Word: lissa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Place Is Here." Leo Baeck never tried to be anything but a scholar like his father and a good rabbi. Born at Lissa, Posen, which was then part of Germany, he studied at Breslau and Berlin and in 1905 wrote a book, The Essence of Judaism, which is still being studied and translated into the world's languages. He served as a chaplain in the German army in World War I, then settled down in Berlin to write and tend his flock...