Yosef Klausner

Yossef Gedaliah Klauzner or Joseph Gedaliah Klausner (יוסףקלוזנר) was a Jewish scholar (born in 1874 in Olkeniki, in Lithuania, died in Jerusalem in 1958) who emigrated in Palestine in 1919 at the time of the British mandate. He was an intellectual, specialist in the religion, historian and critical of the new literature of Hebraic language . He is the editor association of the Encyclopédie in Hébreu, and teaches the Hebrew literature with the Hebraic Université of Jerusalem. Yossef Klauzner, protagonist influential of the movement Zionist, takes part in several Congrès Zionist S. It writes tens of works and articles, as well as many reports of research, which it publishes.

Life

With the turning of the century its family left Lithuania where the anti-semitism did not cease growing to be established in Odessa. Klausner, Zionist convinced who had made personally knowledge with Theodor Herzl, still accepted any young person there a pulpit of Hebraic professor of literature. In 1919 he emigrated in Palestine and accepted at the Hebraic university of Jerusalem the Hebraic pulpit of literature and thereafter that which related to research on the history of the second temple. With saying of its great nephew, Amos Oz, her library private contained 25.000 volumes.

He taught at the Hebraic University, having received a pulpit in modern Hebraic literature initially. Finally one gave him the pulpit of Jewish history to which he had aspired since the beginning.

Its house with Talpiot was mainly destroyed at the time of the Arab revolts of 1929. To honor its merits the State of Israel published a commemorative stamp the representative in 1982. Moreover, as its Amos Oz great nephew tells it in his autobiographical novel a history of love and darkness , the street in which its house was, was renamed in its honor street Klausner. The famous Hebraic writer Samuel Joseph Agnon, whose house was in the same street, was, so that Amos Oz pays, in bad relations with Klausner.

Work and thought

Yossef Klauzner is born in Lithuania in 1874. It grows and studies with Odessa, where it attends the movements Zionists and the circles scientific and literary. Klauzner visits the Palestine in 1912 for the first time, and in 1919 settles definitively there. It teaches there the history of the Jewish people to the seminar of the teachers of Jerusalem, and in 1925, it enters as professor to the University of Jerusalem.

Although not being officially an orthodoxe Jew in term of adhesion to the traditional orthodoxe thought, it did not observe of them certain Jewish traditions like the Sabbath and the cacheroute. It had a vast knowledge of Talmud and midrachic literature.

It passed its doctorate to Germany and wrote on Jesus de Nazareth a book which was found so rich information by Herbert Danby, a priest Anglican, whom this last translated it of Hebrew into English so that the English scholars could benefit from its information. It acquired the celebrity by this book Jésus of Nazareth and the continuation De Jesus in Paul. It supported that Jesus would have been a Jewish reformer who would have died like convinced Jew, this point of view was highly attacked as well Christian side as Jewish side. A certain number of men of the church if were scandalized that Danby had to represent this discussed work which they asked that one recalls it of Jerusalem. Klausner always supported that it was by looking at Jesus like a Jew and a nonconformist Jew that it best was included/understood. Klausner took again of Ahad Ha' amndt the edition of HaMe' assef and was also candidate with the presidency of Israel in 1949.

It was not Jewish orthodoxe, but rather liberal and impassioned national Zionist. It published HaMeassef>> of Ahad Ha' amndt and was candidate of the conservatives for the presidency of Israel. With Chaim Weizmann, it had several controversies, which became finally first president d' Israël.

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