Werner van der Zyl [SEP] occupation
Werner van der Zyl
Rabbi Dr Werner van der Zyl (Schwerte, Germany, 11 September 1902 – Palma, Majorca, Spain, 10 April 1984) was a rabbi in Berlin and in London, where he came in 1939 as a refugee rabbi from Germany. He was the prime mover and first director of studies of the Jewish Theological College of London. The college was inaugurated in 1956 and was renamed Leo Baeck College shortly afterwards at his suggestion.
Career.
Van der Zyl, who was also a trained
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- Samuel Poznanski
- Solomon Schecter
- Shmaryahu Levin
- Manfred Swarsensky
- Werner van der Zyl
- Miriam Yalan-Shteklis (1900–84), writer and poet
- Selma Stern Historian, research fellow at the Akademie für die Wissenschaft des Judentums, founded at the Hochschule in 1919
- Arno Nadel
Further reading.
- Lehranstalt für die Wissenschaft des Judenthums: Rückblick auf die Ersten Fünfundzwanzig Jahre (1872–97), Berlin, 1897.
- Seidel, Esther (2002). "