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    Title

  • Kostbar-zierlicher Aufzug der Pragerischen Judenschaft anläßlich der hohen Geburt des Robert Weltsch

    • Other Title(s)

  • Copper Print Block: For Robert Weltsch

  • Physical Description

    1 item : copper plate and wood

  • Summary

    Humorous depiction of all of Prague’s Jews in honor of the birth of Robert Weltsch.

  • Depicted

    Weltsch, Robert.

  • Genre

    Printing plates

  • Medium

    Tools and equipment

  • Accession Number

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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. In 1939 he emigrated to Palestine where he edited the Juedische Welt-Rundschau. In 1945, Weltsch moved to London, where he was correspondent of the daily Ha-aretz, and one of the founders of the Leo Baeck Institute. He returned to Israel in 1978 and died in Jerusalem on December 22, 1982.

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Citation

Kostbar-zierlicher Aufzug der Pragerischen Judenschaft anläßlich der hohen Geburt des Robert Weltsch, Leo Baeck Institute, 61.68.