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Salomon Adler-Rudel (also: Schalom Adler-Rudel , born June 23, 1894 in Czernowitz , Austria-Hungary ; died November 14, 1975 in Jerusalem ) was a social politician and a pioneer of Jewish social work in Austria, Germany, Great Britain and Israel.

Life

Salomon Adler-Rudel was general secretary of Poale Zion in Vienna from 1915 to 1918 and director of the welfare organization of the East Jews (workers welfare office) in Berlin from 1919 to 1934.

From 1930 to 1934 he was managing director of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Jüdischen Arbeitsrechte der Jewish Gemeinde in Berlin, 1934 to 1936 General Secretary of the Reich Representation of German Jews, 1936 to 1945 representative of German Jews in international organizations and administrator of the Central British Fund for German Jewry (CBF) in London . In 1936 the Gestapo forced his emigration. From 1940/42 there is a brief exchange of letters with Hannah Arendt , who, like him, was active in refugee work for Jews, she in particular for the youth aliyah . These letters are one of the few testimonies to Arendt's Parisian years and her escape. The correspondents reflect on the situation of refugees in view of the threat to Europe from the Germans.

In Great Britain, Salomon Adler-Rudel was active in various Jewish self-help organizations. He and his wife became a first point of contact and advice for many Jews who had fled Germany.

Salomon Adler-Pack has lived in Israel since 1949 . From 1949 to 1955 he was head of the international relations department of the Jewish Agency (he was also a member of the delegation to the Luxembourg Agreement ), from 1958 to 1975 he was director of the Leo Baeck Institute in Jerusalem.

He published numerous writings on the Eastern Jewish question and Jewish social policy.

Fonts (selection)

• Eastern Jews in Germany . Philo, Berlin 1924.
• Eastern Jews in Germany 1880–1940 . Mohr, Tübingen 1959.
• Jewish self-help under the Nazi regime 1933–1939 . Mohr, Tübingen 1974.

literature

• Eagle pack, Solomon. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 1: A-Benc. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-598-22681-0 , pp. 78-80.
• Israel Gutman (Ed.): Encyclopedia of the Holocaust. The persecution and murder of the European Jews . tape 1 : AG . Piper Verlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-492-22700-7 , p. 6th f .
• Axel Meier: "No resignation, but self-help!" Salomon Adler-Rudel 1894–1975 . In: Sabine Hering with Sandra Schönauer (ed.): Jewish welfare in the mirror of biographies (= history of Jewish welfare in Germany , vol. 2). Fachhochschulverlag, Frankfurt, 2nd, reviewed and expanded edition. 2007, ISBN 978-3-936065-80-0 , pp. 34–46.
• Nanette Wolf: Adler-Rudel, Salomon , in: Hugo Maier (Ed.): Who is who of social work . Freiburg: Lambertus, 1998 ISBN 3-7841-1036-3 , p. 31f.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hannah Arendt - Salomon Adler-Rudel, correspondence .