David Feuerwerker
| David Feuerwerker | |
|---|---|
| Born |
October 2, 1912 Geneva, Switzerland |
| Died | June 20, 1980 (aged 67) Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Resting place | Jerusalem, Israel |
| Nationality | France, Canada |
| Occupation | Rabbi, Historian |
| Spouse(s) | Antoinette Feuerwerker |
| Children | Atara, Natania, Elie, Hillel, Emmanuel, Benjamine |
| Parent(s) | Jacob Feuerwerker and Regina Neufeld |
David Feuerwerker (October 2, 1912 – June 20, 1980) was a French Jewish rabbi and professor of Jewish history who was effective in the resistance to German occupation the Second World War. He was completely unsuspected until six months before the war ended, when he fled to Switzerland and his wife and baby went underground in France. The French government cited him for his bravery with several awards. After the war, he and his wife re-established the Jewish community of Lyons. He settled in Paris, teaching at the Sorbonne. In 1966, he and his family, grown to six children, moved to Montreal, where he developed a department of Jewish studies at the University of Montreal.
He was born on October 2, 1912, at 11 Rue du Mont-Blanc, in Geneva, Switzerland. He was the seventh of eleven children. His father Jacob Feuerwerker was born in Sighet, now Sighetu Marmației, Maramureş, then Hungary, now Romania. His mother Regina Neufeld was born in Lackenbach, one of the famous seven Jewish communities or Sheva Kehillos (Siebengemeinden) in the Burgenland, Hungary, now Austria.
In 1925, he finished High School at the Rue Vauquelin Talmud Torah. In 1932, after his Baccalauréat in Sciences, Lettres et Philosophie, in Paris, he entered the French Rabbinical Seminary L'Ecole Rabbinique de France (Séminaire israélite de France, SIF)], from which he graduated as a Rabbi, on October 1, 1937. He became Diplomé de Langues Sémitiques anciennes (Sorbonne) as a specialist in Semitic languages. Among the languages he spoke were Aramaic and Syriac.
From October 15, 1937, until September 1, 1939, he served in the French Army, in Alsace. After World War II broke out, he remained in the Army until July 25, 1940. He was in charge of communications for a group of artillery of the 12th R.A.D. (Régiment d'Artillerie Divisionnaire) and chaplain of the 87th D.I.A. He was demobilized at Châteauroux on July 25, 1940.
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