Ernst Simon

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Ernst Simon
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1 photograph : black-and-white ; 19.5 x 24 centimeters
Summary

Seated portrait of the educator Ernst Akibah Simon at a desk.
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Simon, Akibah Ernst, 1899-1988
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Authors; Educators; Philosophers; Portraits, Men
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Photographs
Part Of

Ernst Simon Collection, AR 108
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https://www.lbi.org/griffinger/record/243794

Biographical/Historical Information

Ernst Akiva Simon was born in Berlin in 1889. After serving in the German army during World War I, he earned a doctorate at the university of Heidelberg in 1923. Simon emigrated to Palestine in 1928 and joined the education department of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1938. He was one of the founders of the Leo Baeck Institute, and in 1967, he received the Israel Prize in education. Next to his academic and intellectual activities in the fields of Jewish philosophy, humanistic Judaism, and education, Simon was a leading figure in political groups that strived for Jewish-Arab understanding and peace. Ernst Simon died in Jerusalem in 1988.

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Ernst Simon, Leo Baeck Institute, F 3131.

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