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    Artist

  • Unknown Artist

    • Title

  • Portrait of Rabbi Dr. Max Nussbaum, Berlin 1934; 1966

  • Physical Description

    Drawing : pencil and ink on paper mounted on board ; 10.75" x 8.25" (27.35 x 20.96 cm.)

  • Date

    1966

  • Place of Publication

    Buenos Aires

  • Summary

    Profile portrait of Rabbi Dr. Max Nussbaum. Titled, and signed by Nussbaum on diagonal in lower right corner. Inscribed and dated in lower left.

    Probable rendering of Rabbi Dr. Max Nussbaum upon his arrival in Berlin in 1934; drawn and dedicated to Nussbaum in Buenos Aires, Oct. 29, 1966.

  • Depicted

    Nussbaum, Max, 1910-1974

  • Subject

    Rabbis; Portraits, Men

  • Genre

    Portraits

  • Medium

    Drawings

  • Part Of

    Herbert and Nancy Bernhard Collection, AR 25258

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Biographical/Historical Information

Max Nussbaum was born 1908 in Suczawa, Bukovina (today Suceava, Romania), and was ordained in 1933 at the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau, Germany, where he also earned a Ph.D. He served as a rabbi in Berlin until 1940, when he immigrated to the United States and briefed the US government on the situation of Jews in Nazi Germany. In 1942, he was appointed rabbi of Temple Israel in Hollywood, California, where he remained until his death in 1974 and served as rabbi to many Hollywood stars.

After escaping Berlin and arriving in the United States, the leaders of Temple Israel of Hollywood, California brought him to their community in 1942 to be their rabbi. Wanting his congregation to be exposed to the best of contemporary thought and experience, Nussbaum invited leading figures in American and Jewish life, including Leo Baeck.

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Citation

Unknown Artist: Portrait of Rabbi Dr. Max Nussbaum, Berlin 1934; 1966, Leo Baeck Institute, 2007.72.