Yehuda Karmon

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Yehuda Karmon ( Hebrew קרמון יהודה; Born April 17, 1912 in Auschwitz , Austria-Hungary as Leopold Yehuda Kaufmann; died July 7, 1995 in Jerusalem ) was a Polish-Israeli geographer.

Life

Karmon studied history and classical studies at the University of Breslau from 1929 to 1933 , but could not finish his studies because he was not admitted to the exam due to anti-Semitic persecution. From 1929 to 1932 he also attended the Jewish Theological Seminary . In 1933 he was imprisoned for two months for political activities.

From 1933 Karmon was active in the Zionist organizations Habonim and Hechaluz and from 1935 to 1937 head of Hechaluz in Rhineland-Westphalia. From 1937 he was a teacher at the children and youth Alijah and in the Hachschara camp Gut Winkel near Spreenhagen , where Jewish youths were prepared for emigration to Palestine. In August 1938 he finally emigrated with his first wife to the Mandate Palestine ; his parents and four siblings also went there between 1933 and 1939.

After completing his teacher training in Jerusalem, he worked as a teacher of geography and history. From 1942 to 1946 he worked in the British Army in Egypt in the card sector, from 1947 to 1950 in the Israeli army. In 1950, in addition to working as a teaching assistant, he began studying geography at the University of Jerusalem , graduating in 1953 with an MA and in 1959 with a Ph. D. In 1971 Karmon became professor and head of the Center for Maritime Civilizations at the University of Haifa , which was founded the same year on his initiative . Yehuda Karmon was visiting professor in Erlangen, London and in the USA. He did research on the geography of Israel, Nigeria and Ghana and later specialized in transport geography , particularly the role of ports in Europe and North America. He published in Hebrew, English and German.

In 1981 he retired. Yehuda Karmon was married twice and had one daughter.

Publications (selection)

  • The Northern Hula Valley . Jerusalem 1956 (Master's thesis).
  • The Geographic Conditions of the Sharon Plain and their Impact on its Settlement . Jerusalem 1959 (dissertation).
  • Ports around the world . Jerusalem 1980, ISBN 0-517-53378-2 .
  • Israel. Geographical regional studies (= Werner Storkebaum [Hrsg.]: Wissenschaftliche Länderkunden . Volume 22 ). Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1983, ISBN 3-534-08675-9 .
  • The Johanniter and Maltese: Knights and Samaritans. The Changes of the Order of St. John . Munich 1987, ISBN 3-7667-0862-7 .

literature

  • Karmon, Yehuda . In: Austrian National Library (Ed.): Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin: 18th to 20th century . tape 1 . KG Saur , Munich 2002, ISBN 3-11-094900-8 , p. 645 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  • Research Foundation for Jewish Immigration: Karmon, Yehuda . In: Hannah Caplan (Hrsg.): The Arts, Sciences, and Literatur (= Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss [Hrsg.]: Biographisches Handbuch der Deutschensprachigen Emigration nach 1933 = International biographical dictionary of Central European emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2 , no. 1 ). KG Saur, Munich a. a. 1983, ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , pp. 596 (English).
  • Karmon, Yehuda , in: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 184

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karmon, Yehuda. In: BnF Catalog général. April 12, 2016, accessed June 26, 2017 (French).
  2. ^ YBG (Yoram Bar-Gal): Karmon, Yehuda. In: Lexicon of Geography. Spektrum Akademischer Verlag , 2001, accessed June 26, 2017 .
  3. ↑ RFJI: Karmon, Yehuda . In: Hannah Caplan (Hrsg.): The Arts, Sciences, and Literatur (= Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss [Hrsg.]: Biographisches Handbuch der Deutschensprachigen Emigration nach 1933 = International biographical dictionary of Central European emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2 , no. 1 ). KG Saur, Munich a. a. 1983, ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , pp. 596 (English).
  4. ↑ Yehuda Karmon: Israel. Geographical regional studies (= Werner Storkebaum [Hrsg.]: Wissenschaftliche Länderkunden . Volume 22 ). Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1983, ISBN 3-534-08675-9 , spine .
  5. ↑ Prof. Yehuda Karmon. (No longer available online.) In: Homepage of the University of Haifa. March 2, 2003, formerly in the original ; accessed on June 26, 2017 (English).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / imaps.hevra.haifa.ac.il  
personal data
SURNAME Karmon, Yehuda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kaufmann, Leopold Yehuda (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli geographer
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Oświęcim
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 1995
Place of death Jerusalem