page_title: Samuel Freund
section_title: The Eckart Affair
hierarchical_section_title: Samuel Freund / The Eckart Affair
caption_attribution_description: English: Description: German Jewish soldiers at military Hanukkah celebration Creator/Photographer: unknown Medium: black-and-white reproduction Date: 1916 Persistent URL: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&amp;object_id=882487 Repository: Leo Baeck Institute Parent Collection: Bloch, Hans Call Number: ME 63 Rights Information: No known copyright restrictions; may be subject to third party rights. For more copyright information, click here. See more information about this image and others at CJH Digital Collections.
context_page_description: Samuel Freund was the senior rabbi of Hannover and the Landrabbiner for the German state of Lower Saxony.
context_section_description: In 1921, Samuel Freund took a leading role in the German Jewish community's response to the anti-Semitic charges of Dietrich Eckart, editor of Auf Gut Deutsch. Eckart, looking to spread the calumny that Jews had not contributed to the German war effort during World War I, offered a prize of 1,000 marks for proof that even a single Jewish family had sent three sons into the army to fight for more than three weeks. 
  "Rabbi Freund of Hannover immediately gave him a list of twenty families in his own community who sent three sons into the trenches for three weeks and more. Dr. Freund also presented a list of 50 families from various communities, some of which sent seven and eight sons to the trenches and had lost three sons in the service of their country."
  Eckart refused to pay the 1,000 marks. The Patriotic League of Jewish Frontline Veterans brought a lawsuit against him and, in 1924, they prevailed. Ordered by a German court to pay 1,000 marks to the Jewish veterans group, Eckart complied.
caption: German Jewish soldiers celebrate Hanukkah, 1916
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