The Frankfort Lehrhaus

Nahum N. Glatzer

1956

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In the treatise Zeit ist’s [Franz] Rosenzweig outlined a detailed and imposing plan of an Academy for the Science of Judaism, the members of which would be both scholars and teachers. As scholars they would work on one of the several scientific projects undertaken by the Academy; a part of their time, however, they would devote to Jewish teaching…

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Nahum N. Glatzer

1903–1990

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.

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