Manfred Swarsensky

Manfred Erich Swarsensky (October 22, 1906 in Marienfließ in Pomerania – November 10, 1981 in Madison, Wisconsin) was a German-American rabbi.

Born in Marienfließ in Pomerania (renamed Marianowo after 1945), Prussia, Swarsensky gained a PhD from the Higher Institute for Jewish Studies in Berlin in 1929.

[1][2] He became a liberal Rabbi with Jüdische Gemeinde zu Berlin, the Jewish unity congregation comprising the bulk of Jewish faithful in Berlin and combining Jews of mainstream (also called liberal, in today's English terminology 'conservative'), Orthodox and Reform affiliation.

In 1938 the Nazis burned his preferred synagogue on Prinzregentenstraße and imprisoned him in Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

For the next thirty-six years he worked as Rabbi for Temple Beth El, a Reform synagogue in Madison, Wisconsin.