswig-Holsteiners in Israel. Dölling and Galitz, Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-930802-18-X .
  • with Wolfgang Grünberg : "To plant the sky and to found the earth". The Joseph Carlebach Conferences. Jewish life. Education and science . Dölling and Galitz, Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-926174-56-0 .
  • Jewish everyday life as humane resistance. Documents of the Hamburg chief rabbi Dr. Joseph Carlebach from the years 1939–1941 . (With a foreword by Hans-Dieter Loose ). (= Contributions to the history of Hamburg. Volume 37). Association for Hamburg History, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-923356-34-X .

literature

  • Sabine Niemann (editor): The Carlebachs, a rabbi family from Germany. Ephraim Carlebach Foundation (ed.). Dölling and Galitz. Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-926174-99-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andreas Brämer: Preserver of memory. In: juedische-allgemeine.de. February 6, 2020, accessed February 12, 2020 .
  2. ↑ On the death of the honorary senator Prof. Dr. Dr. hc Miriam Gillis-Carlebach - University of Hamburg. In: uni-hamburg.de. February 3, 2020, accessed February 12, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Sabine Niemann (Red.): The Carlebachs, a rabbi family from Germany. 1995, p. 98.
  4. ↑ Sabine Niemann (Red.): The Carlebachs, a rabbi family from Germany. 1995, p. 107.
  5. ↑ Sabine Niemann (Red.): The Carlebachs, a rabbi family from Germany. 1995, p. 110.
  6. ↑ Armin Himmelrath: Study in Israel: The Bridge of Bar-Ilan . In: Der Spiegel . January 20, 2004.
  7. ↑ Honors and prizes from the university. University of Hamburg, November 3, 2015, accessed on August 13, 2017 .
  8. ^ Federal Cross of Merit for Honorary Senator Prof. Miriam Gillis-Carlebach. University of Hamburg, December 10, 2008, accessed on August 13, 2017 .
  9. ↑ A Life to Remember the Murdered Family. In: Nordwest Zeitung. October 6, 2009, accessed March 6, 2018 .
  10. ↑ A Life of Truthfulness. In: Nordwest Zeitung. October 24, 2009, accessed March 6, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Gillis-Carlebach, Miriam
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carlebach, Miriam (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Israeli university professor, author
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 2020
Place of death Petach Tikva