Nathan Michael Gelber

Nathan Michael Gelber (1930). Photographer and copyrights unclear.

Nathan Michael Gelber (born May 27, 1891 in Lemberg , Austria-Hungary ; died September 24, 1966 in Jerusalem ) was an Austro-Israeli historian of early Zionism and Polish Jewry and a Zionist functionary.

Life

Nathan Michael Gelber, who was raised in a strictly religious manner by his parents, was heavily involved in the Zionist movement from his youth. He was a co-founder of the Zionist academic youth organization in Galicia and the Hatechiya in Vienna .

After studying philosophy at Vienna and Humboldt University in Berlin , he received his doctorate in Vienna in 1916. During the First World War he was an officer in the Austro-Hungarian army. From 1918 to 1921 he was general secretary of the East Galician delegation of Waad Le'umi in Vienna, from 1921 to 1930 general secretary of the Zionist organization in Austria.

In 1927, 1929 and 1933 he was General Secretary of the Zionist Congresses , and from 1931 to 1940 he was the representative of Keren Hajessod for Central Europe in Vienna and Jerusalem. In 1934 he emigrated to Palestine .

From 1940 to 1954, he was director of the Keren Hajessod headquarters in Jerusalem. After being wounded in an attack on the Jewish Agency's Jerusalem office, he retired in 1954.

Nathan Michael Gelber worked on the Encyclopaedia Judaica and the Jewish Lexicon . Between 1921 and 1931 he took over the editorial management of the Wiener Morgenzeitung and the weekly Die Demokratie . He was also an employee of many renowned magazines such as B. the monthly for the history and science of Judaism and the magazine for statistics and demography .

Fonts (selection)

• The Jews and the Polish National Movement in 1860–1864. Dissertation at the University of Vienna in 1916
• Files on the Jewish question at the Congress of Vienna , 1920
• The Jews and the Polish Uprising of 1863 , 1923
• From two centuries: Contributions to the recent history of the Jews , Vienna and others: Löwit, 1924
• On the prehistory of Zionism - Jewish state projects in the years 1695–1845 , Vienna 1927
• History of Zionism in Galicia 1875–1918 , 1958 (Hebrew)
• Jewish problems at the Berlin Congress in 1878, in Robert Weltsch Hg .: German Judaism, Rise and Crisis. Design, ideas, works. Fourteen monographs. Publication by the Leo Baeck Institute . Deutsche Verlagsanstalt , Stuttgart 1963, pp. 216-252

literature

• Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography. Vol. II, Orient Printing House, Chernivtsi 1927.
• Georg Herlitz (ed.): Jewish Lexicon . Vol. II, Jewish publishing house, Berlin 1927.
• John F. Oppenheimer (Red.) And a .: Lexicon of Judaism . 2nd Edition. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh u. a. 1971, ISBN 3-570-05964-2 .
• Harry Zohn , "... I am only a son of the German language ..." Jewish heritage in Austrian literature. Vienna / Munich 1986.
• Robert Jütte : The emigration of the German-speaking " Science of Judaism ". The Emigration of Jewish Historians to Palestine 1933–1945. Stuttgart 1991.
• Julius Hans Schoeps (Ed.): New Lexicon of Judaism. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh / Munich 1992, ISBN 3-570-09877-X .
• Gelber, Nathan Michael. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 8: Frie – Gers. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-598-22688-8 , pp. 372-376.

Web links

• Literature by and about Nathan Michael Gelber in the catalog of the German National Library