[4] His father, Samuel Meir Sigmund Petuchowski, died in 1928 and his mother was murdered in the Holocaust.
During the academic year 1963-64 he was rabbi and founding director of Judaic Studies at the college's newly established branch in Jerusalem.
[12] He married Elizabeth Mayer from Bochum on November 28, 1946, and they had three sons: Samuel, Aaron and Jonathan.
[13] His works include Ever Since Sinai (1961), Zion Reconsidered (1966), Prayerbook Reform in Europe (1968), Understanding Jewish Prayer (1972), Theology and Poetry (1978), Es lehrten unsere Meister (1979) and When Jews and Christians Meet (1986).
His story as a child leaving his mother and home town Berlin on the Kindertransport can be found in the book I came Alone pp. 242–244.