Sammy Gronemann ( Strasburg, Westpreußen, 21 March 1875 – Tel Aviv, 6 March 1952) was a German-born Zionist activist, author and satirist.

Biography

Samuel (Sammy) Gronemann was the son of the chief rabbi of Hannover. Gronemann was the chief judge of the Zionist Congress Court and founder of its Court of Honour (1921–1946). He was a major contributor to the satirical magazine ''Schlemiel'' published in 1903–1905 and 1919–1924. In 1933, after the rise of the Nazis, he fled to Paris with his wife, Sonja and immigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1936. In 1937, the

Jewish National Fund Jewish National Fund ( he, קֶרֶן קַיֶּימֶת לְיִשְׂרָאֵל, ''Keren Kayemet LeYisrael'', previously , ''Ha Fund HaLeumi'') was founded in 1901 to buy and develop land in Ottoman Syria (later Mandatory Palestine, and subseq ...

sent him to France to speak about the plight of the Jews in Palestine thanks to his knowledge of French and French culture.Sammy Gronemann's Lessing
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Published works

* ''Tohuwabohu''. 1920 novel *''Hawdoloh und Zapfenstreich''. 1924 novel *''Hamans Flucht''. Vienna, R. Löwit, 1926. *''Schalet. Beiträge zur Philosophie des „Wenn schon“''. 1927 *''Der Weise und der Narr'': with an introduction by Margot Klausner . Tel-Aviv: Moadim, Palestinian Play Publishers, 1942. *''Der Prozess um des Esels Schatten''. Tel-Aviv: Moadim, Palestinian Play Publishers, 1945. *''Erinnerungen''. Berlin: Philo, 2002. *''Erinnerungen an meine Jahre in Berlin''. Berlin: Philo, 2004.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gronemann, Sammy 1875 births 1952 deaths Israeli people of German-Jewish descent Burials at Nahalat Yitzhak Cemetery People from Brodnica County