Nahum Norbert Glatzer

Nahum Norbert Glatzer (born March 25, 1903 in Lemberg , Austria-Hungary ; died February 27, 1990 in Tucson , Arizona ) was an American rabbi .

Life

Glatzer studied in Frankfurt am Main, first at the Jeschiwa Breuer, then at the University of Oriental Studies, Philosophy and the History of Religion. In 1932 the doctorate to Dr. phil. From 1923 he held lectures on midrash and Bible exegesis at the Lehrhaus Frankfurt , then he taught Jewish religious history and ethics at the University of Frankfurt, succeeding Martin Buber .

In 1938 Glatzer fled from the National Socialists to Palestine . He later taught in the USA . From 1950 he was professor of Jewish history at Brandeis University in Boston , and from 1957 director of the Department of Semitic Studies.

From 1956 he was a member of the board of directors of the Leo Baeck Institute , New York and 1959–1960 Guggenheim Fellow . In 1976 he was accepted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

He was a contributor to the Encyclopaedia Britannica and the Encyclopaedia Judaica .

The American documentary filmmaker and art historian Judith Wechsler is his daughter.

Works (selection)

• A Jewish reader. Mission and fate. From the literature of post-biblical Judaism , Berlin (Schocken) 1931 (together with Ludwig Strauss )
• Research on the history of the Tannaites , 1932 (also Diss. Phil.)
• History of the Talmudic Period , 1937
• Franz Rosenzweig , his Life and Work , 1953
• Leopold Zunz . Jew, German, European , Tübingen 1964
• Hillel , representative of classical Judaism , Gütersloh 1966
• Moses Maimonides . A cross-section through his work , Cologne 1966
• Beginnings of Judaism. An introduction , Gütersloh 1966
• The essential Philo , 1970

literature

• Desider Stern , works by authors of Jewish origin in German , Vienna 1969
• John F. Oppenheimer (Red.) And a .: Lexicon of Judaism. 2nd Edition. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh u. a. 1971, ISBN 3-570-05964-2 , col. 245.
• Walter Tetzlaff: 2000 short biographies of important German Jews of the 20th century. Askania, Lindhorst 1982, ISBN 3-921730-10-4 .
• Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945. Edited by the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 .
• Glatzer, Nahum Norbert. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 9: Glass Green. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-598-22689-6 , pp. 13-25.

Web links

• Literature by and about Nahum Norbert Glatzer in the catalog of the German National Library