Paul Avraham Alsberg

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Paul Avraham Alsberg (born March 13, 1919 in Elberfeld ; died August 20, 2006 in Omer , Israel) was the founder of the Israeli archives and state archivist. He helped set up Yad Vashem and was the administrator of Else Lasker-Schüler's estate .

Life

Paul Avraham Alsberg was a son of Alfred Alsberg and Johanna Weinberg. His parents' house was in Wuppertal, Roonstraße 22. After graduating from high school in 1937 at the Carl-Fuhlrott-Gymnasium in Wuppertal , which he attended as one of the last Jewish students, Alsberg began studying at the Breslau Rabbinical College . After the November pogroms in 1938 he was interned in the Buchenwald concentration camp for two months . After a serious illness and receiving an exit permit , he emigrated to Palestine in 1939 with his future wife Betty Kescher . It was there that he met Else Lasker-Schüler.

Alsberg worked as senior assistant at the Zionist Central Archives from 1949 to 1957 and headed the Israeli National Archives from 1957 to 1971.

Alsberg was the author of many publications and is considered to be the pioneer of German-Jewish understanding. He was a member and later an honorary member of the Else Lasker Student Society .

In the immediate vicinity of his parents' house in the Briller district , his hometown Wuppertal named a square Paul-Alsberg-Platz after him.

literature

  • Robert Jütte : The emigration of the German-speaking "Wissenschaft des Judentums": the emigration of Jewish historians to Palestine 1933 - 1945 . Stuttgart: Steiner 1991

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personal data
SURNAME Alsberg, Paul Avraham
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Alsberg, Paul Abraham
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Israeli archivist
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Elberfeld
DATE OF DEATH August 20, 2006
Place of death Omer , Israel