Robert Weltsch

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Robert Weltsch in 1935

Robert Weltsch (born June 20, 1891 in Prague , Austria-Hungary , † December 22, 1982 in Jerusalem ) was an Israeli publicist, journalist and Zionist .

Life

The son of the lawyer Theodor Weltsch (d. 1922) was, like many later known Jewish students from Prague, a member of the Bar Kochba association . He studied at the Law Faculty of the Prague German University .

From 1919 to 1938 he was editor-in-chief and co-editor of the journal Jüdische Rundschau in Berlin and became known through several articles with open criticism against Hitler . His leading article on the boycott day on April 1, 1933 , which appeared in the Rundschau on April 4, 1933, became famous : Wear it with pride, the yellow spot ! .

In 1938 Robert Weltsch emigrated to Palestine and thus survived the Holocaust . In Jerusalem he was editor-in-chief of the Jüdische Welt-Rundschau in 1939 and 1940 .

After the Second World War , Weltsch moved to England and worked for various Zionist institutes as a publicist, including in London as head of the Leo Baeck Institute . He was also a correspondent for the Israeli daily Haaretz . He spent the last years of his life (from 1978) in Israel .

His cousin Felix Weltsch published the Czechoslovak Zionist magazine Selbstwehr . Both come from an old Prague family.

Fonts (selection)

  • Zionist politics. Mährisch-Ostrau 1927 (together with Hans Kohn ).
  • Saying yes to Judaism. 1933.
  • German Judaism. Rise and Crisis. (14 monographs), 1963.

literature

  • John F. Oppenheimer (Red.) And a .: Lexicon of Judaism. 2nd Edition. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh u. a. 1971, ISBN 3-570-05964-2 , col. 861.
  • Christian Wiese : The "demonic face of nationalism": Robert Weltsch's ambiguous interpretation of Zionism in the face of National Socialism and the Shoah . In: Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaft, Vol. 60, 2012, Issue 7/8, pp. 618–645.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German Reich 1933-1937: Volume 1 of The Persecution and Murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany, p. 115 . Retrieved January 13, 2012.
  2. ↑ The compulsory wearing of the “ Jewish star ” was introduced in 1939 (occupied Poland) and 1941 (German Reich).
  3. ↑ http://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/cm/periodical/pageview/2686535
personal data
SURNAME Weltsch, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli publicist, journalist and Zionist
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH 22nd December 1982
Place of death Jerusalem