The Last Generation of the German Rabbinate - 9780253070197

The Last Generation of the German RabbinateGerman Refugee Rabbis in the United States, 19332010\nAuthor(s): Cornelia Wilhelm\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Indiana University Press, United States\nImprint: Indiana University Press\nISBN-13: 9780253070197, 978-0253070197\nSynopsis\nAfter the Nazi seizure of power on January 30, 1933, over 250 German rabbis, rabbinical scholars, and students for the rabbinate fled to the United States. The Last Generation of the German Rabbinate follows their lives and careers over decades in America. \n Although culturally uprooted, the group's professional lives and intellectual leadership, particularly those of the younger members of this group, left a considerable mark intellectually, socially, and theologically on American Judaism and on American Jewish congregational and organizational life in the postwar world.\n Meticulously researched and representing the only systematic analysis of prosopographical data in a digital humanities database, The L.