Leo Baeck
Leo Baeck was a 20thcentury German rabbi, scholar and theologian. He served as leader of Liberal Judaism in his native country and internationally, and later represented all German Jews during the Nazi era.
Baeck was born in Lissa , the son of Rabbi Samuel Baeck, and began his education at the Jewish Theological Seminary of Breslau in 1894. He also studied philosophy in Berlin with Wilhelm Dilthey, served as a rabbi in Oppeln, Dsseldorf, and Berlin, and taught at the Hochschule fr die Wissenschaft des Judentums . In 1905 Baeck published The Essence of Judaism, in response to Adolf von Harnacks What is Christianity. This book, which interpreted and valorized Judaism through a prism of NeoKantianism tempered with religious existentialism, made him a famous proponent for the Jewish people and their faith. During World War I, Baeck was a chaplain in the German Imperial Army.
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