Ginsburger, Ernest
GINSBURGER, ERNEST
GINSBURGER, ERNEST (1876–1943), French rabbi and Jewish historian; born in Héricourt (Haute-Saône), France. During World War i he volunteered as rabbi of the French 18th Army Corps and was awarded the Médaille Militaire. He was subsequently chief rabbi of Geneva, Belgium, and Bayonne. Arrested in March 1942, he was interned at Compiègne and deported to a death camp in February 1943. Ginsburger left valuable essays on Jewish history, including Les Juifs de Belgique au xviiie siècle (1932), "Les Juifs de Frauenberg" (in rej, 47 (1903), 87–122), and Le Comité de Surveillance de Jean-Jacques Rousseau – Saint-Esprit-les-Bayonne (1934), based on the minutes of the only committee in revolutionary France with a majority of Jewish members.
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