Andre Neher

Andre Neher (1914 - 1988), Rabbi, writer and Jewish philosopher French was one of the leaders of the school of Jewish Pensée of Paris and, for this reason, one of the principal craftsmen of the revival of the Judaism in France after the Shoah.

Biographical summary

André Neher is born in 1914 with Strasbourg which becomes again French in 1918. Its education develops in him a great love of France. As of the 22 years age, he teaches the German with the college of Sarrebourg and continuous in parallel to study the Judaism in particular with the Yechiva of Montreux.

He is mobilized in 1939 and after the rout joined its family taken refuge with Brive the Strapping woman where he takes again teaching before being named with Lanteuil. But on December 2nd, 1940, it is driven out teaching from the Statut of the Jews issued by the Vichy government. It is particularly sensitive to the indifference of his teaching colleagues to this injustice. It is what will lead it after the war to give up its studies of the German literature to turn to the Judaism and the Jewish literature.

He marries in 1947 Renee Bernheim with whom he will cosignera several works. In 1955, it is named professor of Jewish literature at the University of Strasbourg and obtains the teaching of Hebrew like living language by the French university. In 1962, it publishes with his wife “the Biblical story of the people of Israel” then “the Well of the exile”. After the six day old war, he emigrates in Israel, with Jerusalem. This emigration, one of the first by a French Jewish intellectual of reputation, is felt very highly in France as in Israel because it constitutes to some extent an answer to the remarks of the de Gaulle general qualifying the people Jewish of “people of elite, sure of itself and dominating”. It will teach there the Jewish thought with the Université of Tel Aviv.

Quotation

" the risk ":

(...) By creating the free man, God introduced into the universe a radical factor of uncertainty, that no divine Wisdom or divinatoire, that no mathematics, that no prayer even, can neither provide, neither to prevent, nor to integrate in a preestablished movement: the free man, it is the made improvisation flesh and history, it is the unforeseeable absolute, it is the limit which come to run up the direct forces of the creative plan, without no one not being able to say by advance if this limit will agree to be let cross or if, by the power of the stopping that she opposes to them, she will not oblige these creative forces to turn back endangering, by this recoil, the creative plan in its ensemble."

" Let us make the man! " It is the big challenge launched by God with his own being, that It limits while deciding to introduce into creation a creature which is libre".
in " Faust and the Maharal of Prague: the myth and the réél" , PUF

Works

Transcendence and immanence (1946);
Amos, contribution to the study of prophecy (1950), ED.: Vrin, 2000, ISBN 2711605884;
Gasoline of Prophecy (1955);
" Prophets and prophecies, ED.: Payot-pocket, 2004, ISBN 2228898341
Notes on Qohélet. (the Ecclésiaste) " , (1951), ED.: Midnight, 1999, ISBN 2707314889;

Brace and the Jewish vocation (1956), ED.: Threshold-pocket, 2004, ISBN 2020638738

Jérémie (1960);

Biblical story of the people of Israel (1962);

the Jewish Existence (1962);

" Faust and the Maharal of Prague: The Myth and Réel" , ED.: University presses of France, 1987, ISBN 2130397778

the Well of the Exile, the dialectical theology of the Maharal of Prague (1962);

" David Gans, 1541-1613: Disciple of Maharal, assistant of Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler, ED.: Klincksieck, 2000, coll: Publications of the Research center and Hebraic studies of the University of Strasbourg, Studies maharaliennes, ISBN 2252017236

with A.Epstein and Sebban: " Sparks. Translated rabbinical texts and commentés" , ED.: Albin Michel, 1970,

" The Exile of the word. Biblical silence with the silence of Auschwitz " , ED.: Threshold, 1970, ISBN 2020031604

" The identity juive" , ED.: Payot-pocket, 1994, ISBN 2228888117

" A link in the chaîne" , ED.: North, 1995, coll: Roots & models, ISBN 2859394761

References

External bonds

the biography of Andre Neher by Andre Chouraqui

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