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Simon, Akibah Ernst, 1899-1988 (Creator of the archive)
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Akibah Ernst Simon (1899-1988) was a Jewish educator, cofounder of Brit Shalom, co-editor of Der Jude, active in Free Jewish House of Learning in Berlin. He was close associate of Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig. He was a Zionist from 1918 and made Aliya in 1928. He returned to Center for Jewish Adult Education in Berlin 1934, then to Palestine in 1935. He was lecturer at Hebrew University (philosophy, history of education) from 1935, later head of School of Education and co-editor of correspondence of Buber and Rosenzweig. He was also co-founder of Leo Baeck Institute.

Reference Code
ARC. 4* 1751
Dates
1912-1988
Consists of
18 m..
Languages
German; Hebrew;
Description
הארכיון כולל תעודות אישיות, התכתבות וכתבים.;The archive includes correspondence, personal documents, & writings.
location
  • The Archives Collection of the National Library of Israel The Archives Collection of the National Library of Israel
Title Akibah Ernst Simon Archive.
Additional Titles כותרת בעברית: ארכיון עקיבא ארנסט סימון.
Citation Note ARC. 4* 1751, Ernst Akibah Simon archive, Archives Department, National Library of Israel, Jerusalem
Host Item Akibah Ernst Simon Archive.
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Biographical summary Ernst Akiba Simon was an Israeli educator, historian and philosopher of religion. He was born March 15 1899 in Berlin into a German Jewish family. During his school years he supported German nationalist ideas, volunteered 1914 as recruit for the war and, with other students his age, was released from the last school year to join the army. After being injured in Verdun and feeling rampant antisemitism in the army he abandonded his patriotic ideas. At the end of the war, during the November revolution he was a volunteer in the citizen guard. He studied history, philosophy and German langugage and literature in Berlin and later in Heidelberg. During his university years he was involved in the Zionist Jewish student movement. He received his PhD with a dissertation on Ranke and Hegel in 1923. 1926 he passed the state examination in German and began working as secondary school teacher in Frankfurt. As a close student of Franz Rosenzweig he was one of the founders and teachers of the Freie Jüdisches Lehrhaus in Frankfurt. He joined the writers for Martin Buber's Der Jude as editor between 1923 until 1928. Then he moved to Palestine with his wife Toni (Tonya Rapoport) and began teaching at Reali High School in Haifa. 1934 he returned to Germany for 6 months at the request of Martin Buber, and joined his work in adult education. Simon left Germany forever at the end of 1934, and returned to Jerusalem. He was invited by Ben Zion Dinur to serve as a teacher of Greek philosophy at the high school near the Hebrew University, and the Hebrew teachers' school. In both of these institutions he served as director for several periods. In 1939 he joined the faculty of the Hebrew University in the Department of Education as a lecturer in philosophy and history of education. In 1950 he received the appointment of an associate professor, in 1955 a full professorship and then to the director of the school of education. He served in this position until his retirement from teaching at the university in 1967. He was a founding member of Brit Shalom. 1955 he was one of the founders of the Leo Beck Institute and also co-editor of the אנציקלופדיה חינוכית. He spent much time as visiting professor at many universities in the world. Simon was awarded the Israel Prize in education in 1967, in 1969 he received the Buber-Rosenzweig prize in Frankfurt in recognition of his contribution to the Jewish-Christian dialogue. He died 1988 in Jerusalem.
Ownership history The archive was received from the creator's family.
Language Note The materials are mainly in German & Hebrew.
Credits Akibah Ernst Simon Archive, The National Library of Israel. Digitization and cataloguing of this fonds was funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG / German Research Foundation) under Germany's Excellence Strategy - EXC 2176 'Understanding Written Artefacts: Material, Interaction and Transmission in Manuscript Cultures', project no. 390893796. The research is conducted within the scope of the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) at Universität Hamburg.
National Library system number 990026380350205171
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Akibah Ernst Simon Archive, The National Library of Israel. Digitization and cataloguing of this fonds was funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG / German Research Foundation) under Germany's Excellence Strategy - EXC 2176 'Understanding Written Artefacts: Material, Interaction and Transmission in Manuscript Cultures', project no. 390893796. The research is conducted within the scope of the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) at Universität Hamburg.

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