Sammy Gronemann: Biography, Facts and Career

Sammy (Samuel) Gronemann (21 March 1875 – 6 March 1952) was a German-Jewish lawyer, Zionist official, satirist, and playwright. Born in Strasburg, West Prussia (today Brodnica, Poland), the son of the chief rabbi of Hanover, he was trained first in Talmud and then in law, and practiced for years as an attorney in Berlin. Within the Zionist movement, he was best known as its senior judge. He founded and chaired the Court of Honour from 1911 and served as chief judge of the Zionist Congress Court from 1921 until 1947. In this role he earned a reputation as what one scholar calls the "institutionalized conscience" of the movement. Gronemann was a leading contributor to the satirical Zionist magazine Der Schlemiel. He drew on his First World War service among the Jews of Eastern Europe to write the bestselling satirical novel Tohuwabohu (1920). After fleeing Nazi Germany for Paris in 1933 and immigrating to Mandatory Palestine in 1936, he settled in Tel Aviv and turned to writing for the Hebrew stage. His comedy Der Weise und der Narr, in Nathan Alterman's translation, became King Solomon and Shalmai the Cobbler, described as one of the most successful plays in the history of the Israeli theater.

Quick facts about Sammy Gronemann

• Full name: Sammy Gronemann
• Born: 1875-03-21
• Nationality: Germany
• Known as: Author
• Wikidata ID: Q106217

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