Simon Rawidowicz
Simon Rawidowicz | |
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| File:Simon Rawidowicz - Ha'Olam 1926.jpg Rawidowicz in 1926 | |
| Born | 1896 Grajewo, Poland |
| Died | 1957 (aged 60–61) Waltham, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Occupation | Philosopher |
| Spouse | |
| Relatives | Alfred Klee (father-in-law) Hanneli Goslar (niece) |
Simon Rawidowicz (1896–1957) was a Polish-born American Jewish philosopher.
Early life
[edit | edit source]Simon Rawidowicz was born in 1896 in Grajewo, Poland to Chaim Yitzchak Rawidowicz (later Ravid), a Zionist activist, a travelling merchant, a writer, and a pioneer farmer, and to Chana Batya (née. Rembelinker). A second of ten children – seven of whom survived childhood – he studied at the modern Yeshiva at Lida. Rawidowicz received a traditional Jewish education, during the course of which he became attracted to the Haskalah and Modern Hebrew literature.[1] He was drawn to the reviving Hebrew language and literature, and before turning 18 he became a teacher at a cheder metukan ("improved cheder") .[2] He was educated in Germany.[3] 1933 he emigrated to the United Kingdom.
He married Esther Klee in 1926, the daughter of Alfred Klee and the maternal aunt of Hanneli Goslar (Anne Frank's best friend).[citation needed]
Career
[edit | edit source]Rawidowicz taught at the Jews' College in London and at the Leeds University (as of 1941). In 1948 he emigrated to the United States, first teaching at the College of Jewish Studies of Chicago. Rawidowicz served as the chair of the Department of Near-Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University.[3][4] He was the author of several books and essays, some of which were published posthumously.
Rawidowicz was a critic of Zionism.[5] In his essay entitled Between Jew and Arab, he suggested that early Arab refugees in Israel were treated differently from Jews as early as 1948.[5] In The Ever-Dying People, he argued that each generation of Jews was afraid of extinction.[6][7]
Death
[edit | edit source]Rawidowicz died of a heart attack in 1957 in Waltham, Massachusetts.[4][8]
Works
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Further reading
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References
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- 1897 births
- 1957 deaths
- Polish emigrants to the United States
- Brandeis University faculty
- Jewish American philosophers
- Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United Kingdom
- Emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United Kingdom
- 20th-century American essayists
- People from Grajewo
- American people of Polish-Jewish descent
- Jewish American academics
- Academics of the London School of Jewish Studies
- Academics of the University of Leeds
- 20th-century Polish Jews
- 20th-century American Jews