I BEGIN BY THANKING PROFESSOR AMIR WHO HAS introduced me. The fact that it was he who introduced me has been emotional for me if only because his father, Yehoshua Amir, was a fellow student of mine, back until 1938, of Leo Baeck's at the Hochschule fur die Wissenschaft des Judentums in Berlin. Then he came on Aljyah, soon was expert in Hebrew, good enough not only to teach but also, no mean task, to translate Franz Rosenzweig's Stern der Erlosung.
Once, as Hebrew teacher he ...