Walter Homolka — rabbi with roots in the Russia
Rabbi Professor Walter Homolka is one of Germany's most prominent Jewish religious figures — the founding rector of the Abraham Geiger College, Germany's first rabbinical seminary since the Holocaust. He has been a central figure in rebuilding liberal Jewish life in Germany, drawing heavily on the Russian-Jewish diaspora that transformed German Jewish communities after 1990.
Tracing the roots — Germany
Homolka's family has connections to the Eastern European Jewish world, and his entire career has been devoted to serving and rebuilding the German Jewish community that is now predominantly Russian-speaking in its origin. The Abraham Geiger College he founded trains rabbis for communities whose members are overwhelmingly from the former Soviet Union.
Germany. Today, the former Soviet space comprises fifteen sovereign independent states.