Language:
German
Year of publication:
2012
Titel der Quelle:
Judaica; Beiträge zum Verstehen des Judentums
Angaben zur Quelle:
68,3 (2012) 278-294
Keywords:
Horowitz, Charles
;
Michel, Otto,
;
Christianity and other religions Judaism 1945-
;
History
;
Judaism Relations 1945-
;
Christianity
Abstract:
Discusses letters written by the German Jewish religious scholar, Charles Horowitz, to the German Protestant theologian and professor at Tübingen University, Otto Michel, in 1946-47. Horowitz, who was born in 1892 in Galicia, had worked sporadically as a scientific assistant in Tübingen, but his situation became intolerable in 1933 and he fled with his family via Amsterdam to Paris. His parents, who had stayed in Galicia, and his three siblings were murdered by the Nazis, as was his wife, who was deported to Auschwitz from Paris. Discusses theologians at Tübingen University who were active antisemites, in particular Gerhard Kittel. In his postwar letters to Michel, who succeeded Kittel as professor at Tübingen, Horowitz asked for help in retrieving manuscripts of his German translations of Talmudic tractates, as well as financial aid to pursue his translation work, for the benefit also of the younger German generation, which needed to be cleansed of the "poison" of antisemitism. Argues that the letters provide a sense of how slowly the university confronted its antisemitic and Nazi past. Due to his limited means, Michel was unable to offer Horowitz professional collaboration. Horowitz received a doctorate in Bonn in 1963 and was appointed professor in 1965. He continued his translations of the Talmud, and died in 1969.
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