Nahum N. Glatzer

A scholar and editor of astonishing industry and curiosity, Nahum N. Glatzer wrote some sixty books and articles over a robust academic career. From Kafka to Talmud, Agnon to the book of Job, Glatzer’s interests roamed widely, and he pursued them avidly. Born in Lemberg (present-day Lviv), in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Glatzer fled Europe in 1933, settling in Palestine and teaching literature and history in Haifa. After moving to the United States, he served for forty years as consulting editor and editor in chief at Schocken Books, and he was professor of Jewish history and philosophy in the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University from 1951 to 1973. Glatzer was the living link among Franz Rosenzweig, the Frankfurt Lehrhaus, and American Jewry.