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aribRabbi Isaiah Wohlgemuth, one of my high school teachers, died on Sunday.
When I was in fifth or sixth grade, Rabbi and Mrs. Wohlgemuth were both honored by the school for fifty years of teaching (each!). He was a real presence in the school throughout his tenure their, and he would often tell us about his past, including his coming to the US (the synagogue he and his father administered was destroyed by the Nazis on Kristalnacht. Decades later, he was asked to come back to Berlin by the German government. He declined, but I think he visited regularly.)
By the time I made it to high school he was only teaching one class a week, a class on prayer including structure of the various services and individual prayers, as well as a Sabbath afternoons shiur (lecture) that I attended off and on throughout high school.
He was well into his eighties by the time I graduated, so he was probably pushing 100 by now.
The funeral's today in NJ, and burial will be in Israel tomorrow.
Not sure what else to say, so I'll just reflect for a bit.
When I was in fifth or sixth grade, Rabbi and Mrs. Wohlgemuth were both honored by the school for fifty years of teaching (each!). He was a real presence in the school throughout his tenure their, and he would often tell us about his past, including his coming to the US (the synagogue he and his father administered was destroyed by the Nazis on Kristalnacht. Decades later, he was asked to come back to Berlin by the German government. He declined, but I think he visited regularly.)
By the time I made it to high school he was only teaching one class a week, a class on prayer including structure of the various services and individual prayers, as well as a Sabbath afternoons shiur (lecture) that I attended off and on throughout high school.
He was well into his eighties by the time I graduated, so he was probably pushing 100 by now.
The funeral's today in NJ, and burial will be in Israel tomorrow.
Not sure what else to say, so I'll just reflect for a bit.
