Shalom Ben-Chorin

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Shalom Ben-Chorin (1975)
Memorial plaque birthplace of Schalom Ben Chorin in Munich, Zweibrückenstr. 8 (Blanka Wilchfort, 2011)

Shalom Ben-Chorin ( Hebrew שלום בן-חורין, translated: "Peace, Son of Freedom"; born on  July 20, 1913 in Munich as Fritz Rosenthal ; died on May 7, 1999 in Jerusalem ) was a German - Israeli journalist and religious scholar . Above all, Ben-Chorin campaigned for Christian-Jewish dialogue , overcoming anti-Judaism and anti-Semitism and for the possibility of a theology after Auschwitz . His adopted home was Israel.

Life

Shalom Ben-Chorin came from an educated, acculturated Jewish merchant family. After graduating from Luitpold High School in Munich, he studied German and comparative religious studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich from 1931 to 1934 . In 1935 he emigrated to Palestine . From 1935 to 1970 he was a journalist. In 1958 he founded Israel's first Jewish reform congregation in Jerusalem ( Har-El congregation ) and in 1961 co-founded the working group Jews and Christians at the German Evangelical Church Congress . From 1970 to 1987 he was a lecturer and visiting professor in Jerusalem, Tübingen and Munich. When the Association of German-Language Writers in Israel (VdSI) merged in 1975 , he was a member of the fifteen-member founding committee.

Honors

He has received numerous honors for his theological and literary services, including:

The state of Baden-Württemberg awarded him an honorary professorship in 1986 . The universities of Munich (1988) and Bonn (1993) awarded him an honorary doctorate .

family

In 1943, Schalom Ben-Chorin married Avital (born 1923, died on October 6, 2017), who was born as Erika Fackenheim in Eisenach and who fled Germany to Palestine in 1936. Avital and Schalom Ben-Chorin led the first official delegations of Israeli youths to visit Germany, thus laying the foundation for the German-Israeli youth exchange. In 2012 Avital Ben-Chorin was awarded the honorary citizenship of her hometown Eisenach, in 2013 the Federal Cross of Merit.

Shalom Ben-Chorin's son from his first marriage to Gabriella Rosenthal (1913-1975), Tovia Ben-Chorin (born 1936 in Jerusalem) officiated as a liberal rabbi in Ramat Gan, in Manchester, in the Har El community in Jerusalem, in the community Or Chadasch in Zurich and from 2009 to 2015 in the Jewish community in Berlin and since then in the Jewish community of St. Gallen .

estate

The written estate of Shalom Ben-Chorin of manuscripts and correspondence is in the Marbach Literature Archive , where it is scientifically indexed . The furnishings of his study and his extensive library were brought from Jerusalem to Munich and have been in the city ​​archive there since 2009 .

Works (selection)

  • The strange church - a book of legends. Heim Verlag Dreßler, Radolfzell 1931.
  • Beyond orthodoxy and liberalism. Experiment about the Jewish beliefs of the present. Goldstein, Tel Aviv 1939.
  • Art. Israel. In: Lexikon der Frau , ed. Gustav Keckeis , Encyclios, Zurich 1954, Vol. 2, Sp. 107–111.
  • Jonah's answer. To the change of shape of Israel. Hamburg 1956.
  • In Judeo-Christian conversation. Berlin 1962.
  • Dialogue with Martin Buber. Munich 1966.
  • Brother jesus. The Nazarenes from a Jewish perspective Munich 1967; (New edition: Gütersloh 2005, ISBN 3579053434 , ISBN 978-3579053431 )
  • Paul : The Apostle of Nations from a Jewish perspective. Munich 1970, Jerusalem 1978, ISBN 3-471-77135-2 .
  • Mother Mirjam: Maria from a Jewish perspective. Munich 1971, ISBN 3-471-77137-9 .
  • The three-dimensional man: the man of the Bible and modernity. Trier 1971.
  • I live in Jerusalem . Commitment to history. Munich 1972.
  • Youth on the Isar. Munich 1974.
  • Jewish belief. Tuebingen 1975.
  • The tables of the covenant. The ten word from Sinai. JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck), Tübingen 1979.
  • Praying Judaism: The Liturgy of the Synagogue. Munich lecture. Mohr, Tübingen 1980, ISBN 3-16-143062-X .
  • Franz Rosenzweig and the end of German Jewry. In: Franz Rosenzweig. Kassel University Speeches ,2. Kassel 1987, ISBN 3-88122-349-5 , p. 3ff.
  • Because we are brothers. Bleicher, Gerlingen 1988, ISBN 3-88350-231-6 .
  • The election of Israel. A theological-political treatise. Piper, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-492-03630-9 .
  • Together with Michael Langer : The tears of Job. Tyrolia, Innsbruck 1994, ISBN 3-7022-1939-0 . (With color photos by Hans-Günther Kaufmann)
  • Poems. Edited by G. Ott. Sankt Michaelsbund, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-939905-01-1 .

literature

Web links

Commons : Schalom Ben-Chorin  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ^ Foundation Bible and Culture - Awards. Retrieved December 27, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Avital Ben-Chorin is dead: Eisenach mourns his honorary citizen. In: Focus Online . October 9, 2017, accessed October 17, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Interview with Avital Ben-Chorin in the portal israelis-und-deutsche.de, accessed on November 4, 2017.
  4. ↑ Eisenach honors Avital Ben-Chorin with the award of honorary citizenship , Thüringer Allgemeine, August 9, 2012, accessed on November 4, 2017.
  5. ↑ https://www.juedisches-museum-muenchen.de/ausstellungen/vorschau.html accessed on March 25, 2020
  6. ↑ Schalom Ben-Chorin's study and library In: Landeshauptstadt München, accessed on October 9, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Ben-Chorin, Shalom
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fritz Rosenthal; Fritz Franz Rosenthal; Tony Brook (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Israeli journalist, religious scholar, campaigned for Christian-Jewish dialogue
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 1999
Place of death Jerusalem