Life
Born in Prague (then in Austria-Hungary), Weltsch studied Law and Philosophy at the Charles University. He lived and worked in Prague until 15 March 1939, and left the city with Max Brod and his family on the last train out of Czechoslovakia. In Palestine, he worked as a librarian in Jerusalem until his death in 1964.
He had one daughter, Ruth Weltsch (1920–1991), with his wife Irma Herz (1892–1969). They married in August 1914. The publisher, journalist and important Zionist Robert Weltsch was Felix Weltsch's cousin. He published the Jewish paper Juedische Rundschau in Berlin, in which he criticized Adolf Hitler's anti-Semitic politics, for instance with the article "Tragt ihn mit Stolz, den gelben Fleck!" (Carry the yellow badge with pride!)- weekly Jued. Rundschau, April 4, 1933.
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