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Joachim Prinz

Who

Joachim Prinz · Arts & Literature

What

Rabbi and civil-rights leader who spoke at the 1963 March on Washington.

When

1902, Burkhardsdorf, Germany — 1988, Livingston, New Jersey, United States

Where

Germany · United States

Biography

Joachim Prinz is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Rabbi and civil-rights leader who spoke at the 1963 March on Washington.

How & why

Joachim Prinz was a German-American rabbi and civil-rights leader who, having fled Nazi Germany, drew on the lessons of the Holocaust to champion racial justice in the United States. As a prominent Reform rabbi and president of the American Jewish Congress, he spoke immediately before Martin Luther King Jr. at the 1963 March on Washington, warning that the most shameful problem is silence. His Jewish faith and experience of persecution grounded his lifelong activism against bigotry.

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Source: IMDb (Jewish Actors list)

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Rabbi and civil-rights leader who spoke at the 1963 March on Washington.

Source: IMDb (Jewish Actors list)