| LC control no. | no2018148177 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Joseph, Max, 1868-1950 |
| Variant(s) | Yosef, Maḳs, 1868-1950 יוסף, מקס |
| Associated country | Germany |
| Located | Słupsk (Poland) Haifa (Israel) |
| Birth date | 1868 |
| Death date | 1950 |
| Place of birth | Filehne (Germany) |
| Place of death | Haifa (Israel) |
| Field of activity | Tutors and tutoring Zionism Zionism--Philosoophy Jewish nationalism Reform Judaism Wissenschaft des Judentums (Movement) Judaism--Doctrines Antisemitism Messianism |
| Affiliation | Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums (Berlin, Germany) Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin |
| Profession or occupation | Rabbis Authors |
| Special note | Non-Latin script reference not evaluated. |
| Found in | Joseph, Max. ha-Yahadut ʻal parashat derakhim, 2018: title page (Maks Yosef = מקס יוסף) added title page (Max Joseph [in rom.]) page 13 (Author of Das Judentum am Scheidewege) English table of contents (Rabbi Max Mordecai Joseph) Brill online, viewed October 25, 2018 Rabbi Max Joseph: Between Reform and Zionism by George Y. Kohler (German Rabbi Max Joseph (1868-1950) was at the same time an ardent Zionist and the follower of a non-orthodox, academic approach to Judaism. Max Joseph was born in 1868 in Filehne, near Posen. At the age of 17, he was sent to Berlin to study both Judaism at the liberal Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums, as well as humanities at the Berlin university. Due to his adherence to both Reform Judaism and Zionism, it was hard for him to find a position as a Reform rabbi in Germany. Finally, in 1902, after twelve years of struggling to survive as an author and private tutor, Joseph was offered the rabbinate in the small Pomeranian town of Stolp (today the Polish town of Słupsk). In addition to his rabbinical duties, he wrote about the phiosophy of Zionsm and how he envisioned its fitting into the theology of Reform Judaism. After the Nazi rise to power in 1933, as with other prominent German Jews, Rabbi Joseph received several death threats demanding he leave Germany immediately. The situation was serious enough for him to send his wife and youngest daughter to Berlin; his two elder daughters had already left for Palestine. He himself, however, stayed with the community, as many of his rabbinical colleagues in other German towns did, often until it was too late to escape the Nazi terror. Fortuitously, Max Joseph reached retirement age in 1936, after 34 years of communal service, and used the opportunity to leave Stolp for the Land of Israel. He settled in Haifa. As a Reform rabbi in Palestine, he could not be employed by the religious establishement and so was supported by his daughters. After learning that his youngest daughter Suzy had been killed in a German concentration camp, he lost his zest for life; he never forgave himself for leaving her behind. In deep depression, Rabbi Max Joseph died in 1950, at the age of 82.) <http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/15700704-12341295> |
| Associated language | ger |
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