Ernst Simon Explained
Ernst Simon should not be confused with Ernst Julius Walter Simon.
Ernst Akiva Simon |
Native Name: | עקיבא ארְנְסְט סימון |
Native Name Lang: | he |
Birth Date: | 15 March 1900 |
Birth Place: | Berlin, Germany |
Death Place: | Jerusalem, Israel |
Nationality: | Israel |
Occupation: | Educator, religious philosopher |
Awards: | Israel Prize (1967) |
Ernst Akiva Simon (Hebrew: עקיבא ארְנְסְט סימון; March 15, 1900 in Berlin – August 18, 1988 in Jerusalem) was a German-Jewish educator and religious philosopher.
Teaching career and political activism
In the 1920s, Ernst Simon co-founded Brit Shalom along with Martin Buber, an organization espousing a binational solution for promoting the co-existence of Jews and Arabs in the State of Israel. From 1930 to 1933 he taught at the Hebrew Reali School Haifa, headed by Arthur Biram. In 1942, he was one of the founders of the binationalist Ihud party.
Published works
- Aufbau im Untergang. Jüdische Erwachsenenbildung im nationalsozialistischen Deutschland als geistiger Widerstand. Tübingen: Mohr 1959. (Schriftenreihe wissenschaftlicher Abhandlungen des Leo Baeck Institute of Jews from Germany. 2).
- Brücken. Gesammelte Aufsätze. Heidelberg: Schneider 1965.
- Selbstdarstellung. In: Pädagogik in Selbstdarstellungen. Hamburg: Meiner, Bd. 1 (1975), S. 272–333.
- Entscheidung zum Judentum. Essays und Vorträge. Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp Verlag 1980. (Bibliothek Suhrkamp. 641).
- Sechzig Jahre gegen den Strom. Briefe von 1917-1984. Hrsg. vom Leo-Baeck-Institut, Jerusalem. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 1998. (Schriftenreihe wissenschaftlicher Abhandlungen des Leo-Baeck-Instituts. 59).
Awards and recognition
In 1967, Simon was awarded the Israel Prize, for education.[1]
See also
Further reading
- Rudolf Lennert: Über das Leben der deutschen Sprache in Jerusalem. In: Neue Sammlung. Göttingen. Bd. 6 (1966) S. 617-627 (über Ernst Simon, Ludwig Strauss and Werner Kraft).
- Jan Woppowa in: Biographisch-bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon. Begr. und hrsg. von Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz. Fortgef. von [Traugott Bautz]. Bd. 21 (2003) Sp. 1439–1446.
- Ephraim Chamiel, Between Religion and Reason - The Dialectical Position in Contemporary Jewish Thought, Academic Studies Press, Boston 2020, part I, pp. 98-107.
Notes and References
- Web site: Israel Prize Official Site - Recipients in 1967 (in Hebrew) . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120307204304/http://cms.education.gov.il/EducationCMS/Units/PrasIsrael/Tashkag/Tashlab_Tashkag_Rikuz.htm?DictionaryKey=Tashkaz . 2012-03-07 .