| Popis: |
This excerpt from the autobiographical notes by Rabbi Dr. Jacob (Jakob) Sonderling (1878-1964), who worked in Hamburg between 1908 and 1922/23, provides insight into a life shaped by migration and the search for belonging. Those aspects in Sonderling’s transnational biography which are closely linked to his experience during World War I are given particular mention; not only did they intensify Sonderling’s repeated reflection on an adequate definition of Jewishness, they also influenced his decision to emigrate to the US in 1923. Sonderling drafted his planned autobiography “This is my Life” in Los Angeles between 1961 and 1964, it was only published in excerpts posthumously though. It is part of his personal papers [http://americanjewisharchives.org/collections/ms0582/] held at the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives in Cincinnati, Ohio. Some handwritten notes have been added by Sonderling to his autobiographical sketch and there are some subsequent corrections as well. |
