Baeck

British

/ bɛk /

noun

Leo . 1873–1956, German Jewish theologian: a leader of the German Jews during the Nazi period. His major work is The Essence of Judaism (1905)

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Ramer was “the epitome of integrity and grace,” said Rabbi Ken Chasen of Leo Baeck Temple in Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 3, 2024

She was ordained a rabbi at the Leo Baeck College in London and has friends and colleagues there who are supporting her.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 12, 2022

And one of the country’s most popular YouTube stars is Baeck Ha-na, an accountant by day whose channel champions being unmarried, and is called “Solo-darity.”

From Fox News • Jul. 25, 2019

Michael Simonson, 44, is the archivist at the Leo Baeck Institute in Manhattan, a research library on German Jewry.

From New York Times • Apr. 29, 2013

Religions of the world: their nature and their history, written in collaboration with Franz Babinger, Leo Baeck, Heinrich Haekmann and others.

From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1959 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

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