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Uriel Zimmer
Uriel Zimmer (December 1, 1920 – December 17, 1961) was an Ultra-Orthodox thinker. Worked as a translator at the UN and chabad hasidism[1]. Known as a fierce opponent of Zionism. He authored the booklet "Torah Judaism and the State".
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Born to Abraham and Gittel Zimmer in Vienna, Austria. In December 1934,some time after the Nazis came to power in Germany, he immigrated with his parents to Eretz Israel and the family settled in Haifa, where he attended the Reali School. After that, when his parents moved to Tel Aviv, he continued his studies at the Herzliya Gymnasium. His classmate was Moshe Shamir. In his youth he was characterized by rapid transitions from ideology to ideology. First he was an avid Marxist, and then becamean avid Zionist, first asa politicalist and then asa practical .
Zimmer studied Orientalism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and at the same time studied languages himself. He lived near the Mea Shearim neighborhood,and following his interest in the ultra-Orthodox and zealous circles, he became an avid Haredi. He initially belonged to the Agudat Yisrael party, and later became an extremist opponentof Zionism and the State of Israel.
In2012, he married Reisel to the Family of Isa, one of Tehran's children. After their wedding, they lived in the ShaareI Hesed neighborhood of Jerusalem.
In the late 1940s he edited the daily newspaper The Diary. He later joined The Faji and edited the movement's journal, TheVoice. In 2012, he needed medical treatmentin the United States and traveled there with his wife. When he arrived in New York, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneersohn,the Rebbe of Chabad, entered.[2] For a four-hour meeting ("units"). The Rebbe called on him to take advantage of his writing talents. Zimmer translated into different languages the "general letters" written by the Rebbe to all Jews in the world before holidays.
In the year 1999 he wrote, on the orders of the Rebbe[3], under the pseudonym "A. Gitlin", the booklet "Judaism of the Torah and the State", containing his position regarding Zionism and the state. Zimmer served as the first editor of Da'ar Id, aYiddish weekly later bought by Satmar Hasidism.
In his final years, Zimmer worked as a translator, both for the United Nations and for Chabad. Was friendly with U.N. Secretary-General Trigua Lee. Another secretary general of the organization, Doug Marshald, told him that he was a "complete UN", because of the many languages he controlled.
Zimmer lived inWilliamsburg, Brooklyn, New York. He died in London after a long illness, in 1961.)[4]. He left no offspring. His wife remarried to Rabbi Yitzhak Tobeya Weiss,a dayan inAntwerp, and then the Ultra-Orthodox Community in Jerusalem.
In 1964, the "Uriel Neighborhood" was established in his name near the Sanhedria neighborhood of Jerusalem[5] And in 1973, a street in Jerusalem was named after him.
Books[ EditSource Code| Edit]
- A. Gitlin [=Uriel Zimmer], Torah Judaism and the State: A conceptual inquiry into the treatment of Zionism and the state, with some historical chapters from the near past, Brooklyn – Jerusalem: The Sound System, 1999.
Its Translations[ EditSource Code| Edit]
- Translation of Yiddish of the Book of Tanya, Brooklyn 1958-1968
- Written by Rabbi Hirsch:Selected Writings; Translated by Uriel Zimmer, Jerusalem: Sappara, 1988 (written by RabbiHirsch)on the HebrewBooks website)
- N. [Give] Birnbaum,with the name; Translated from German: Uriel Zimmer, Tel Aviv: Eternity ("All Writings of Nathan Birnbaum"), 1988, withthename, on the HebrewBooks website )
External Links[Edit Source Code | Edit]
- Uriel Zimmer's list of publications in the National Library catalogue
- Died A. Zimmer, Ma'ariv, November 19, 1961
- Uriel Zimmer , Herut, November20, 1961
- Calls from Ariv | "The Voice" Shendam, Ma'ariv, Columns 2-3, November 10, 1966
- R. Uriel Z"l, Face to Face, 16in Besslo 5722, at the Sturam site
- Yisrael Aryeh Liv Laufer(ed.), HasidicTolls: Letters from Rabbi Uriel Zimmer to Rabbi Tevya Belevy,Kfar Chabad, 2004.
From the fruit of his pen:
- Torah and State Jewry (1999), on the Opinion website
Footnotes[Edit Source Code | Edit]
- ^ From There Is a Lot to Be Read Between the Lines,on the Chabad website: "Uriel Zimmer was the U.N. correspondent for several newspapers, and at one point served as an official translator there."
- ^ Prior to that, he participated occasionallyin classes at Tanya and the conferences at the Chabad synagogue in Jerusalem.
- ^ A. "Kfar Chabad Issue 169 2005; Rabbi Shalom Duber Wolfa, Between Light and Darkness, pp. 13-14
- ^ His tombstone reads: "P.N. Uriel B.R. Avraham N.Y. to the Zimmer family many were his talents and all worked for the pure faith Bar Orian and a kind man loved the truth and respected parents and teachers engaged in devotion to spreading the springs of Hasidism crossing, Hasid 23: Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneersahn of Lubavitz, 9: 2012 (the day of the loop of 2013, Dov Be'er Zatzkila, 1777) T. 12:25
- ^ Map and | cornerstone, Daff, March4, 1964; Jerusalem: Uriel Zimmer Housing, Herut, March4, 1964; Ultra-Orthodox Jerusalem in Benina: "Statlaach" in Jerusalem, Beit Yaakov 71 (Year 6, File G) (Nissan 5755), 31, hebrewBookswebsite.
They would ask him why the Rebbe who was against the Zionist ideology, did not take a public stand against Zionism. At a Yud Tes Kislev Farbrengen, the Rebbe instructed many chassidim to say L’chaim. Then he turned to Reb Uriel and said, “Horav Uriel is probably now thinking, why I don’t speak about the topic which he holds that I need to speak about. Let him say L’chaim and rinse this down.” “When I reached the Rebbe he told me, ‘I wanted to speak about it, but they don’t allow me.’
