–publishes The essence of Judaism
Britannica –
“Reform rabbi and theologian, the spiritual leader of German Jewry during the Nazi period, and the leading liberal Jewish religious thinker of his time. His magnum opus, The Essence of Judaism, appeared in 1905. His final work, This People Israel: The Meaning of Jewish Existence (1955), was written in part while Baeck was in a Nazi concentration camp…
Baeck’s masterwork masterpiece, The Essence of Judaism (1905), establishes him as a leading liberal Jewish theologian.”
Encyclopaedia Britannica Online (accessed January 7, 2009)
Born May 23, 1873, Lissa, then in Germany, now Poland; died Nov. 2, 1956, London