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He was born on July 25, 1925 in Berlin and died November 12, 1991 in Cincinnati. His father, Samuel Meir Sigmund Petuchowski, died in 1928 and his mother was murdered in the Holocaust.
(This reprint of a classic work by scholar and theologian ...)
This reprint of a classic work by scholar and theologian Jakob Petuchowski contends that theology has a greater affinity to poetry than to the sciences. Petuchowski points out that unconventional theological views were often expressed in poetic form and such poetry was frequently incorporated into the traditional liturgy of the Synagogues. In Theology and Poetry, Petuchowski provides the texts, English translations, and commentaries on a number of theological poems (piyyutim) written from the sixth through the fourteenth centuries in Palestine, Spain, France, Germany, and Italy. The themes of the poems range from the problem of speaking about God to confronting adversity, the concept of man, Revelation, and the messianic hope. Petuchowski introduces each poem with a survey of Jewish thought on the poem's particular theme. Petuchowski shows Rabbinic literature to be a vast storehouse of different, often conflicting theoretical positions, with no attempt made to achieve doctrinal uniformity. Theology and Poetry will interest scholars and students of medieval studies, poetry, and Jewish liturgy.
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Rabbi university professor Judaic scholar
He was born on July 25, 1925 in Berlin and died November 12, 1991 in Cincinnati. His father, Samuel Meir Sigmund Petuchowski, died in 1928 and his mother was murdered in the Holocaust.
Petuchowski was brought up as an Orthodox Jew in Berlin and left Germany in May 1939 for Scotland on the Kindertransport. His father, Samuel Meir Sigmund Petuchowski, died in 1928 and his mother was murdered in the Holocaust.
Aged just 16, and having had only a year"s instruction in English before leaving Berlin, he became a rabbinical student at the Glasgow Rabbinical College. While studying for a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree in Psychology, which he received from the in 1947, he continued Jewish studies privately, receiving tuition from Rabbis Leo Baeck and Arthur Löwenstamm among others
In 1948 he became a rabbinical student at Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati.
He received a master"s degree in 1952 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1956.
Rabbi, Beth Israel, Washington, Pennsylvania, 1955-1956;
assistant professor Rabbinics, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute Religion, Cincinnati, 1956-1959;
associate professor, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute Religion, Cincinnati, 1959-1963;
professor, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute Religion, Cincinnati, 1963-1965;
professor Rabbinics and theology, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute Religion, Cincinnati, 1965-1974;
research professor Jewish theology and liturgy, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute Religion, Cincinnati, 1974-1991;
Sol and Arlene Bronstein professor Judaeo-Christian studies, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute Religion, Cincinnati, 1981-1991. Visiting professor philosophy Judaeo-Christian studies, 1981-1991. Visiting professor philosophy, religion Antioch College, Ohio, 1961.
Visiting professor Jewish philosophy Te.-Aviv U., 1971, visiting professor Judaic studies Harvard University Division School, 1985. Visiting professor Arizona State University, 1990. Director Jewish studies Hebrew Union College, Jerusalem, 1963-1964.
Rabbi Temple B'nai Israel, Laredo, texas, part-time, 1956-1991.
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Fellow American Academy for Jewish Research. Member Association Jewish Studies.
Married Elizabeth Rita Mayer, November 28, 1946. Children— Samuel Judah, Aaron Mark, Jonathan Mayer.