Hermann Lieber
Vita
Rabbiner
(MK) Interviews mit der Witwe Sary Lieber
Rabbi Hermann Lieber, who had a profound influence on my [Manny Kirchheimer's] youth. This versatile man served as canto and gave sermons, taught Hebrew school and conducted funerals, weddings, and bar nitzvahs, visited the sick, ran a day camp and took children in trips, rehearsed the synagogue choir, and lay in wait at the 163rd Street subway at 7:30 in the morning to collar male congregants into making up a minyan, the obligatory ten men for service. (19-20)
Originally from Nuremberg, Hermann Lieber first worked in Zurich as a Hebre teacher and cantor (he had a beautiful operatic voice). Sary Pifko, who was born in Zurich in 1915, was his pupil there from age seven to twelve. He was a dozen years older than she. Around 1929, Rabbi Lieber left his job and his studies in Switzerland and accepted a position in Hamburg. (20)
The Lieber family arrived in America in May 1939 and stayed with relatives in Paterson, New Jersey, for a couple of months. They were curious about New York City and somewhat apprehensive. (,,,) The moste immediate problem was finding work for Rabbi LIeber, preferably outside New York City. (...) For a while, in order to earn some money, Rabbi Lieber sold stockings as a traveling salesman for another German Jewish refugee. (...) He and his wife also sold Jewish newspaprers to local stores.
hired for five dollars a week at the synagogue in Washington Heights
; aftger about a year or so, he was raised to seven dollars and fifty cents (96-97)
neighbor of Berthold Kirchheimer
The Liebers also tried to buy Cuban visas for Rabbi Lieber's mother, his sister, and her two children, but it was to late, and they all perished eventually. (99)
Remarques
(geni.com) Sohn von Josef Lieber und Esther Lieber
Ehemann von Sara Lieber
Bruder von Anna Sulzberger
(W) Tochter Susie Grama geb. Lieber 1936 Hamburg
Tochter Miriam Grumet geb. Lieber 1937 Hamburg
Tochter Ester Levenbrown geb. Lieber 1950 New York, NY