Edmund Husserl was born in 1859 in the Austrian Empire into a family of non-orthodox Jews. He was the second child among three siblings who all studied at a secular primary school in Margraviate ...

Born in a German Jewish community in the Rhineland, Jonas' mentors included Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger and Rudolf Bultmann. The committed Zionist fled Germany in 1933 for Jerusalem, fought in ...