Goldmann biography

Nahum Goldmann was born in Lithuania and grew up in Germany in an identified Jewish home. He was educated at German universities where he studied philosophy and law. From an early age he became strongly allied with Zionist thought, and during World War I, while working at the Jewish division of the German Foreign Ministry, he attempted to enlist the Kaiser's support for the Zionist idea.

In the s, Goldmann was involved in publishing a Zionist periodical and also in launching the project of a German Jewish encyclopedia. In all, twelve volumes of the encyclopedia, ten in German and two in Hebrew, appeared before the Nazi rise to power halted the project. Retaining the idea, Goldmann was a crucial figure in the s behind the English language Encyclopedia Judaica.

Goldmann was involved in a range of Zionist causes during the Mandate periodMandate period, Goldmann was involved in a range of Zionist causes, including negotiations with the British, aimed at realizi

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Adam Joachim Goldmann

Where did the idea for your portrait’s staging and setting come from?

The Book Burning Memorial on Bebelplatz was one of the very first places I visited when I came to Berlin for the first time in I was deeply moved by the memorial itself, which marks the absence of a presence, as well as the fact that this display of barbarism took place there of all places, between Humboldt University and the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, at the center of this axis of high culture and education. Years later, as an opera critic, I started spending time at that opera house. Whenever I walk across Bebelplatz during intermissions, I think about the bizarreness of the history of this country and this city where barbarity and civilization are so closely linked.

How do you experience Jewish life in Berlin?

In Berlin, I’ve always tried to create my own kehilla outside the official community with homemade Shabbat and holiday meals where I bring together my Jewish and non-Jewish fri

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Lucien Goldmann

Romanian-French philosopher, Marxist theoretician, and sociologist (–)

Lucien Goldmann (French:[ɡɔldman]; 20 July – 8 October ) was a French philosopher and sociologist of Jewish-Romanian ursprung. A professor at the EHESS in Paris, he was a Marxist theorist. His wife was sociologist Annie Goldmann.

Biography

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Goldmann was born in Bucharest, Romania, but grew up in Botoşani.^{[citation needed]} He studied law at the University of Bucharest and the University of Vienna beneath the Austromarxist jurist högsta Adler.^[1] In , he went to the University of Paris to study political economy, literature, and philosophy. He moved to Switzerland in November , where he was placed in a refugee camp until ^[1]

Through Jean Piaget's intervention, he was subsequently given a scholarship to the University of Zurich,^[1] where he completed his PhD in philosophy in under the supervision of Karl Dürr&#;[de] with a thesis ent