Schalom (Fritz) Franz Ben-Chorin

Shalom Ben-Chorin ( Hebrew שלום בן-חורין , born on 20 July 1913 in Munich , died on 7 May 1999 in Jerusalem ; native Fritz Rosenthal ) was a German-Israeli journalist and scholar of religion . Ben-Chorin sat down especially for the Christian-Jewish dialogue , overcoming the anti-Judaism and anti-Semitism and for the possibility of a theology after Auschwitz one. Its name translates as peace, Son of Liberty .

Ben-Chorin came from an educated acculturated Jewish merchant family. After graduating from the Luitpold-Gymnasium Munich, he studied from 1931 to 1934 German Studies and Comparative Religion at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich . 1935 emigrated he claimed Palestine . From 1935 to 1970 he was a journalist. He founded in 1958 the first Jewish Reform congregation of Israel in Jerusalem (Har El municipality) and was co-founder in 1961 of the Association of Jews and Christians in the German Evangelical Church . 1970 to 1987 he was a lecturer and visiting professor in Jerusalem, Tübingen and Munich. As in 1975, the Association of German writer Israel merged (VDSI), he belonged to the fifteen-member founding committee.

For his theological and literary merits, he received many honors, including the Leo Baeck Prize (1959), the German Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class (1969), the first Dr. Leopold Lucas Prize (1975), the Buber-Rosenzweig Medal (1982), the Federal Cross of Merit (1983), the Bavarian Order of Merit (1986), the title of professor of the State of Baden-Württemberg (1986), the Gold Medal of the citizens of the City of Munich (1988), the Federal Cross of Merit with star (1993), as well as honorary doctorates from the Universities of Munich (1988) and Bonn (1993).

His son Tovia Ben-Chorin (born 1936 in Jerusalem) is a liberal rabbi and held office since 2009 in the Jewish Community of Berlin. Previously, he was the rabbi of the congregation Or Hadash in Zurich.

cf.: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schalom_Ben-Chorin https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/שלום_בן-חורין