Paul Josef Diamond

Paul Josef Diamant (born 1887 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died 1966 in Jerusalem ) was an Austrian-Israeli Zionist and genealogist .

Life

Paul Josef Diamant was the son of a Viennese lawyer and a Bratislava citizen's daughter. He attended a humanistic grammar school, studied in Vienna and received his doctorate in law and in 1929 in philosophy, the philosophical dissertation was on the subject of sphragistics and heraldry among Jews . He worked as a lawyer and also as an estate manager and also as a publisher of the book William Hickling Prescott Conquest of Mexico and Conquest of Peru , Vienna 1899.

Diamant was a supporter of Zionism and had been active in Zionist groups since middle school and co-founded the youth magazine Our Hope . He was a delegate to the Zionist Congress in 1911 and 1913 . In 1913, Diamant founded an archive for Jewish family research, art history and museums, of which only two volumes were published. He was one of the founders of the Zionist Tagblatt , the Wiener Morgenzeitung of the Jewish National Party and the Zionist weekly Der Judenstaat . From 1914 to 1918 he was a soldier in the First World War in the 4th Dragoon Regiment and was proud that even a grandson of Emperor Franz Joseph served as a lieutenant in the association .

In 1920, in the Austrian First Republic , Diamant led the Zionist election propaganda in the parliamentary elections . In 1923 he was editor of the magazine Menorah in Vienna in the first year of publication . Diamond was now frequently in Palestine . In 1925 in Paris he co-founded the revisionist party led by Vladimir Jabotinsky . He had been working illegally in Palestine since the Arab pogroms of 1929 , supported the Irgun Zwai Leumi underground army and in 1938 assisted in the flight of European Jews and their illegal immigration to Palestine. After Austria's annexation in 1938, Diamant lived permanently in Palestine, and since 1939 he has cultivated his own small estate in Moza near Jerusalem . In 1948 the estate was temporarily occupied by Arab fighters.

Diamant continued to be active in literature and science in Palestine and Israel. He wrote over 150 essays and brochures, mostly Jewish-political and Jewish-historical, including a study on Theodor Herzl's ancestors (1935) and a treatise on the humanist Paulus Weidner von Billerburg .

Fonts (selection)

• Paulus Weidner von Billerburg (1525–1585), imperial personal physician and rector of the university. In: Communications from the Association for the History of the City of Vienna. 13/14 (1933).
• Theodor Herzl's paternal and maternal ancestors . Jerusalem: Bamberger & Wahrmann, 1934
• Minna Diamant 1815–1840, her friends and relatives: An exchange of letters from the Biedermeier period . Ed., With preface a. Note vers. by Paul J. Diamant. Tel Aviv: Olamenu, 1964

literature

• Paul Josef Diamant , in: Armin A. Wallas (Ed.): Eugen Hoeflich. Diaries 1915 to 1927 . Vienna: Böhlau, 1999 ISBN 3-205-99137-0 , p. 757
• Isabella Gartner: Menorah: Jewish family journal for science, art and literature (1923–1932). Materials on the history of a Viennese Zionist magazine . Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2009 ISBN 978-3-8260-3864-8 Innsbruck, Univ., Diss., 1997

Web links

• Diamant, Paul J. , at DNB
• Paul Josef Diamant , short autobiography, 1950

Individual evidence

1. ^ William Prescott: Works in German , at DNB