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In memory of Leo Baeck, and other Jewish thinkers "in dark times": once more, "After Auschwitz, Jerusalem".

From: Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life andThought  |  Date: 6/22/2002  |  Author: Fackenheim, Emil L.

Remembering Leo Baeck

I LAST SPOKE AT HEBREW UNION COLLEGE, JERUSALEM, ON

November 7, 2000,just prior to the anniversary of Kristallnacht-the event I was to understand, many years after-as the beginning of the Holocaust. Two days later, on November 9, someone in Berlin would mention its late Rabbi Leo Baeck-his name, at least-but I doubted there would be more: who would still have known him? But I had been a student of his, in 1935-1938, at the Berlin Hochschule fur die ...

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