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same trip I would visit a concentration camp.
In that way I was able to make clear to myself
that I was going to a conference in a country
that must come to terms with its past.”
At the same time, Meyer does not hold the
younger scholars he meets responsible for
their nation’s history. “What is quite remark-
able is how many young Germans are going
into German-Jewish scholarship,” he notes.
“
In Germany, itself, the great irony is that
whereas when there was a large German-
Jewish community there were virtually no
Jewish studies at German universities, now
the major German universities almost all have
Jewish studies.” The Leo Baeck Institute’s
scholarly working group in Germany holds
doctoral colloquia for graduate students in
German-Jewish history. Over the last decade,
at least 150 graduate students have done doc-
toral work in this area. Nearly all of them are
non-Jewish Germans, an increasing number
of whom are now able to read Hebrew.
Furthermore, the Leo Baeck Institute is help-
ing with the publication of guidelines for the
teaching of German-Jewish history in
German schools.
Meyer chairs the Publications Committee of
the Hebrew Union College Press, is a fellow
and member of the American Academy for
Jewish Research, and a member of the
Advisory Committee of the Center for
Jewish History in New York. He loves
teaching and has advised about forty rab-
binical theses during his years at HUC-JIR.
As he looks ahead, Meyer offers the Reform
Movement a charge for the future: “The
Reform Movement is moving in the direction
of greater depth in religion and Jewish educa-
tion than in the past, but it needs to recapture
the awareness of broader Jewish destiny. It
needs to cope with new challenges, including
the large number of mixed couples in Reform
congregations who require a sense of Jewish
peoplehood. It also has to strengthen its rela-
tionship to Israel, which regrettably has
weakened since the 1970s. It is up to us on
the faculty at HUC-JIR to create a readiness
to meet these challenges among our students.”
Michael A. Meyer:
Four Decades at HUC-JIR
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