Background
Liliane Ackermann was born on September 3, 1938, in Strasbourg, France, the daughter of Lucien Weil and Béatrice Haas.
writer community leader and lecturer
Liliane Ackermann was born on September 3, 1938, in Strasbourg, France, the daughter of Lucien Weil and Béatrice Haas.
After her Baccalauréat in 1956, she studied at the Faculty of Sciences at the Université Louis Pasteur of Strasbourg, where she obtained her first Doctor of Philosophy (in microbiology), in 1974. She later received a second Doctor of Philosophy, at the Université de Strasbourg (Humanities), in 1999.
During World World War II, her family took refuge in Voiron, Isère. They would remain there until 1956, when they moved back to Strasbourg. They had seven children (Théo, Jacqui, Anne, Raoul, Eric, Charles, and Marc).
Henri and Liliane Ackermann formed a team, for nearly half a century.
From 1956 to 2007, she taught in Strasbourg at the elementary and secondary levels but also to adults in Jewish education. She taught also to Russian immigrants in Germany.
In parallel, from 1976 to 1996, she gave lectures at the Louis Pasteur University in biochemistry and microbiology. Liliane and Henri Ackermann took charge in 1972 of the Youth Movement "Yeshurun", a national religious group active all year round, and with winter and summer camps.
A great number of Jewish leaders were formed there.
Among them, René Gutman, Chief Rabbi of the Bas-Rhin, Gilles Bernheim, Chief Rabbi of the Synagogue de la Rue de la Victoire in Paris, Chief Rabbi of France from January 1, 2009 to April 11, 2013, and many others On February 1, 2009, at his Inauguration as Chief Rabbi of France, Gilles Bernheim recalled in his speech Liliane Ackermann: "I want to express what I owe to the leaders of the youth movement Yechouroun from which I come. Liliane Ackermann got involved in reaching out to handicapped, women in distress, the elderly.
In Strasbourg, her home was the locale to find counseling, advice, encouragement, but also serious learning at all levels.
A rarity for a woman, anywhere, but particularly in France, she learned on her own the Babylonian Talmud, and went on to study, thereafter, the Jerusalem Talmud. Bibliography
A meeting with the President of France
Her death
At the age of 68, she died in Strasbourg, on February 3, 2007.