Michael A. Meyer is Adolph S. Ochs Professor of Jewish History at the Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, Ohio, and international president of the Leo Baeck Institute, devoted to the history and culture of German-speaking Jewry. He is author of Response to Modernity: A History of the Reform Movement in Judaism and co-editor (with Michael Brenner) of the four-volume German-Jewish History in Modern Times. He lives in Cincinnati, Ohio.

• ContentsPrefaceEditor's Introduction1. Childhood and YouthBurkhardsdorfOppelnStudies in Breslau and Berlin2. Rabbi in BerlinThe Weimar YearsThe Nazi Years3. Newark, New JerseyAppendix A. ChronologyAppendix B. Prinz's Speech at the Lincoln Memorial, August 28, 1963Appendix C. Books by Joachim PrinzIndex

A lucid and insightful introduction to the life of an influential and dynamic public figure. Recommended for libraries with Jewish studies collections.(Library Journal) Prinz's autobiography . . . enriches our understanding of the desperate but not yet hopeless life of German Jews in the German 1930s.(Forward) This is a work that should be in every large pubic, seminary, synagogue, and university collection.septermber/october 2008- Morton J. Merowitz (Association of Jewish Libraries Newsletter) [This] well-written and absorbing autobiography surpasses many scholarly monographs in providing an insightful portrayal of Jewish life in Germany between World War I and the early years of Nazi rule. Vol. LXI, no. 1 (2009)(American Jewish Archives Journal) Students of the German Jewish experience, the Holocaust, and American Jewish history, as well as rabbis and rabbinic students will all find Joachim Prinz, Rebellious Rabbi engaging and worthy of their consideration for many different reasons. October 2009(H-Net Reviews H-Judaic) Rabbi Dr. Joachim Prinz was a gifted raconteur, confident though not confessional, positive though not triumphant, engaging but serious. . . This is the first book on the life and career of Joachim Prinz. It is a great read.72 Winter/Spring 2010(Menorah Review) The recently published Joachim Prinz, Rebellious Rabbi, edited and superby introduced by noted historian Michael A. Meyer, is a remarkable historical document with literary merit. . . . Written by a successful, confident senior rabbi in his "anecdotage", it illuminates the public life and private world of a leading Jewish figure of the twentieth century with refreshing clarity and honesty.October 2009(H-Net Reviews)

Michael A. Meyer is Adolph S. Ochs Professor of Jewish History at the Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, Ohio, and international president of the Leo Baeck Institute, devoted to the history and culture of German-speaking Jewry. He is author of Response to Modernity: A History of the Reform Movement in Judaism and co-editor (with Michael Brenner) of the four-volume German-Jewish History in Modern Times. He lives in Cincinnati, Ohio.

• ContentsPrefaceEditor's Introduction1. Childhood and YouthBurkhardsdorfOppelnStudies in Breslau and Berlin2. Rabbi in BerlinThe Weimar YearsThe Nazi Years3. Newark, New JerseyAppendix A. ChronologyAppendix B. Prinz's Speech at the Lincoln Memorial, August 28, 1963Appendix C. Books by Joachim PrinzIndex

A lucid and insightful introduction to the life of an influential and dynamic public figure. Recommended for libraries with Jewish studies collections.(Library Journal) Prinz's autobiography . . . enriches our understanding of the desperate but not yet hopeless life of German Jews in the German 1930s.(Forward) This is a work that should be in every large pubic, seminary, synagogue, and university collection.septermber/october 2008- Morton J. Merowitz (Association of Jewish Libraries Newsletter) [This] well-written and absorbing autobiography surpasses many scholarly monographs in providing an insightful portrayal of Jewish life in Germany between World War I and the early years of Nazi rule. Vol. LXI, no. 1 (2009)(American Jewish Archives Journal) Students of the German Jewish experience, the Holocaust, and American Jewish history, as well as rabbis and rabbinic students will all find Joachim Prinz, Rebellious Rabbi engaging and worthy of their consideration for many different reasons. October 2009(H-Net Reviews H-Judaic) Rabbi Dr. Joachim Prinz was a gifted raconteur, confident though not confessional, positive though not triumphant, engaging but serious. . . This is the first book on the life and career of Joachim Prinz. It is a great read.72 Winter/Spring 2010(Menorah Review) The recently published Joachim Prinz, Rebellious Rabbi, edited and superby introduced by noted historian Michael A. Meyer, is a remarkable historical document with literary merit. . . . Written by a successful, confident senior rabbi in his "anecdotage", it illuminates the public life and private world of a leading Jewish figure of the twentieth century with refreshing clarity and honesty.October 2009(H-Net Reviews)

Michael A. Meyer is Adolph S. Ochs Professor of Jewish History at the Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, Ohio, and international president of the Leo Baeck Institute, devoted to the history and culture of German-speaking Jewry. He is author of Response to Modernity: A History of the Reform Movement in Judaism and co-editor (with Michael Brenner) of the four-volume German-Jewish History in Modern Times. He lives in Cincinnati, Ohio.

• ContentsPrefaceEditor's Introduction1. Childhood and YouthBurkhardsdorfOppelnStudies in Breslau and Berlin2. Rabbi in BerlinThe Weimar YearsThe Nazi Years3. Newark, New JerseyAppendix A. ChronologyAppendix B. Prinz's Speech at the Lincoln Memorial, August 28, 1963Appendix C. Books by Joachim PrinzIndex

A lucid and insightful introduction to the life of an influential and dynamic public figure. Recommended for libraries with Jewish studies collections.(Library Journal) Prinz's autobiography . . . enriches our understanding of the desperate but not yet hopeless life of German Jews in the German 1930s.(Forward) This is a work that should be in every large pubic, seminary, synagogue, and university collection.septermber/october 2008- Morton J. Merowitz (Association of Jewish Libraries Newsletter) [This] well-written and absorbing autobiography surpasses many scholarly monographs in providing an insightful portrayal of Jewish life in Germany between World War I and the early years of Nazi rule. Vol. LXI, no. 1 (2009)(American Jewish Archives Journal) Students of the German Jewish experience, the Holocaust, and American Jewish history, as well as rabbis and rabbinic students will all find Joachim Prinz, Rebellious Rabbi engaging and worthy of their consideration for many different reasons. October 2009(H-Net Reviews H-Judaic) Rabbi Dr. Joachim Prinz was a gifted raconteur, confident though not confessional, positive though not triumphant, engaging but serious. . . This is the first book on the life and career of Joachim Prinz. It is a great read.72 Winter/Spring 2010(Menorah Review) The recently published Joachim Prinz, Rebellious Rabbi, edited and superby introduced by noted historian Michael A. Meyer, is a remarkable historical document with literary merit. . . . Written by a successful, confident senior rabbi in his "anecdotage", it illuminates the public life and private world of a leading Jewish figure of the twentieth century with refreshing clarity and honesty.October 2009(H-Net Reviews)