"Platz machen für Gott": Else Lasker-Schüler, Rabbiner Kurt Wilhelm und der religiöse Liberalismus in Palästina

Translated title of the contribution: Make Room for God: Else Lasker-Schüler, Rabbi Kurt Wilhelm and religious Liberalism in Palestine

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Abstract

The article traces the involvement of the German-Jewish poetess Else Lasker-Schüler in the diverse activities of the only non-orthodox community in Jerusalem of the 1940s and its founding rabbi, Kurt Wilhelm – himself also a German immigrant. It further demonstrates how Rabbi Wilhelm attempted to transfer to Palestine the tenets of German Jewish liberalism: education, religious tolerance, humanism and meaningful religious services, and how the European Liberal Movement of Judaism supported this endeavour. In addition the essay shows how other prominent German Jewish immigrants like Martin Buber , Hugo Bergmann or Ernst Simon responded to Wilhelm’s liberalism by gathering around his Jerusalem community – and how, as a consequence, this group had a decisive influence on Else Lasker-Schüler ’s final years and works
Translated title of the contributionMake Room for God: Else Lasker-Schüler, Rabbi Kurt Wilhelm and religious Liberalism in Palestine
Original languageGerman
Title of host publicationJeder Vers ein Leopardenbiss
Subtitle of host publication9. Almanach aus Anlass des 20jährigen Bestehens der Else Lasker-Schüler-Gesellschaft
EditorsHajo Jahn
Place of PublicationWuppertal
Pages354-373
Number of pages20
StatePublished - 2011

Publication series

NameElse Lasker-Schüler Almanach

RAMBI publications

  • rambi
  • Emet w'emuna (Jerusalem)
  • Lasker-Schüler, Else -- 1869-1945
  • Orthodox Judaism -- Relations -- Nontraditional Jews
  • Rabbis -- Eretz Israel
  • Reform Judaism -- Eretz Israel
  • Wilhelm, Kurt -- 1900-1965

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