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    Title

  • Robert Weltsch / Studio portrait by Herbert Sonnenfeld

  • Physical Description

    1 photograph : black-and-white

  • Date

    1935

  • Place of Publication

    Berlin

  • Depicted

    Weltsch, Robert.

  • Subject

    Editors; Journalists; Portraits, Men

  • Genre

    Photographs

  • Part Of

    Hans Kohn Collection, AR 259

  • Accession Number

  • URL

Biographical/Historical Information

Born in Prague on June 20, 1891, Robert Weltsch was active as a student in Zionist youth groups. After World War I he moved to Berlin, where he edited the German Zionist newspaper ‘Juedische Rundschau’ from 1919 to 1938. In 1939 he emigrated to Palestine and edited ‘Juedische Welt-Rundschau’, 1939-1940. In 1945, Weltsch moved to London, working as a correspondent for the Israeli daily ‘Ha-aretz’. He also was one of the founders of the Leo Baeck Institute and editor of its Yearbook, 1956-1971. Robert Weltsch returned to Israel in 1978 and died in Jerusalem on December 22, 1982.

The photographer Herbert Sonnenfeld was born in Berlin in 1906, and after a short visit to Palestine, he excelled in documenting Jewish life in Berlin during the Nazi era. In 1939, he immigrated to New York, where he died in 1972.

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Citation

Robert Weltsch / Studio portrait by Herbert Sonnenfeld, Leo Baeck Institute, F 5176.