Siegfried Moses

1887–1974

Born in Lautenburg, Germany (now Poland), Siegfried Moses had a distinguished career as a lawyer and public official before Hitler’s rise to power. Between 1933 and 1937 he served as the president of the Zionist Organization of Germany, after which he immigrated to Palestine. There he continued to work in public service and in 1949 assumed the position of Israel’s first state comptroller. In addition to his administrative work, Moses was a prominent member of several Jewish organizations, acting as president of many, including the Leo Baeck Institute.

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Programme for the Leo Baeck Institute of Jews from Germany

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Primarily but not exclusively, the Institute would like to concern itself with the history of German Jewry since the Emancipation. The factual events leading to the catastrophe under the Nazi regime…