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Ernst Akiba/Akiva Simon ( he, עקיבא ארְנְסְט סימון; March 15, 1900 in Berlin – August 18, 1988 in Jerusalem) was a German-Jewish educator and religious philosopher.
In 1967, Simon was awarded the
Kurzinformation des Moses-Mendelssohn-Zentrum der Universität Potsdam
* Ephraim Chamiel, Between Religion and Reason - The Dialectical Position in Contemporary Jewish Thought, Academic Studies Press, Boston 2020, part I, pp. 98-107. 20th-century German educators Israeli people of German-Jewish descent 20th-century Israeli philosophers Philosophers of Judaism Zionists Israel Prize in education recipients 1899 births 1988 deaths German emigrants to Mandatory Palestine Burials at Har HaMenuchot {{Israel-academic-bio-stub
Ernst Akiba/Akiva Simon ( he, עקיבא ארְנְסְט סימון; March 15, 1900 in Berlin – August 18, 1988 in Jerusalem) was a German-Jewish educator and religious philosopher.
Biography
In the 1920s, Ernst Simon co-founded Brit Shalom along with Martin Buber, an organization espousing abinational solution
The one-state solution, sometimes also called a bi-national state, is a proposed approach to resolving the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, according to which one state must be established between the River Jordan and the Mediterranean. Proponen ...
for promoting the co-existence of Jews and Arabs in the State of Israel
Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...
. From 1930 to 1933 he taught at the Hebrew Reali School Haifa, headed by Arthur Biram. In 1942, he was one of the founders of the binationalist Ihud party.
Published works
* ''Aufbau im Untergang. Jüdische Erwachsenenbildung im nationalsozialistischen Deutschland als geistiger Widerstand''. Tübingen: Mohr 1959. (Schriftenreihe wissenschaftlicher Abhandlungen des Leo Baeck 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
The Israel Prize ( he, פרס ישראל; ''pras israél'') is an award bestowed by the State of Israel, and regarded as the state's highest cultural honor.
History
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, for education.
See also
*List of Israel Prize recipients
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List
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References
Further reading
* Rudolf Lennert: ''Über das Leben der deutschen Sprache in Jerusalem''. In: ''Neue Sammlung''. Göttingen. Bd. 6 (1966) S. 617-627 (über Ernst Simon, Ludwig Strauss and Werner Kraft). * Jan Woppowa in: ''Biographisch-bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon''. Begr. und hrsg. von Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz. Fortgef. von raugott Bautz Bd. 21 (2003) Sp. 1439–1446. *Kurzinformation des Moses-Mendelssohn-Zentrum der Universität Potsdam
* Ephraim Chamiel, Between Religion and Reason - The Dialectical Position in Contemporary Jewish Thought, Academic Studies Press, Boston 2020, part I, pp. 98-107. 20th-century German educators Israeli people of German-Jewish descent 20th-century Israeli philosophers Philosophers of Judaism Zionists Israel Prize in education recipients 1899 births 1988 deaths German emigrants to Mandatory Palestine Burials at Har HaMenuchot {{Israel-academic-bio-stub