Joseph Klausner
Yosef or Joseph Gedaliah Gedaliah Klausner Klauzner ( ) was a Jewish scholar (born in 1874 in Olkeniki, Lithuania, died in Jerusalem in 1958) who emigrated to Palestine in 1919 at the time of British mandate. He was an intellectual, a specialist in religion, historian and critic of the new language literature Hebrew. He is the editor of the Hebrew Encyclopedia, and teaches Hebrew literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Yosef Klauzner, protagonist influential movement Zionist , participates in several Zionist Congresses. He wrote dozens of books and articles, and numerous reports of research it publishes.
Life
At the turn of the century his family left Lithuania when anti-Semitism continued to grow to Odessa. Klausner, who had devoted Zionist personally acquainted with Theodor Herzl , where he received still young a professorship of Hebrew literature. In 1919 he emigrated to Palestine and received at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem professor of Hebrew literature and beyond that which was for research on the history of the Second Temple. According to his nephew, Amos Oz , his private library contained 25,000 volumes.
He taught at the Hebrew University, who received first chair in modern Hebrew literature. Finally he was given the chair of Jewish history to which he had aspired since the beginning.
His house in Talpiot was largely destroyed during the Arab riots of 1929. To honor his merits the State of Israel edited a commemorative stamp representative in 1982. Moreover, as his nephew Amos Oz recounts in his autobiographical novel A Tale of Love and Darkness, the street where their house stood, was renamed in his honor Klausner Street. The famous Hebrew writer Shmuel Yosef Agnon , whose house was in the same street was reported that Amos Oz, bad relations with Klausner.
Works and Thought
Yosef Klausner was born in Lithuania in 1874. He grew up and studied in Odessa , where he attended the Zionist movement and the scientific and literary circles. Klauzner visits Palestine in 1912 for the first time, and moved there permanently in 1919. He teaches Jewish history at the seminary teachers from Jerusalem , and in 1925 , he became a professor at the University of Jerusalem.
Although not officially an Orthodox Jew in terms of adherence to traditional orthodox thinking, not least the fact observed some Jewish traditions such as the Sabbath and kashrut. He had a vast knowledge of the Talmud and midrashic literature.
He passed his doctorate in Germany and wrote about Jesus of Nazareth a book that was so rich in information found by Herbert Danby, an Anglican priest, that he translated it from Hebrew into English so that English scholars might benefit from its information. He gained fame by the book Jesus of Nazareth and follow Jesus to Paul. He argued that Jesus was a reformer who died as a Jew Jew convinced that view was vigorously contested as the Christian side that the Jewish side. A number of clergymen were so outraged that Danby had translated this controversial work that they asked that he be recalled to Jerusalem. Klausner has always maintained that it was looking at Jesus as a Jew and a Jewish non-conformist they understood best. Klausner said of Ahad Ha'am 's edition HaMe'assef.
It was not an Orthodox Jew, but rather liberal and Zionist national passion. In 1949 he was Conservative candidate for the presidency of Israel. He had several controversies with Chaim Weizmann, who eventually became the first president of Israel.
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