Emil Ludwig Fackenheim , 1916-2003, Canadian-Israeli rabbi and philosopher, b. Halle, Germany, grad. Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums, 1939; Ph.D., Univ. of Toronto, 1945. Briefly interned at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp (1938-39), he became a rabbi and left Germany for Great Britain, where he was interned as an enemy alien after World War II began. He was sent to Canada in 1940, where he was a rabbi (1943-48), then professor of philosophy (1948-84) at the Univ. of Toronto; he subsequently moved to Israel, where he was associated with the Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem. Fackenheim explored the problem of revelation and the relationship of the Jews with God, believing that the Holocaust must be understood as an imperative requiring Jews to carry on Jewish existence and that the existence of the state of Israel is a rebuke to those who view the Jewish people as obsolete or dying. Among his books are God's Presence in History (1972) and To Mend the World (1982).
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Reflections on Emil L. Fackenheim z"l (1916-2003): the man and his holocaust philosophy.(Obituary)
Shofar; 6/22/2004; Garber, Zev; 13886 words;
... midst. What for Fackenheim was the supreme ... to survive, as Fackenheim clearly understood. Fackenheim has asserted that ... State of Israel as Fackenheim, I take a bleakly ... Israel. I concur in Fackenheim's position that ... fully apparent, Fackenheim was completely ... the richness of ...
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Emil Fackenheim, 87, Jewish theologian OBITUARY
International Herald Tribune; 10/13/2003; 92 words;
International Herald Tribune 10-13-2003 Emil Ludwig Fackenheim, a German-born philosopher and Jewish theologian ... was 87. Having himself had a narrow escape in 1939, Fackenheim spent much of his working life in Canada, probing ...
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Holocaust theologian Fackenheim was first-rate thinker
Cleveland Jewish News; 10/17/2003; Levenson, Alan; 694 words;
Levenson, Alan Cleveland Jewish News 10-17-2003 Emil Ludwig Fackenheim, a Jewish thinker best known for arresting turns of phrase, such as "the commanding voice of Auschwitz" and "the 614th commandment ... Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass), November 9-10, 1938. After fleeing to Great Britain with ...
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BEYOND PHILOSOPHY
Jerusalem Post; 4/14/1995; Netty C. Gross; 3935 words;
... 04-14-1995 Fackenheim. The name is ... patrician, Prof. Emil Ludwig Fackenheim - padding around ... Thoughts on Fackenheim Prof. Emil Fackenheim's marginality ... of here. But Emil is a fighter ... esn't agree with Fackenheim's political ...
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Jews and Christians in Germany: A new but still troubled relationship *.
Journal of Ecumenical Studies; 3/22/2001; Holmgren, Fredrick C.; 9403 words;
... community (including Prof. Emil Fackenheim, Martin-Luther Universitat ... Swiss professor, Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich, was honored ... pp. 7, 55. Prof Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich, in Kommentar ... guest professor at Albert-Ludwig-Universitat in Freiburg ...
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