Jakob Josef Petuchowski [SEP] place of death
Jakob Josef Petuchowski
Jakob Josef Petuchowski (1925 – 1991) was an American research professor of Jewish Theology and Liturgy and professor of Judeo-Christian Studies at the Jewish Institute of Religion at Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, Ohio. He was born on July 25, 1925 in Berlin and died November 12, 1991 in Cincinnati.
Education.
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
Schulbuchforschung, Braunschweig" : Georg-Eckert-Institut, 1992.)
He focussed on the confusion between cultural habits and religious rules. Among others, he writes that it is incorrect to state that the headscarf is a religious obligation.
Bibliography.
- "Three Ways to One God", with Elizabeth Petuchowski and Jakob Josef Petuchowski
- "We believe in one god : the experience of God in Christianity and Islam", with Annemarie Schimmel; Burns and Oates, London, 1979.
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