{"id":5508,"date":"2015-03-02T09:00:47","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T09:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/?p=5508"},"modified":"2025-06-09T09:57:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T09:57:01","slug":"author-of-jesus-reclaimed-earns-german-federal-decoration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/author-of-jesus-reclaimed-earns-german-federal-decoration","title":{"rendered":"Author of ‘Jesus Reclaimed’ Earns German Decoration"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The President of the Federal Republic of Germany, Joachim Gauck, honoured Rabbi Walter Homolka with the Officers Cross of the Federal Merit Order<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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On February 27, 2015, the Prime Minister of the State of Brandenburg, Dr. Dietmar Woidke, handed over the insignia in the state chancellery in Potsdam.<\/p>\n

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Woidke thanked Rabbi Homolka for the establishment of the Abraham Geiger\u00a0 College in 1999 as the first rabbinical school in Continental Europe after the Holocaust.
\nHomolka\u2019s initiative in 2013 also formed the School of Jewish Theology of the University of Potsdam, Germany\u2019s Jewish Divinity School. Rabbi Homolka is a professor of Modern Jewish Thought there.<\/p>\n

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On the day of the honour Germany\u2019s nationwide tabloid BILD voted Homolka \u201cwinner of the day.”<\/p>\n

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Rabbi Walter Homolka<\/strong> is author of Jewish Identity in Modern Times: Leo Baeck and German Protestantism<\/a> (1995) and Jesus Reclaimed: Jewish Perspectives on the Nazarene<\/a> (2015), and co-editor, with Albert Friedlander, of The Gate to Perfection: The Idea of Peace in Jewish Thought<\/a> (1994). He is the rector of the Abraham Geiger College, Germany\u2019s first rabbinical seminary after the Holocaust, and a professor of Modern Jewish Thought at the School of Jewish Theology of the University of Potsdam in Germany.<\/p>\n

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The President of the Federal Republic of Germany, Joachim Gauck, honoured Rabbi Walter Homolka with the Officers Cross of the Federal Merit Order.   On February 27, 2015, the Prime Minister of the State of Brandenburg, Dr. Dietmar Woidke, handed over the insignia in the state chancellery in Potsdam.   Woidke thanked Rabbi Homolka for… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":5510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,122,220,108],"tags":[111,101,224,121,109,2337,2336,155],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5508"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5508"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5522,"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5508\/revisions\/5522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}