Jewish Judaica Antique C. Z. Klotzel EX LIBRIS Menorah German Author Book

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Jewish Judaica Antique C. Z. Klotzel EX LIBRIS Menorah German Author Book
Cheskel Zwi Klötzel, also Hans Klötzel (born February 8, 1891 in Berlin, died October 27, 1951 in Jerusalem) was a German journalist and children's book author.
Hans Klötzels father Hermann died early, and his mother Emilie moved with him and two younger children to Hamburg, where the children were housed in the German-Israeli orphanage. He attended the Talmud Tora Realschule and completed a commercial apprenticeship and training at the Jewish teacher training college. He got his first job as a German teacher at the girls' school of the Hilfsverein of German Jews in Thessaloniki. In 1920 he published his first travel book. Klötzel was a soldier in the First World War from 1915 to 1918.
In 1919, he married Annette Loewenthal (1888-1970), the sister of his comrade-in-arms, linguist John Loewenthal. They had the daughter Katherina (Cary), born in 1919.
After the war he published from 1919 to 1921, the bi-weekly youth magazine Bar Kochba and began to publish children's and youth books. In the illustrated youth book BC4ü - Experiences of a railway carriage, which deals with a express train wagon of the car class BC4ü, the reader is introduced to the up-to-the-minute world of railways. The book had its eighth edition in 1929; It was no longer used during the National Socialist era, but was not included in the list of banned books by Jewish authors. Klötzel was editor of the Zionistische Jüdische Rundschau from 1922 to 1929 and also wrote for the Berliner Tageblatt and the Vossische Zeitung. He made trips to Europe, Central Asia and South America, from which he wrote correspondent reports and published books, and drove in 1930 for the first time to Palestine. He wrote youth books that Jewish children should prepare for their immigration into the British Mandate Palestine under the (Alija Bet).
After the transfer of power to the National Socialists, he emigrated to Palestine; his brother Erich had already emigrated to Brazil in 1929, and his sister Margarethe succeeded in emigrating to the United States in 1937.
Klötzel was in Palestine for lack of knowledge of the Hebrew difficult, but he was integrated into Jewish society through participation in the underground organization Hagana. He worked as a Palestinian correspondent for the foreign press, including for the German -speaking construction in New York, and was editorial member of the English-speaking Palestine Post from October 1939 until his death in 1951.
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