Wir trauern um Professor Yehuda Bauer sel. A. (1926–2024) und Professor Paul Mendes-Flohr sel. A. (1941–2024)
Zum Tod von Yehuda Bauer, der am 18. Oktober 2024 in Jerusalem verstarb, veröffentlichte seine langjährige Wirkungsstätte, das International Institute for Holocaust Research in Yad Vashem folgenden Nachruf (Auszug):
Born in Prague in 1926, Prof. Bauer’s early life was marked by upheaval, as his family fled to Poland in 1939, eventually making their way to Eretz Israel (then Mandatory Palestine) via Romania. He completed his high school education in Haifa and later attended Cardiff University in Wales with the support of a British scholarship. Upon returning to Israel, he joined Kibbutz Shuvel and pursued a degree at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he earned his doctorate in 1960 with a thesis focused on Jewish settlement during British rule in the Land of Israel (British Mandate of Palestine).
Yehuda Bauer began his illustrious academic career at the Avraham Herman Institute of Contemporary Judaism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he served as Professor Emeritus of History and Holocaust studies for many years. A prolific scholar, he authored numerous seminal articles and books on the Holocaust and genocide, founded and edited the journal “Holocaust and Genocide Studies”, and was awarded the Israel Prize in 1998 for his significant contributions to Holocaust research.
Paul Mendes-Flohr verstarb am 24. Oktober 2024 in Jerusalem. Er war lange Jahre Direktor des Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History an der Hebräischen Universität. Von Professor Benjamin Pollock, der das Rosenzweig Center heute leitet, erreicht uns folgender Nachruf (Auszug):
Paul Mendes-Flohr, long-time director of the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center and the preeminent historian of German-Jewish thought for nearly half a century, died on Thursday. Born in Brooklyn in 1941, Prof. Mendes-Flohr pursued his graduate studies at Brandeis University under the likes of Alexander Altmann and Nahum Glatzer, from whom he learned to approach scholarship, he would often say, as craft, as calling, and as service. He completed his dissertation on Martin Buber’s social thought in 1972. By the early 1970s, Prof. Mendes-Flohr had moved to Jerusalem and was teaching at the Hebrew University. […]
Through his countless monographs, his broad-minded anthologies of Jewish Thought and edited volumes, the magisterial collection of Buber’s writings he edited, and the scores of up-and-coming scholars he advised, Prof. Mendes-Flohr shaped the field of Modern Jewish Thought in incomparable fashion. He also invested his heart and soul in stamping the field with his ethos. Prof. Mendes-Flohr committed himself to engaging in the very kind of dialogue with others that was described and analyzed by the German-Jewish thinkers about whom he wrote. He believed such dialogue could nourish the values of equality, justice, and compassion which the world so sorely needs.
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