33 Facts About Ezriel Carlebach

Ezriel Carlebach was a leading journalist and editorial writer during the period of Jewish settlement in Palestine and during the early days of the state of Israel.

Ezriel Carlebach was the first editor-in-chief of Israel's two largest newspapers, Yediot Ahronot, and then Ma'ariv.

Ezriel Carlebach was born in the city of Leipzig, Germany, descendant of a family of rabbis.

Ezriel Carlebach's parents were Gertrud Jakoby and Ephraim Carlebach, a rabbi and founder of Hohere Israelitische Schule in Leipzig.

Ezriel Carlebach recalled this time in two articles in the journal Menorah.

On his way for a visit in Germany, Ezriel Carlebach stopped in Warsaw, and visited Jozef Grawicki, who encouraged him to write for Haynt in Yiddish.

From 1929 Ezriel Carlebach lived in Germany and studied at the Frederick William University of Berlin and the University of Hamburg, receiving a degree as a doctor of law.

Ezriel Carlebach died of a heart attack on February 12,1956, at the age of 47.

When Haynt, stricken by a strike, asked for help, Ezriel Carlebach sent articles from Germany without payment.

Ezriel Carlebach sent regular reports to Haynt, which later became the basis for a book.

Ezriel Carlebach wrote a series of articles describing his travels through Germany, including an encounter with an anti-Semitic gang which left him severely beaten.

Ezriel Carlebach's novel is set in the Jewish quarter of Jerusalem's old city.

Ezriel Carlebach assessed the broad controversy on the subject being a journalistic success.

Ezriel Carlebach attributed the arrest to Goebbels, who resented Carlebach for revealing his Jewish connections.

Ezriel Carlebach was released from custody because no judicial warrant existed but was forced to go into hiding.

Ezriel Carlebach found people who provided him with a hideout and forged papers.

In concert with the Zionist Jehoszua Gottlieb, the folkist journalist Saul Stupnicki and others Ezriel Carlebach organised in Poland a countrywide series of lectures named Literary Judgments on Germany.

In 1933 and 1934 Ezriel Carlebach traveled for Haynt to report on the Zionist Congress, the International Congress of National Minorities and Goebbels' speech as German main delegate at the League of Nations in Geneva on September 29,1933.

Ezriel Carlebach's speech An Appeal to the Nations was an eclat and the subsequent press conference accordingly well attended.

Ezriel Carlebach reported how the Upper Silesian Franz Bernheim succeeded to prompt the League of Nations to coerce Germany to abide by the German-Polish Accord on East Silesia.

In 1935 Ezriel Carlebach was appointed chief editor of daily Yidishe Post in London.

In Selbstwehr Ezriel Carlebach published a regular column Tagebuch der Woche.

Ezriel Carlebach adopted an increasingly sharper tone in relation to non-Zionists, whose intentions to stay in Europe, he regarded negligent in view of the development.

In 1937 Ezriel Carlebach immigrated to Palestine under an appointment as foreign correspondent of Yidishe Post.

Ezriel Carlebach edited the Ma'ariv newspaper from its founding until his death in 1956.

Ezriel Carlebach is regarded as one of the great journalists of his period.

Ezriel Carlebach was a leader in the opposition to the opening of direct negotiations between Israel and Germany after the war, and the Reparations Agreement between Israel and West Germany.

In 1952 after president Chaim Weizmann's death Ezriel Carlebach suggested Albert Einstein in a telegram to become Israel's president.

Ezriel Carlebach played Strauss in Haifa, and afterwards in Tel Aviv as well.

Ezriel Carlebach was sympathetic towards conciliation between Jewish and Arab Israelis.

Ezriel Carlebach criticised, that after the verdict of Rudolf Kastner the Israeli government appealed the conviction literally overnight, unable to properly examine at all the substantial grounds for the judgment.

Ezriel Carlebach was driven to write the book by a powerful inner force, in a creative endeavour that was almost compulsive.

The Tel Aviv street where the offices of Ma'ariv are located was renamed after Ezriel Carlebach, as is the Tel Aviv Red Line large underground light rail station located nearby.