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Sami Rohr
Sami Rohr (April 4, 1926 – August 5, 2012) was a German-born American real estate developer and philanthropist. Over his life, he donated at least $250 million to various Jewish causes, particularly the Chabad movement. Early life Sami Rohr was born on April 4, 1926, in Berlin, Germany. He was the only child Oskar and Perla Gelbard Rohr. His father was a real estate investor, once described as one of Berlin's "leading real estate men". Thirteen days after ''Kristallnacht'', the Nazi pogrom in November 1938 that terrorized Jews across Germany, the Rohr family fled Germany to Antwerp, Belgium. They then traveled through Lyon, France, to Switzerland. Rohr's parents were sent to a refugee camp in Morgins, and Sami went to a children's home near Basel. Most of the Rohrs' extended family were murdered in the Holocaust. After World War II, the Rohr's moved to Paris. Sami's father sent him to an aunt in Bogotá, Colombia, in 1950, fearing that the outbreak of the Korean War presaged ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sami Rohr Prize For Jewish Literature
The Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature is an annual prize awarded to an outstanding literary work of Jewish interest by an emerging writer. Previously administered by the Jewish Book Council, it is now given in association with the National Library of Israel. History In 2006, the family of Jewish philanthropist Sami Rohr honored his lifelong love of Jewish learning and great books by establishing the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature on his 80th birthday. At its inception, the $100,000 prize was the largest literary prize in North America. The second place winner receives the Jewish Literature Choice Award of $25,000. The annual award, first awarded in 2007, alternates between honoring fiction and non-fiction and seeks to promote writings of Jewish interest, and to encourage the examination of Jewish values among emerging writers. Awardees are honored at an August ceremony at the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem. The award was administered by the Jewish Book Coun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chabad Movement
Chabad, also known as Lubavitch, Habad and Chabad-Lubavitch (; ; ), is a dynasty in Hasidic Judaism. Belonging to the Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) branch of Orthodox Judaism, it is one of the world's best-known Hasidic movements, as well as one of the largest Jewish religious organizations. Unlike most Haredi groups, which are self-segregating, Chabad mainly operates in the wider world and caters to nonobservant Jews. Founded in 1775 by Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi (1745–1812) in the city of Liozno in the Russian Empire, the name "Chabad" () is an acronym formed from the three Hebrew words—Chokmah, Binah, Da'at— for the first three sefirot of the kabbalistic Tree of Life after Keter: , "Wisdom, Understanding, and Knowledge"—which represent the intellectual and kabbalistic underpinnings of the movement. The name Lubavitch derives from the town in which the now-dominant line of leaders resided from 1813 to 1915. Other, non-Lubavitch scions of Chabad either disappeared or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
