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Edmond Fleg

Edmond Flegenheimer, said Edmond Fleg, born 26 November 1874 at Geneva and died on 15 October 1963 in Paris , was a writer, thinker, novelist, essayist and playwright Jewish French of the ^twentieth century.

Summary

1 Biography
2 Works
3 Bibliography
4 External links

/ / Biography

Born into an assimilated family, is the Dreyfus affair to mark the reconciliation and the anchoring of Edmond Fleg to Judaism. He was impressed by Israel Zangwill , an early supporter of Zionism. After fighting in the Foreign Legion during the First World War , he spent his life to deepen his knowledge of Judaism and to share through his writings.

He is the author of a vast fresco poetry in four volumes: "Hear O Israel," "The Lord is our God," "The Lord is One", "And thou shalt love the Lord." He also translated some of the Bible in French: "The Book of the Beginning: Genesis" (1946) and "The Book of Exodus from Egypt" (1963).

There was also an opera librettist for Ernest Bloch (Macbeth) and Georges Enesco (Oedipus).

From the 1920's , he was the honorary president of the Jewish Scouts de France (EIF), the inspirer and adviser of its founder Robert Gamzon.

Edmond Fleg is one of the founders in 1948 of the Judeo-Christian Friendship of France , with, among others, Jules Isaac. He also became a member after the war, the Alliance Israelite Universelle.

In 2003 , in his "Reprinted by Huber," published by the publishing house Huber & Co. in Frauenfeld (Switzerland), Charles Linsmayer introduced the novel Children's prophet with a biography and many previously unpublished photographs of Edmond Fleg. Text dealing for the first time as the mysterious disappearance of Edmond Fleg bottom in 1973 , after the death of his widow, the couple's Paris apartment. Unfortunately the book is in German. His exact title is: Edmond Fleg - L'Enfant prophet / Das Prophetenkind. In der bersetzung von Giovanna Waeckerlin-Idun deutsch und mit einem neu herausgeben biographischen Nachwort versehen von Charles Linsmayer. Reprinted by Huber No. 21, Verlag Huber, Frauenfeld, ( ISBN 3-7193-1367-0 )

Works

Jewish Anthology (1923)
Anthology of Jewish Thought, ed. J'ai Lu, 2006 (ASIN B000LW72CG)
L'Enfant Prophet (1926)
Why I am a Jew (1927)
The Jewish Pope, a play (1925)
The House of God, play (1920)
1929 : The Merchant of Paris -French Comedy
The new song (1946), Albin Michel, 1972 ( ISBN 222604762X )
Moses (1948), repr. Moses told by the wise, Albin Michel, 1997 ( ISBN 2226092897 )
We of Hope (1949)
Correspondence of Edmond Fleg during the Dreyfus Affair , edited by Andrew E. Elbaz, Paris 1976
Jesus told by the Wandering Jew , Albin Michel, 2000 ( ISBN 2226065172 ) "
Hear O Israel, the Lord is our God, Jehovah, Collected Poems, Editions Flammarion, 1954. Rashi is a poem from the previous work.
Toward the coming world Collection "Attendance of Judaism" Editions Albin Michel, Paris 1960

Bibliography

A new version of Jesus as told by the Wandering Jew by Edmond Fleg in Emmanuel Levinas , Difficult Freedom, Albin Michel, 1963.
Yehudi Menuhin , Unfinished Journey, New York, Knopf, 1977 ( ISBN 0-394-41051-3 )
Odile Roussel, A Spiritual Journey: Edmond Fleg, Paris, The Universal Mind, 1978.
Joseph Sungolowski, The relationship Edmond Fleg - Andre Neher , Tsafon 46, Fall 2003-Winter 2004, pp. 149-157