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Glatzer was born in [[Lemberg]], then part of the [[Austria-Hungary|Austro-Hungarian Empire]] (now Lviv in the western Ukraine).<ref name="Sheppard2004">{{cite journal |last1=Sheppard |first1=Eugene R. |date=2004|title="I am a Memory Come Alive": Nahum Glatzer and the Legacy of German Jewish Thought in America |journal=The Jewish Quarterly Review |volume=94 |issue=1 |pages=123–148 |doi=10.1353/jqr.2004.0009 |jstor=1455520|s2cid=161588432 }}</ref> At the start of World War I his family moved westward to Bodenbach in Silesia where Norbert attended Gymnasium. At age 17, his father sent him to study with [[Solomon Breuer]] in Frankfurt, Germany with the intention that he would become a Rabbi.<ref name="Mendes-Flohr1991">{{cite journal |last1=Mendes-Flohr |first1=Paul |date=1991|title="Knowledge as Service: An Appreciation of Nahum N. Glatzer |journal=Jewish Studies |volume=31 |issue=1 |pages=25–46 |jstor=23382059}}</ref> After encountering the circle of Jewish intellectuals, including [[Franz Rosenzweig]], around Rabbi [[Nehemiah Anton Nobel]] he decided against the rabbinate.<ref name="Klinengstein2010">{{cite magazine |last=Klingenstein |first=Susanne |date=October 25, 2010 |title=Of Greeks and Jews |url=https://www.weeklystandard.com/susanne-klingenstein/of-greeks-and-jews |magazine=The Weekly Standard |location=Washington, DC |publisher=MediaDC |access-date=November 11, 2018 }}</ref> In July 1920, Rosenzweig invited Glatzer to join the newly-established Freies Jüdisches Lehrhaus,<ref name="Fishbane1975">{{cite book |editor1-last=Fishbane |editor1-first=Michael |editor2-last=Flohr |editor2-first=Paul R. | date=1975 |title=Texts and Responses: Studies Presented to Nahum N. Glatzer on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday by his Students |location=Leiden |publisher=Brill |page=ix |isbn= 9004039805 }}</ref> where he taught biblical exegesis, Hebrew, and the Midrash.<ref name="Mendes-Flohr1991"/> He also prepared an index of the Jewish sources for the second edition of Rosenzweig's ''The Star of Redemption''.<ref name="Brasser2013">{{cite book|author=Martin Brasser|title=Rosenzweig als Leser: Kontextuelle Kommentare zum "Stern der Erlösung"|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PbvnBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA24|date=2004|publisher=De Gruyter|isbn=978-3-11-093425-0|page=24}}</ref> Glatzer completed a doctoral dissertation at the [[Goethe University Frankfurt]] in December 1931 under the supervision of [[Martin Buber]], [[Paul Tillich]] and [[Jacob Horowitz]]. In 1932, Glazner became Lecturer in Jewish Religious Philosophy and Ethics at the university, succeeding Buber.<ref name="Mendes-Flohr1991"/> After the National Socialists came to power in 1933, Glatzer and his wife departed to his in-laws in London. From London, he wrote to Martin Buber on April 27, 1933 that his faculty position had been suspended as a consequence of the passage of the [[Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service]] on April 7, 1933.<ref>{{cite book |last=Buber |first=Martin |date=1993 |title=The Letters of Martin Buber: A Life of Dialogue|editor1-last=Glatzer |editor1-first=Nahum Norbert|editor2-first=Mendes-Flohrs|editor2-last=Paul |location=New York |publisher=Schocken Press}}</ref>
Glatzer was born in [[Lemberg]], then part of the [[Austria-Hungary|Austro-Hungarian Empire]] (now Lviv in the western Ukraine).<ref name="Sheppard2004">{{cite journal |last1=Sheppard |first1=Eugene R. |date=2004|title="I am a Memory Come Alive": Nahum Glatzer and the Legacy of German Jewish Thought in America |journal=The Jewish Quarterly Review |volume=94 |issue=1 |pages=123–148 |doi=10.1353/jqr.2004.0009 |jstor=1455520|s2cid=161588432 }}</ref> At the start of World War I his family moved westward to Bodenbach in Silesia where Norbert attended Gymnasium. At age 17, his father sent him to study with [[Solomon Breuer]] in Frankfurt, Germany with the intention that he would become a Rabbi.<ref name="Mendes-Flohr1991">{{cite journal |last1=Mendes-Flohr |first1=Paul |date=1991|title="Knowledge as Service: An Appreciation of Nahum N. Glatzer |journal=Jewish Studies |volume=31 |issue=1 |pages=25–46 |jstor=23382059}}</ref> After encountering the circle of Jewish intellectuals, including [[Franz Rosenzweig]], around Rabbi [[Nehemiah Anton Nobel]] he decided against the rabbinate.<ref name="Klinengstein2010">{{cite magazine |last=Klingenstein |first=Susanne |date=October 25, 2010 |title=Of Greeks and Jews |url=https://www.weeklystandard.com/susanne-klingenstein/of-greeks-and-jews |magazine=The Weekly Standard |location=Washington, DC |publisher=MediaDC |access-date=November 11, 2018 }}</ref> In July 1920, Rosenzweig invited Glatzer to join the newly-established Freies Jüdisches Lehrhaus,<ref name="Fishbane1975">{{cite book |editor1-last=Fishbane |editor1-first=Michael |editor2-last=Flohr |editor2-first=Paul R. | date=1975 |title=Texts and Responses: Studies Presented to Nahum N. Glatzer on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday by his Students |location=Leiden |publisher=Brill |page=ix |isbn= 9004039805 }}</ref> where he taught biblical exegesis, Hebrew, and the Midrash.<ref name="Mendes-Flohr1991"/> He also prepared an index of the Jewish sources for the second edition of Rosenzweig's ''The Star of Redemption''.<ref name="Brasser2013">{{cite book|author=Martin Brasser|title=Rosenzweig als Leser: Kontextuelle Kommentare zum "Stern der Erlösung"|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PbvnBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA24|date=2004|publisher=De Gruyter|isbn=978-3-11-093425-0|page=24}}</ref> Glatzer completed a doctoral dissertation at the [[Goethe University Frankfurt]] in December 1931 under the supervision of [[Martin Buber]], [[Paul Tillich]] and [[Jacob Horowitz]]. In 1932, Glazner became Lecturer in Jewish Religious Philosophy and Ethics at the university, succeeding Buber.<ref name="Mendes-Flohr1991"/> After the National Socialists came to power in 1933, Glatzer and his wife departed to his in-laws in London. From London, he wrote to Martin Buber on April 27, 1933 that his faculty position had been suspended as a consequence of the passage of the [[Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service]] on April 7, 1933.<ref>{{cite book |last=Buber |first=Martin |date=1993 |title=The Letters of Martin Buber: A Life of Dialogue|editor1-last=Glatzer |editor1-first=Nahum Norbert|editor2-first=Mendes-Flohrs|editor2-last=Paul |location=New York |publisher=Schocken Press}}</ref>


