Word: posen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After Mamma's Boy, a Punch. In Hebrew, Baruch means blessed. Little Bernard was first blessed in his parents. His father Simon fled his native Posen (then in Germany) to escape conscription in 1855 and became a selfless country doctor in Camden, S.C. He served gallantly as a Confederate Army surgeon. Bernard's mother was a statuesque beauty with the pluck to forget that her father's fine plantation lay gutted behind Sherman's line of march. Of her four sons, "Bernie" was the "mamma's boy," shy, chubby (his nickname was "Bunch"), quick-tempered...
...Catalonia and Valencia September 25, 1354, the extermination of informers was made a public duty, in the accomplishment of which everyone was required to render his utmost assistance... [And later] when one was convicted of informing, he was branded on the forehead with a red not iron.... In Posen a Jewish informer is said to have been sentenced to death in accordance with the verdict of a Jewish court, so also as the last decades of the eighteenth century...
...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...