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Book Jewish Judaica 1936 Dr. Nathan Birnbaum RUFE in German Antwerp Messiah WW2
Book Jewish Judaica 1936 Dr. Nathan Birnbaum RUFE in German Antwerp Messiah WW2
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Jewish Judaica 1936 Dr. Nathan Birnbaum Book RUFE in German Antwerp Messiah WW2
Nathan Birnbaum (Hebrew: נתן בירנבוים; pseudonyms: "Mathias Acher", "Dr. N. Birner", "Mathias Palme", "Anton Skart", "Theodor Schwarz", and "Pantarhei"; 16 May 1864 – 2 April 1937) was an Austrian writer and journalist, Jewish thinker and nationalist.[1][2] His life had three main phases, representing a progression in his thinking: a Zionist phase (c. 1883 – c. 1900); a Jewish cultural autonomy phase (c. 1900 – c. 1914) which included the promotion of the Yiddish language; and religious phase (c. 1914–1937) when he turned to Orthodox Judaism and became staunchly anti-Zionist.
At the end of his life in Dutch exile from the Nazis, he published the volume Rufe (Callings). In this 1936 compilation of his most recent German-language articles, the last essay is entitled ‘Moschiach’, the German transliteration of the Hebrew word for messiah.37 The tone of the article had notably changed from personal attachment to the Messiah to a more traditional religious essay on belief in a messiah, but this article completed a messianic strain in Birnbaum’s thinking through most of his life. Birnbaum’s messianism, as traced here both in his own writings and in the writings of others about him, peaked in a period between 1907 and his Yiddish translation of God’s People in 1921. In a career that began in the 1880s and ended in the 1930s, this period of fourteen years reflects the broader messianic and revolutionary atmosphere among European Jewish intellectuals before, during, and after the First World War.
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