Biographical/Historical Information
The historian Nahum N(orbert) Glatzer was born in Lemberg, Galicia, in 1903. He went to Frankfurt/Main at age 17 to study Judaism, meeting and studying with Franz Rosenzweig, Martin Buber, and others. In 1932, Glatzer became Lecturer in Jewish Religious Philosophy and Ethics at the University of Frankfurt. He escaped Nazism in 1933, living in London and in Palestine, and in 1937 he emigrated to the United States, teaching in Chicago before he became Professor of Jewish history at Brandeis University and chairman of its department of Near Eastern and Judaic studies. Nahum Glatzer died in Tucson, AZ in 1990.
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Norbert Nathan Glatzer, Leo Baeck Institute, F 1771.