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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
Friday, September 15 1944
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LEOPOLD ZUNZ, PIONEER • • •
The history of the develop- that of the opening of a new
ment of a new field of science area for settlement. First there
or scholarship is very similar to come the explorers, who make
their way into new territory
and reveal its p..,ssibilities to the
world. Then come the pioneers,
who make the land accessible by
cutting new roads, by planning
the future development of the
region, and by organizing the
first simple government. Finally,
there come the builders who, fol-
lowing in the footsteps of the
pioneers, develop all the re-
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Baking
Creative Trail-Breaker of Science of Judaism, Born 150 Years Ago, of unflinching principl!' • he
than once faced poverty by 11°n.
Paved Way for Progressive Jewish Thought
i found
g n-
ing up positions when 'he
the views of those in authority
By RABBI SIMON COHEN
contrary to his own. lie twice
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Research Editor, Universal Jewish Encyclopedia
t h ie te l d Rrabbinical
eform temp position.
po l s e i ti a in , , once fo l
ce
ini
(Reprinted from Liberal Judaism)
at Berlin r
three years, and
sources of the newly opened dis- at an early age and was educat- nlensdsintghaenondaitiyoenasr,tneomnigne for
trict and little by little bring it ed in what was practically an
i n c om ach eats‘-'
up to the level of older and more orphan asylum at Wolfenbuttel, his spirit. It is small patible
wonde r
settled areas. the Samsonschule. Though at that he was described as
Leopold Zunz, who was born first this was little more than of few friends, unsmiling a man
and
150 years ago (in Detmold, Lip- the traditional Chede•, in 1807 severe, and often sarcastic in
pe, Germany, Aug. 10, 1794) it came under the modernizing speech, an uncompromising70fitghhatt-.
fight-
was such a pioneer in the new influence of Samuel Mayer Ehr- er against those
field of the Wissenschaft des Ju- enburg, who later modestly de- with him on communit disagreed
y policy.
dentums (Science of Judaism). scribed himself to Zunz as "the
ewnad ss not until
In the course of his long life (he little light at which your greater f riends gathered a fund that
en-
died in Berlin, March 17, 1880) light was kindled." After hav- abled him to live with comfort
he witnessed the evolusion of ing been the first Jewish boy to forThtrhoengrehst of
modern Jewish studies from their be graduated from the local Gym-
all this
Of hard.
earliest beginnings to a full and nasium, and after studying at
Zunz woafs pro in g which e
rich development, to which he the Universities of Berlin and great works
scho lars hip
contributed abundantly; so thor- Halle, at which latter institution won
n him fame and which not
roeia)t
ough was his own achievement he won his doctor's degree in only served as an inspiration to
that his works, despite later dis- 1821, Zunz entered upon the his successors but also helped
coveries, are still an indispens- more difficult task of earning a elevate the Jews of Germany
able source of reference on hun- livelihood.
from their former lowly position.
He supported himself from
dreds of subjects.
This inspiration and elevation
Zunz's life was by no means time to time by acting as teach- were badly needed, for the spirit-
an easy one. He was orphaned er in Jewish schools or as pri- ual state of the contemporary
vate tutor; he was for a time Jews of Germany was at a low
on the staff of a periodical and ebb. For centuries Jewish life
for two periods director of one had been stagnant there, preserv-
or another of the schools of the ing the old forms without creat-
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Berlin Jewish community. A man ing a new spirit. Most of the
rabbis had been imported from
countries farther east and tradi-
tionalism reigned supreme. Tal-
mudic study had degenerated in-
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A HAPPY NEW YEAR
forms. Confronted with the new
to the JEWISH COMMUNITY
spirit of rationalism in European
thought, the Jews of Germany
had no understanding of their
own religion that would make
SAM BLENDER
them cling to it as a "tree of
life." Instead they tended to
adopt the verdict of their Chris-
tian neighbors; that their own
way of life was antiquated, sup-
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zation."
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