Paul Leo: Pastor with Jewish Roots in Flight from Nazism

by Carsten Linden and Craig L. Nessan

Although baptized as a child and serving faithfully as a pastor and theologian in the German Evangelische Kirche, Paul Leo was persecuted, removed from his church position, and imprisoned by the Nazi regime due to his Jewish ancestry. Leo was a descendent of Moses Mendelssohn, the famous Jewish philosopher, and Fanny Hensel nee Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, the composer and pianist. The book carefully documents how the Nazis took severe measures against...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1666765783
• ISBN13: 9781666765786
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: Cascade Books
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"