SCHWAB, HERMANN

SCHWAB, HERMANN (1879–1962), German journalist and historical writer. In his native Frankfurt Schwab joined the school of the Israelitische Religionsgesellschaft (see S.R.Hirsch ). He was employed from 1902 to 1927 in the metal enterprises of Aron Hirsch near Berlin and in Halberstadt. He also worked as a journalist for the Frankfurter Zeitung, the Vossische Zeitung and other newspapers, was editor of the Juedischer Volksschriftenverlag, and author of Orthodox children's books. A supporter of agudat israel and its founder, jacob rosenheim , Schwab organized its war orphans' fund during World War I, which established a number of orphanages in Poland. From 1927 he ran a press service in Berlin which he continued after emigrating to England in 1934. In London, he became president of the Golders Green Beth Hamidrash. His main published works are: Kindertraeume: Ein Maerchenbuch fuer juedische Kinder (1911; Dreams of Childhood, 1945); Orthodoxie und Zionismus… (1919); Aus der Schuetzenstrasse (1923; Memories of Frankfurt, 1955); A World in Ruins: History, Life and Work of German Jewry (1946); The History of Orthodox Jewry in Germany (1950); 1933: Ein Tagebuch (1953); Jewish Rural Communities in Germany (1956); and Chachme Ashkenaz (Eng., 1964). -BIBLIOGRAPHY: E.S. Schwab (ed.), Hermann Schwab (1963); A. Carlebach, "Hermann Schwab," in: LBI Yearbook (1962); P. Arnsberg, Die Geschichte der Frankfurter Juden… (1983), vol. 3, 477–79. (Archiv Bibliographia Judaica)