Portrait of Rabbi Dr. J. Prinz, Berlin 1935

Profile portrait of Prinz, minimal detail. Titled on diagonal in lower right.Herbert and Nancy Bernhard Collection.Invited to Berlin in January 1926, Prinz was the youngest rabbi serving the Jewish community. During Hitler’s rise to power until his departure in 1937, Prinz was a vocal and public critic of Nazism, resulting in his being repeatedly arrested by the Gestapo. In 1937, Prinz came to the United States at the invitation of Rabbi Stephen S. Wise and, once there, decided to immigrate. After returning to Germany to get his family, a farewell meeting was held in his honor in Berlin where he addressed 2,000 persons–-one of whom was Adolf Eichmann, monitoring the meeting. Despite his decision to emigrate, Prinz was formally ordered to leave Germany in 1937, in the form of a signed expulsion order