Biographical/Historical Information
Rabbi Joachim Prinz was born in Bierdzan, Silesia in 1902. After studies at the University of Giessen and the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau, Prinz was invited to Berlin in January 1926, becoming the youngest rabbi serving the Jewish community. Prinz was a vocal and public critic of Nazism even after 1933, resulting in his being repeatedly arrested by the Gestapo. He traveled to the United States in 1937 upon the invitation of Rabbi Stephen S. Wise and, once there, decided to immigrate. Joachim Prinz settled in New Jersey as rabbi of Temple B'Nai Abraham in Newark, and he became vice-chairman of the World Jewish Congress, an active member of the World Zionist Organization, and an outspoken civil rights leader, participating in the Great March on Washington in 1963. Rabbi Joachim Prinz died in Livingston, NJ in 1988.
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Rabbi Joachim Prinz, Leo Baeck Institute, F 2874.