4 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle Friday, September 15 1944 "I 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- New Year Greetings and Best Wishes to Le Shono Tovo Tikosevu A Happy New Year To All Our Friends Detroit Continental Jewry 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 l 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- GREETINGS 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- Le Shono Toro Tikoseru to hair-splitting argument, relig- ious services were mere external 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- Season's Greetings erstitious, uncouth and meaning- less, without any future in con- PENOBSCOT BLDG. temporary life. To many of them, Cadillac Square in Heine's words, "The old Jew- DETROIT ish belief was no religion at all, E. E. KIRSHNER, Mgr. but only a misfortune" and "the baptismal certificate was the tic- ket of entry to European civili- zation." 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