Avira > I realize this may horrify some, but I’m involved in chinuch. ..Interpersonally, one must be non judgemental
I am curious, could you clarify: if R Moshe Soloveichik have hired you to be a melamed of his son, would you try to discourage (directly or indirectly) him from going to the Free Polish University and to University of Berlin?
to bring you to those times, here are several professors that a young Yoshe Ber would encounter there:
Max Dessoir was born in Berlin, into a German Jewish family..An associate of Pierre Janet and Sigmund Freud, Dessoir published in 1890 a book on The Double Ego, describing the mind as divided into two layers, each with its own associative links[4] – its own chain of memory.[5] He considered that the ‘underconsciousness’ (Unterbewusstein) emerged in such phenomena as dreams, hypnosis, and dual personality..In 1889, in an article in the German periodical Sphinx, Dessoir coined the term ‘parapsychology’ (actually in its German equivalent, ‘Parapsychologie’): “If one … characterizes by para- something going beyond or besides the ordinary, than one could perhaps call the phenomena that step outside the usual process of the inner life parapsychical, and the science dealing with them parapsychology. ..Dessoir was an amateur magician who had used the pseudonym “Edmund W. Rells”. He was interested in the history and psychology of magic.
Eugen Mittwoch (December 4, 1876 – November 8, 1942) was the founder of Modern Islamic Studies in Germany, and at the same time an eminent Jewish scholar…Coming from an old Orthodox Jewish family, ..He initially wanted to become a Rabbi. During his studies in Berlin he discovered Islamic studies and did his doctorate ..In the early 1920s Mittwoch was involved in the planning of the Hebrew University and its School of Oriental Studies.[1] He was invited to Jerusalem to receive a professorship of Arabic for one year, but apparently refused the invitation. ..Since he was a leading specialist on Ethiopian languages world-wide, Mittwoch did not lose his academic position in 1933 immediately like almost all his Jewish colleagues in Germany did at that time. This had to do with a special intervention by Mussolini with Hitler on behalf of Mittwoch..Mittwoch used his “privileged” position in Germany (he continued to receive his salary as a German professor until the beginning of the war) on behalf of the Jewish community, he became head of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in Berlin. [of course you would know only things up to 1930]