Name Ernst Ehrlich | Role Philosopher | |
Died October 21, 2007, Riehen, Switzerland Books A Concise History of Israel from the Earliest Times to the Destruction of the Temple in A | ||
Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich (March 27, 1921 – October 21, 2007) was a German-born Swiss Jewish religious philosopher. He was born in Berlin.
Ehrlich fled Nazi Germany for Switzerland in June 1943, using a false passport. From 1961 to 1994 he was European director of the Jewish organisation B'nai B'rith.
He was an adviser to German Cardinal Augustin Bea at the Second Vatican Council in preparing "Nostra aetate", a key document on Roman Catholic-Jewish relations.
He died at his home in Riehen, a suburb of Basel.
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