From 1933 to 1937 Nahum Glatzer taught Jewish history at the Beit Sefer Reali in [[Haifa]]. In 1938 Glatzer accepted a teaching position at the [[Hebrew College]] in Chicago and he and his wife, Anny née Stiebel and son, immigrated to the United States. He subsequently taught at Hebrew Teacher’s college in Boston. Glatzer was editor-in-chief of [[Schocken Books]] from 1946-1951 and remained affiliated as Senior Consulting Editor until 1987. Glatzer was professor of Jewish Philosophy and Ethics at [[Brandeis University]], 1951-1973 and University Professor in Religion at [[Boston University]] 1973-1986. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the recipient of 6 honorary degrees.
From 1933 to 1937 Nahum Glatzer taught Jewish history at the Beit Sefer Reali in [[Haifa]]. In 1938 Glatzer accepted a teaching position at the [[Hebrew College]] in Chicago and he and his wife, Anny née Stiebel and son, immigrated to the United States. He subsequently taught at Hebrew Teacher’s college in Boston. Glatzer was editor-in-chief of [[Schocken Books]] from 1946-1951 and remained affiliated as Senior Consulting Editor until 1987. Glatzer was professor of Jewish Philosophy and Ethics at [[Brandeis University]], 1951-1973 and University Professor in Religion at [[Boston University]] 1973-1986. In 1976, he was elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.amacad.org/sites/default/files/media/document/2019-10/ChapterG.pdf |website=Members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1780-2019 |access-date=18 July 2021}}</ref> and was the recipient of seven honorary degrees.<ref>{{cite web |title=Nahum Norbert Glatzer papers |url=http://findingaids.brandeis.edu/repositories/2/resources/292 |access-date=18 July 2021}}</ref>


==Personal life==
==Personal life==

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Nahum Norbert Glatzer
Born(1903-03-25)March 25, 1903
Lemberg, Austria-Hungary
DiedFebruary 27, 1990(1990-02-27) (aged 86)
Tucson, Arizona, United States
Academic background
InfluencesFranz Rosenzweig, Martin Buber
Academic work
School or traditionJewish theology and philosophy

Nahum Norbert Glatzer (March 25, 1903 – February 27, 1990) was a scholar of Jewish history and philosophy from antiquity to mid 20th century.[1]

