Rafael N. Rosenzweig

Rafael N. Rosenzweig (born September 8, 1922 in Frankfurt am Main ; died December 2, 2001 in Forch near Zurich ) was an Israeli agricultural economist . In 1938 he emigrated to Palestine , where he joined a kibbutz . He studied economics, worked in the Ministry of Agriculture and was involved in the Israeli peace movement.

Life

Rafael Rosenzweig was born in 1922 as the son of Franz Rosenzweig and Edith, b. Hahn in Frankfurt a. M. born. When he was growing up, his father was already suffering from total paralysis. But he saw famous scholars visit his father at the bedside and was there when Martin Buber and his father worked together on the translation of the Old Testament into German.

His mother belonged to the group of German Jews who wanted to persevere in Germany even after the National Socialists came to power and the persecution of the Jews began, because she believed in the moral substance of German culture. Only after the Reich pogrom in November 1938 did she consent to her son, who was then still a minor, being allowed to emigrate to Palestine. In 1939 she followed on the last ship with Jewish emigrants. After graduating from high school, Rafael Rosenzweig joined the Kibbutz Schaar Hagolan. From 1944 to 1946 he was a soldier in the British Army Jewish Brigade .

In 1954 he was released from his kibbutz to study economics. From 1963 he was head of the training department for experts in development aid at the Israeli Ministry of Agriculture. In 1966 he was appointed Senior Economic Advisor in the Office of the Agricultural Attaché of the US Embassy in Tel Aviv . After his retirement in 1987, Rafael Rosenzweig was able to concentrate more on scientific work and became involved in the peace movement in Israel. In 1998 his main economic work, The Striving for Security, was published . In 1999 he took up the Franz Rosenzweig visiting professorship at the University of Kassel.

Fonts (selection)

• "Personal and Collective Security: The Palestinian Need", in: Judaism Vol. 17, No. 4 (1968).
• Frost protection for agricultural products (Hebrew), Tel Aviv 1973.
• To renew the face of the land. To Account of Israel's Agriculture , Tel Aviv 1977 (translated into French and Italian).
• "The translation activity of Franz Rosenzweig", in: Volume 4/1 of the collected writings of Franz Rosenzweig, Haag 1983.
• "Der Erbfeind", in: How good are your tents, Jaakow. Festschrift for Reinhold Mayer , Gerlingen 1986.
• "German and Jew. Franz Rosenzweig's path to the Jewish people", in: Wolfdietrich Schmied-Kowarzik (ed.), The philosopher Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929). International Congress Kassel 1986 , Freiburg / Munich 1988.
• The Economic Consequences of Zionism , Leiden 1989.
• "Franz Rosenzweig as a translator", in: "The truth wants to be proven". Franz Rosenzweig's life's work between Jews and Christians , Berlin 1996.
• The pursuit of security , Marburg 1998 (eng .: The Quest for Security, 1996).
• "Moments" and "Fundamentalism and the Near-East Conflict", both in: Wolfdietrich Schmied-Kowarzik (ed.), Visualizations of the destroyed Jewish heritage. Franz Rosenzweig guest lectures Kassel 1987-1998 , Kassel 1997.

literature

• Wolfdietrich Schmied-Kowarzik u. a. (Ed.): Visualizing the Destroyed Jewish Heritage: Franz Rosenzweig Guest Lectures Kassel 1987 - 1998 . Kassel: Kassel Univ. Press, 1997 ISBN 978-3-7281-2518-7

Web links

International Rosenzweig Society