Sammy Gronemann
Sammy Gronemann (Strasburg, Westpreußen, 21 March 1875 - Tel Aviv, 6 March 1952) was a Jewish German author who emigrated via Paris to Tel Aviv before WWII.
Gronemann, was the son of the chief rabbi of Hannover.[1] Gronemann became one of chief contributors to the satirical magazine Schlemiel (which ran 1903-1905, 1919-1924). He fled to Paris in 1933, and made his way to Tel Aviv in 1936, [2]
Selected 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. ISBN 3-86572-268-7
- Erinnerungen an meine Jahre in Berlin. Berlin: Philo, 2004. ISBN 3-82570-350-9
References
- ↑ Ruth Gutmann A Final Reckoning: A Hannover Family's Life and Death in the Shoah 2013 0817318097 "Sammy Gronemann was the son of Landrabbiner Selig Gronemann (1883–1918) of Lower Saxony. The Rabbinate of Lower Saxony had been established in 1687."
- ↑ Derek Penslar Israel in History: The Jewish State in Comparative Perspective 2007 1134146698 "One of Schlemiel's chief contributors, the genial Zionist humorist Sammy Gronemann, was the son of the chief rabbi of Hannover and had a thorough yeshiva education, but he did not make use of his Judaic knowledge in his writing, which, despite its paeans to the East European Jewish folk soul and its condemnation of assimila tion, was destined for an audience of highly acculturated readers "
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