Life

Glatzer was born in Lemberg, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Lviv in the western Ukraine).[2] At the start of World War I his family moved westward to Bodenbach in Silesia where Norbert attended Gymnasium. At age 17, his father sent him to study with Solomon Breuer in Frankfurt, Germany with the intention that he would become a Rabbi.[3] After encountering the circle of Jewish intellectuals, including Franz Rosenzweig, around Rabbi Nehemiah Anton Nobel he decided against the rabbinate.[4] In July 1920, Rosenzweig invited Glatzer to join the newly-established Freies Jüdisches Lehrhaus,[5] where he taught biblical exegesis, Hebrew, and the Midrash.[3] He also prepared an index of the Jewish sources for the second edition of Rosenzweig's The Star of Redemption.[6] Glatzer completed a doctoral dissertation at the Goethe University Frankfurt in December 1931 under the supervision of Martin Buber, Paul Tillich and Jacob Horowitz. In 1932, Glazner became Lecturer in Jewish Religious Philosophy and Ethics at the university, succeeding Buber.[3] After the National Socialists came to power in 1933, Glatzer and his wife departed to his in-laws in London. From London, he wrote to Martin Buber on April 27, 1933 that his faculty position had been suspended as a consequence of the passage of the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service on April 7, 1933.[7]

From 1933 to 1937 Nahum Glatzer taught Jewish history at the Beit Sefer Reali in Haifa. In 1938 Glatzer accepted a teaching position at the Hebrew College in Chicago and he and his wife, Anny née Stiebel and son, immigrated to the United States. He subsequently taught at Hebrew Teacher’s college in Boston. Glatzer was editor-in-chief of Schocken Books from 1946-1951 and remained affiliated as Senior Consulting Editor until 1987. Glatzer was professor of Jewish Philosophy and Ethics at Brandeis University, 1951-1973 and University Professor in Religion at Boston University 1973-1986. In 1976, he was elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences[8] and was the recipient of seven honorary degrees.[9]

Personal life

Nahum Norbert Glatzer married Anne Stiebel in January 1932. A son, Daniel Franz, was born in Haifa, Palestine in 1933 and a daughter, Judith Eve, in Chicago in 1940. Glatzer has two granddaughters, Johanna Wechsler and Rina Redrup.[10]

Scholarship

Glatzer’s first anthology, edited with Ludwig Strauss, Sendung und Shicksal, was published by Schocken Verlag in 1931, who also published his dissertation Untersuchungen zu Geschichtslehr der Tannaiten: Ein Beitrag zur Religionsgeschichte, in 1932. Glatzer introduced Franz Rosenzweig to an English readership through his biography, Rosenweig: His Life and Thought, 1953, and edited several additional volumes on the philosopher. Glatzer presented I am a Memory Come Alive : Autobiographical Writings by Franz Kafka and edited a number of English translations of the author, including Parables and Paradoxes, the diaries and letters. Glatzer’s scholarship ranged from Ancient history to modern Jewish philosophy, editing volumes on the German Enlightenment thinker, Leopold Zunz, and on the philosopher Martin Buber, including a volume of his letters edited with Paul Mendes-Flohr. Glatzer is known for his many anthologies of source material covering the breadth of Jewish interpretive texts, midrash and Mishnah, as well as literature and are noted for their editorial discretion and aesthetic.

Nahum Glatzer’s last book was The Loves of Franz Kafka, 1986. The Memoirs of Nahum N. Glatzer was published in 1997.[11]

References

  1. ^ "Nahum Norbert Glatzer Papers". Robert D. Farber University Archives and Special Collections Department, Brandeis University Libraries. 2005. Retrieved 16 Jun 2016.
  2. ^ Sheppard, Eugene R. (2004). ""I am a Memory Come Alive": Nahum Glatzer and the Legacy of German Jewish Thought in America". The Jewish Quarterly Review. 94 (1): 123–148. doi:10.1353/jqr.2004.0009. JSTOR 1455520. S2CID 161588432.
  3. ^ a b c Mendes-Flohr, Paul (1991). ""Knowledge as Service: An Appreciation of Nahum N. Glatzer". Jewish Studies. 31 (1): 25–46. JSTOR 23382059.
  4. ^ Klingenstein, Susanne (October 25, 2010). "Of Greeks and Jews". The Weekly Standard. Washington, DC: MediaDC. Retrieved November 11, 2018.
  5. ^ Fishbane, Michael; Flohr, Paul R., eds. (1975). Texts and Responses: Studies Presented to Nahum N. Glatzer on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday by his Students. Leiden: Brill. p. ix. ISBN 9004039805.
  6. ^ Martin Brasser (2004). Rosenzweig als Leser: Kontextuelle Kommentare zum "Stern der Erlösung". De Gruyter. p. 24. ISBN 978-3-11-093425-0.
  7. ^ Buber, Martin (1993). Glatzer, Nahum Norbert; Paul, Mendes-Flohrs (eds.). The Letters of Martin Buber: A Life of Dialogue. New York: Schocken Press.
  8. ^ Members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1780-2019 https://www.amacad.org/sites/default/files/media/document/2019-10/ChapterG.pdf. Retrieved 18 July 2021. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  9. ^ "Nahum Norbert Glatzer papers". Retrieved 18 July 2021.
  10. ^ Glatzer Wechsler, Judith (2011). Nahum Glatzer and the German-Jewish Tradition (A documentary film).
  11. ^ Barbara Ellen Galli (1995). Franz Rosenzweig and Jehuda Halevi. McGill Queen's University Press. p. 314. ISBN 9780773524156.
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