Sammy Gronemann

Sammy Gronemann (Strasburg, Westpreußen, 21 March 1875 - Tel Aviv, 6 March 1952) was a Jewish German author and Zionist activist.

Samuel (Sammy) Gronemann was the son of the chief rabbi of Hannover.^[1] Gronemann became one of chief contributors to the satirical magazine Schlemiel (which ran 1903-1905, 1919-1924). He fled to Paris in 1933 after the rise of the Nazis, and immigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1936.^[2]

Notable works

Tohuwabohu. 1920 novel
Hawdoloh und Zapfenstreich. 1924 novel
Hamans Flucht. Vienna, R. Löwit, 1926.
Schalet. Beiträge zur Philosophie des „Wenn schon“. 1927
Der Weise und der Narr: with an introduction by Margot Klausner . Tel-Aviv: Moadim, Palestinian Play Publishers, 1942.
Der Prozess um des Esels Schatten. Tel-Aviv: Moadim, Palestinian Play Publishers, 1945.
Erinnerungen. Berlin: Philo, 2002. ISBN 3-86572-268-7
Erinnerungen an meine Jahre in Berlin. Berlin: Philo, 2004. ISBN 3-82570-350-9

References

^ Ruth Gutmann A Final Reckoning: A Hannover Family's Life and Death in the Shoah 2013 0817318097 "Sammy Gronemann was the son of Landrabbiner Selig Gronemann (1883–1918) of Lower Saxony. The Rabbinate of Lower Saxony had been established in 1687."
^ Derek Penslar Israel in History: The Jewish State in Comparative Perspective 2007 1134146698 "One of Schlemiel's chief contributors, the genial Zionist humorist Sammy Gronemann, was the son of the chief rabbi of Hannover and had a thorough yeshiva education, but he did not make use of his Judaic knowledge in his writing, which, despite its paeans to the East European Jewish folk soul and its condemnation of assimilation, was destined for an audience of highly acculturated readers "

External links

Sammy Gronemann at the Internet Broadway Database

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[1] Ruth Gutmann A Final Reckoning: A Hannover Family's Life and Death in the Shoah 2013 0817318097 "Sammy Gronemann was the son of Landrabbiner Selig Gronemann (1883–1918) of Lower Saxony. The Rabbinate of Lower Saxony had been established in 1687."

[2] Derek Penslar Israel in History: The Jewish State in Comparative Perspective 2007 1134146698 "One of Schlemiel's chief contributors, the genial Zionist humorist Sammy Gronemann, was the son of the chief rabbi of Hannover and had a thorough yeshiva education, but he did not make use of his Judaic knowledge in his writing, which, despite its paeans to the East European Jewish folk soul and its condemnation of assimilation, was destined for an audience of highly acculturated readers "

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