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Rabbi Eliezer Berkovits
fut l'un des plus grands érudits et penseurs juifs
du XXème siècle.
Ses principaux écrits portent sur la Shoah,
l'avenir du Peuple juif, Israël ainsi que la Halakha.
Rabbi Eliezer Berkovits :
Sa Vie et Son Œuvre
His Life and his Works
Sa Vie et Son Œuvre
Sa vie
Eliezer Berkovits est né en 1908 en Autriche-Hongrie. Il a reçu une formation approfondie auprès de Rabbi Akiva Glasner, qui lui conféra l’ordination rabbinique. Il a également étudié au Séminaire Rabbinique Hildesheimer de Berlin comme disciple de Rabbi Yeḥiel Weinberg, un grand Sage dans les différents domaines de la Tora. En parallèle, il a obtenu le titre de Docteur en philosophie à l’université de Berlin...
Il a exercé les fonctions de Rabbin à Berlin (1934-1939), puis en Angleterre (1940 – 1946), en Australie (1946 – 1950) et aux États-Unis (1950 – 1958), où Il fut ensuite nommé Président du Département de philosophie juive à la Yeshiva ‘Hebrew Theological College’. Après avoir immigré avec sa famille en Israël en 1976, il continua donner des conférences jusqu’à sa mort en 1992.
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His Life and His Works
His Life
Rabbi Eliezer Berkovits (8 September 1908, Nagyvárad, Austria-Hungary – 20 August 1992, Jerusalem), was a rabbi, theologian, and educator in the Tradition of Orthodox Judaism.
He was the son of Dov Bernat Berkovits and Beila (Koos) Berkovits. His father (1885, Malčice in Slovakia - 1944, Oradea in Romania) was a rabbi and merchant. His mother died in 1944 in Auschwitz.
He was one of six siblings: Rabbi Moshe David Berkovits (1909, Romania - 1977, Israel), Victor Berkovits (1911, Romania - 1990, Israel), Myriam (Meidi) Berkovits (Romania - 1944, Auschwitz), Rachel Ḥanna Berkovits (Romania - 1944, Auschwitz) and Shmuel Berkovits (Romania - 1944, Auschwitz).
Rabbi Berkovits received his rabbinical training first under Rabbi Akiva Glasner, son of Rabbi Moshe Shmuel Glasner, the Dor Revi’i, including semicha, and then at the Hildesheimer Rabbinical Seminary in Berlin as a disciple of Rabbi Yechiel Weinberg, a great master of Jewish law, and received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Berlin. He served in the rabbinate in Berlin (1934–1939), in Leeds, England (1940–1946), in Sydney, Australia (1946–50), and in Boston (1950–1958). In 1958 he became chairman of the department of Jewish philosophy of the Hebrew Theological College in Skokie. At the age of 67, he immigrated to Israel in 1976 where he taught and lectured until his death in 1992...
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