Sammy Gronemann

Sammy) Gronemann was the son of the chief rabbi of Hannover. Gronemann became one of chief contributors to the satirical magazine Schlemiel (which ran 1903-1905, 1919-1924). He fled to Paris in 1933 after the rise of the Nazis, and immigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1936. A Final Reckoning: A Hannover Family's Life and Death in the Shoah 2013 0817318097 "Sammy Gronemann was the son of Landrabbiner Selig Gronemann (1883–1918) of Lower Saxony. The Rabbinate of Lower Saxony had been established in 1687." Derek Penslar Israel in History: The Jewish State in Comparative Perspective 2007 1134146698 "One of Schlemiel's chief contributors, the genial Zionist humorist Sammy Gronemann, was the son of the chief rabbi of Hannover and had a thorough yeshiva education, but he did not make use of his Judaic knowledge in his writing, which, despite its paeans to the East European Jewish folk soul and its condemnation of assimilation, was destined for an audience of highly acculturated readers "¹