Moshe Unna

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Moshe Unna, 1951

Moshe Unna ( Hebrew מֹשֶׁה אוּנָא, Born November 22, 1902 in Mannheim ; † February 21, 1989 in Israel) was an Israeli rabbi and politician .

Life

Unna was the son of the Mannheim rabbi Isak Unna and his wife Gertrud Goitein (1876-1954), who came from the extensive family of rabbis and scholars Goitein . He attended the agricultural school and the rabbinical seminary in Berlin and received a diploma in agriculture. He was a member of the Mannheim group of the blue-white Jewish hiking association and the Misrachi youth movement .

In 1927 the alija took place in the League of Nations mandate for Palestine , where he worked in orchards. In 1931 and 1933 he returned to Germany. In 1934 he took part in the children's and youth alijah .

In 1935 he was one of the founders of the religious kibbutz movement ( Hebrew הקיבוץ הדתי, HaKibbutz HaDati ) and worked as its secretary until 1974.

In 1937 he founded Tirat Zwi ( Hebrew טִירַת צְבִי, lit. Zwi Burg ), a religious kibbutz in Emeq ha-Ma'ajanot . In 1940 he became a member of the Palestinian Parliament and the Jewish National Council (JNC) ( Hebrew ועד לאומי, Wa'ad Le'umi ).

He then became a member of the executive committee of HaPo'el haMisrachi and served as its treasurer from 1942 to 1949. In 1944 he moved to Kibbutz Sde Elijahu ( Hebrew שְׂדֵה אֵלִיָּהוּ, lit. Elijahu's field ).

In 1949 he became a member of the Knesset for the HaChasit haDatit haMe'uchedet . On March 22, 1956 he was appointed Deputy Minister of Education in Israel, where he held this office until December 31, 1957. On January 13, 1957, he was reappointed Deputy Minister of Education and left the cabinet on July 1, 1957 when Mafdal (NRP) left the government.

In the parliamentary elections of 1959, 1961 and 1965 Unna kept his seat in the Knesset and then lost it in 1969.

Works

  • The beginnings of the religious kibbutz movement in Germany , in: Bulletin of the Leo Baeck Institute , LXXVIII (1987), pp. 111-135.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Moshe Unna ( English ) In: knesset.gov.il . Knesset . March 28, 2011. Retrieved September 19, 2013.
  2. ^ Ivonne Meybohm: Education for Zionism. The Jewish Wanderbund Blau-Weiß as an attempt to implement the program of the Jewish Renaissance in practice , Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-631-58481-1 , p. 11, note 18
  3. ↑ Moshe Unna ( English ) In: harvard.edu . Harvard University . March 28, 2011. Archived from the original on September 21, 2013. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 19, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / via.lib.harvard.edu
personal data
SURNAME Unna, Moshe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ûnnâ, Moše; Unna, Moshe (other spellings)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli rabbi and politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1989
Place of death Israel