Association for Liberal Judaism in Germany

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The Association for Liberal Judaism or the Association for Liberal Judaism in Germany was an early 20th century in Germany was founded and until the era of National Socialism existing organization liberal Jewish communities , rabbis and individuals.

history

The Association for Liberal Judaism in Germany was founded in 1908 by Rabbi Heinemann Vogelstein (1841-1911) and Bernhard Breslauer (1851-1928), among others , with Breslauer also being elected first chairman. In the first year of its existence, the organization had around 6,000 members, including private individuals, in particular the reform communities in major German cities and the rabbies of the Association of Liberal Rabbis in Germany, which had been founded by Vogelstein in 1899 .

The leading intellectual head of the association was Caesar Seligmann , who also acted as editor of the periodical Liberales Judentum published from 1908 to 1922 .

After the association had issued its guidelines for a program for liberal Judaism , signed by 60 rabbis , it was attacked from within Orthodox Judaism circles .

The goals of the association were strictly anti- Zionist , did not pursue radical reforms, but instead emphasized - especially in the form of the youth movement affiliated with it - a universal and philanthropic mission of Judaism in the diaspora . This direction of the association, which lasted for decades, had a wide impact and was widely recognized by open-minded population groups throughout Germany.

After the First World War , the Association for Liberal Judaism turned against the growing forces of Zionists in communal institutions, particularly through the Jüdisch-Liberale Zeitung .

In 1926, the association joined the World Union for Progressive Judaism at a congress held in London . From 1925 to 1934 George Goetz (1892–1968) was the general secretary of the association. Goetz was partly parallel to this, from 1930 to 1935, editor-in-chief of the Jüdisch-Liberalen Zeitung .

Until the seizure of power in 1933, the Association for Liberal Judaism grew to only around 10,000 members before it was dissolved in the 1930s.

Fonts

Periodicals:

  • Liberal Judaism. Monthly for the religious interests of Judaism , ed. from the Association for Liberal Judaism in Germany, Frankfurt am Main, 1908ff.

See also

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Compare the information in the catalog of the German National Library
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h o. V .: Association for Liberal Judaism in Germany (in English), transcription from the Encyclopaedia Judaica by Thomson Gale on encyclopedia.com in the version from 2007, last accessed on October 26, 2018
  3. ↑ George Goetz; Hans Goetz (ed.): Philosophy and Judaism. Lectures and essays from the years 1924–1968. Hansa-Verlag: Husum 1991, pp. 7-11.
  4. ↑ Compare the information in the journal database