Ernst Akiba/Akiva Simon ( he, עקיבא ארְנְסְט סימון; March 15, 1900 in
Berlin
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– August 18, 1988 in
Jerusalem
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) was a German-Jewish educator and religious philosopher.
Biography
In the 1920s, Ernst Simon co-founded Brit Shalom along with
Martin Buber
Martin Buber ( he, מרטין בובר; german: Martin Buber; yi, מארטין בובער; February 8, 1878 –
June 13, 1965) was an Austrian Jewish and Israeli philosopher best known for his philosophy of dialogue, a form of existentialism c ...
, an organization espousing a
binational solution
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for promoting the co-existence of Jews and
Arab
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s in the
State of Israel
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. From 1930 to 1933 he taught at the
Hebrew Reali School
, motto_translation = ''Walk Humbly''
, address = Hertzel 16
, city = Haifa
, zipcode = 3312103
, country = Israel
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, other_name ...
Haifa, headed by
Arthur Biram
Arthur Yitzhak Biram (Hebrew: ארתור בירם; August 13, 1878 – June 5, 1967) was a German–Israeli philosopher, philologist, and educator.
Biography
Biram was born in Bischofswerda in Saxony in 1878 and attended school in Hirsch ...
. In 1942, he was one of the founders of the binationalist
Ihud
Ihud ( he, איחוד, 'Unity') was a small binationalist Zionist political party founded by Judah Leon Magnes, Martin Buber, Ernst Simon and Henrietta Szold, former supporters of Brit Shalom, in 1942Mohr 1959. (Schriftenreihe wissenschaftlicher Abhandlungen des
Leo Baeck
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Institute of Jews from Germany. 2).
* ''Brücken. Gesammelte Aufsätze''. Heidelberg: Schneider 1965.
* ''Selbstdarstellung''. In: ''Pädagogik in Selbstdarstellungen''. Hamburg: Meiner, Bd. 1 (1975), S. 272–333.
* ''Entscheidung zum Judentum. Essays und Vorträge''. Frankfurt a.M.:
Suhrkamp Verlag
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In January 2010 the ...
1980. (Bibliothek Suhrkamp. 641).
* ''Sechzig Jahre gegen den Strom. Briefe von 1917-1984''. Hrsg. vom Leo-Baeck-Institut, Jerusalem. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 1998. (Schriftenreihe wissenschaftlicher Abhandlungen des Leo-Baeck-Instituts. 59).
Awards and recognition
In 1967, Simon was awarded the
Israel Prize
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History
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, for education.
See also
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List of Israel Prize recipients
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List
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