| 词条 | Herbert Tarr |
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| name = Herbert Tarr | image = Herbert Tarr.jpg | imagesize = 200px | caption = Herbert Tarr | pseudonym = | birth_name = Herbert Targovik | birth_date = 1929 | birth_place = Brooklyn, New York | death_date = November 18, 1993 | death_place = Roslyn Heights, Long Island, New York | occupation = Novelist, Rabbi | nationality = United States | period = | genre = Literary fiction | subject = | movement = | notableworks =The Conversion of Chaplain Cohen Heaven Help Us! | signature = | website = }}Herbert Tarr (1929 – November 18, 1993), born Herbert Targovik, was an American Reform rabbi who left his pulpit to become a novelist and humorist, believing he could reach more people that way because "religion is basically out of touch with people."[1] BiographyTarr was born in Brooklyn, New York.[1] He attended Brooklyn College, graduating magna cum laude. Later he earned advanced degrees in a number of academic areas, including philosophy, contemporary literature and drama, from institutions including Herzliah Hebrew Teachers Institute-Jewish Teachers Seminary, Columbia University, and the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.[1] He was ordained as a rabbi in 1955 and entered the United States Air Force to serve as a military chaplain. This experience inspired some of his first novel, The Conversion of Chaplain Cohen.[1] In it, he explore how a young civilian rabbi was "converted" to the role of a military chaplain who helps men and women of all faiths.[1][2] Following his service as a chaplain, Tarr served as the rabbi of a synagogue in Buffalo, New York. In 1960, he moved to a congregation in Westbury, New York.[1] In 1963 he decided to leave the pulpit to pursue a career as a novelist full-time,[3] believing that he could be more effective in terms of reaching others that way. He said, "[R]eligion is basically out of touch with people".[1] He wanted to help people "contemplate their lives," to consider "how they fit into the world around them".[1] He wrote with humor, through stories that carried values and ideals.[1] As the playwright Brendan Behan wrote in a review for his first novel, The Conversion of Chaplain Cohen (1963), while Tarr "has us busy laughing, he's throwing sermons at us behind our backs".[1][4] A Kirkus Review of his work So Help Me God! affirmed Tarr's mixture of humor and serious messages, noting that Tarr's easy-going and companionable rambles through American Jews' spiritual and secular preoccupations (Heaven Help Us!, 1968) continue to amuse, but here he explores some deeply serious and disturbing matters such as Vietnam, the plight of Soviet Jewry, and the essence of religion.[5] Tarr used his experiences as a pulpit rabbi and military chaplain to inform his writings, and also used his rabbinic knowledge.[6] For example, his novel, A Time for Loving, is based on the Biblical book, The Song of Solomon (also known as the Song of Songs).[6] Tarr wrote one play, "The New Frontier," a comedy that held tryouts in New Haven and Philadelphia, with the hope that it would make it to Broadway.[7] Tarr died of liver cancer at the age of 64 on November 18, 1993, at the home of his sister, in Roslyn Heights, New York.[1] LegacyThe North Shore Institute for Adult Jewish Learning, a joint educational program serving 18 synagogues and one Jewish community center in the Long Island area,[8] was renamed the Herbert Tarr North Shore Institute for Adult Jewish Learning in his memory.[9] The 2012 season of the Jewish Studies and Lectures Program opened at Temple Judea in Roslyn, New York in October 2012.[10] Bibliography
References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 {{cite web |last=Saxon |first=Wolfgang |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/19/obituaries/herbert-tarr-rabbi-who-found-calling-as-writer-dies-at-64.html |title=Herbert Tarr, Rabbi who found calling as writer, dies at 64|work=The New York Times|date=November 19, 1993|accessdate=October 29, 2012}} 2. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/herbert-tarr-2/the-conversion-of-chaplain-cohen/#review |title=The Conversion of Chaplain Cohen by Herbert Tarr |year=2012|accessdate=October 29, 2012|publisher=Kirkus Reviews}} 3. ^{{cite web |url=http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1993-11-20/news/9311200142_1_tarr-woman-of-spirit-westbury |title=Rabbi Herbert Tarr |date=November 20, 1993 |accessdate=November 7, 2012 |work=Orlando Sentinel}} 4. ^Behan, Brendan, "Between the laughs, a sermon or two," The New York Times Book Review, July 21, 1963, retrieved November 7, 2012 5. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/herbert-tarr/so-help-me-god-3/#review |title=So Help Me God! by Herbert Tarr |publisher=Kirkus Reviews|year=2012 |accessdate=October 29, 2012}} 6. ^1 {{cite web |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/herbert-tarr/a-time-for-loving/#review |title=A Time for Loving by Herberg Tarr|publisher=Kirkus Reviews|year=2012 |accessdate=October 29, 2012}} 7. ^[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1697&dat=19630606&id=wr8dAAAAIBAJ&sjid=-EUEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5660,2937006 People in the News,] Park City Daily News (from an AP release), June 6, 1963, retrieved November 7, 2012 8. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.temple-judea.com/adulted.html |title=Temple Judea Adult Education |publisher=Temple Judea of Manhassat |accessdate=November 7, 2012 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130114064731/http://www.temple-judea.com/adulted.html |archivedate=January 14, 2013 |df=mdy-all }} 9. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.herberttarr.org/about_rabbi_herbert_tarr.html |title=Herbert Tarr Institute website |accessdate=October 29, 2012 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121021234650/http://herberttarr.org/about_rabbi_herbert_tarr.html |archivedate=October 21, 2012 |df=mdy-all }} 10. ^{{cite web |url=http://theroslynnews.com/2012/dershowitz-lecture-at-temple-judea-october-21/|title=Dershowitz Lecture At Temple Judea October 21|work=The Roslyn News |date=October 5, 2012 |accessdate=November 7, 2012}} External links
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