{{Short description|Canadian Conservative rabbi (1920–2024)}} {{Infobox Jewish leader | honorific-prefix = | name = Erwin Schild | honorific-suffix = {{post-nominals|country=CAN|size=100%|CM}} | title = Rabbi, Senior Rabbi | image = | caption = | synagogue = Adath Israel Congregation | synagogueposition = Rabbi | yeshiva = | yeshivaposition = | organisation = | organisationposition = | began = 1947 | ended = 1989 | predecessor = | successor = | rabbi = | rebbe = | kohan = | hazzan = | rank = | other_post = <!---------- Personal details ----------> | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1920|3|9}} | birth_place = Cologne, Rhine Province, Prussia, Germany | death_date = {{death date and age|2024|1|6|1920|3|9}} | death_place =Toronto, Ontario, Canada | buried = | nationality = | denomination = Conservative | residence = | dynasty = | parents = | spouse = | children = | occupation = | profession = | alma_mater = | semicha = | signature = }}
'''Erwin Schild''' {{post-nominals|country=CAN|CM}} (March 9, 1920 – January 6, 2024) was a German-born Canadian Conservative rabbi and author.
==Biography== Born in Cologne, Germany, a Holocaust survivor of the Dachau concentration camp,<ref name=Dachau>{{cite web|url=http://www.towncrieronline.ca/main/main.php?direction=viewstory&storyid=3727&rootcatid=&rootsubcatid=|title=Rabbi Erwin Schild engages in interfaith dialogue|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928044101/http://www.towncrieronline.ca/main/main.php?direction=viewstory&storyid=3727&rootcatid=&rootsubcatid=|archivedate=2007-09-28}}</ref> he was the author of ''World Through My Window'' and his autobiography ''The very narrow bridge: a memoir of an uncertain passage''. In September 1947, he became the Rabbi of Adath Israel Congregation in Toronto, Ontario and was appointed Rabbi Emeritus upon his retirement in 1989.<ref name=pulpit>{{cite web|url=http://www.adathisrael.com/about.html|title=Our History|work=Adath Israel Congregation|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060504212803/http://www.adathisrael.com/about.html|archivedate=2006-05-04}}</ref>
In 2001, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada, Canada's highest civilian honour, for "improving dialogue between the Christian and Jewish faiths, promoting harmony at home and abroad".<ref name=CM>{{OCC|8067}}</ref> In 2000, he was awarded the Officer's Cross (Offizierkreuz) of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.<ref name=OrderofMerit>{{cite web|url=http://gazette.gc.ca/archives/p1/2000/2000-09-30/html/gh-rg-eng.html#i2|title=AWARDS TO CANADIANS|work=Canada Gazette|access-date=2010-04-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090719104934/http://www.gazette.gc.ca/archives/p1/2000/2000-09-30/html/gh-rg-eng.html#i2|archive-date=2009-07-19|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Schild died on January 6, 2024, at the age of 103 in Toronto.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-01-10 |title=Holocaust-Überlebender und Osnabrücker Ehrendoktor Rabbiner Erwin Schild gestorben |url=https://www.hasepost.de/holocaust-ueberlebender-und-osnabruecker-ehrendoktor-rabbiner-erwin-schild-gestorben-435431/ |access-date=2024-01-10 |language=de-DE}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Rabbi Erwin Schild of Toronto's Adath Israel Synagogue personally experienced nearly 104 years of Jewish history (March 9, 1920–Jan. 6, 2024) |url=https://thecjn.ca/news/erwin-schild-profile/ |access-date=7 January 2024 |publisher=The Canadian Jewish News |date=6 January 2024}}</ref>
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