Etzioni's team managed to breach the fence protecting the radar station and plant and detonate a bomb, and escaped after the British shot their team leader through the head. Etzioni participated in a Palmach operation to blow up a British radar station near Haifa being used to track ships carrying illegal Jewish immigrants attempting to enter Palestine. Etzioni, at the age of thirteen, was struggling at school, which then caused his mother to send him to a boarding school in Ben Shemen.ĭuring Etzioni's time in the Palmach, underground Jewish groups, mainly the Irgun and Lehi militias, and to a lesser extent the Palmach, were carrying out a violent campaign against the British authorities to compel them to allow more Jewish immigration to Palestine and leave the country to enable a Jewish state to be established. In the spring of 1941, Etzioni's father left home once again to join the Jewish Brigade, which was a Jewish unit formed within the British army. When Etzioni was eight, his family moved to the new village, Kfar Shmaryahu, where his family was assigned to a small, boxlike new house that was used as a lot for farming. Etzioni moved once again with his family to a small village, Herzliya Gimmel, which served as a base for a new emerging community called Kfar Shmaryahu. Etzioni's Hebrew name was printed in the front of the family Bible, which was left in Germany, so he was given the name Amitai which means truth (emet) and was the name of Jonah's father in the Old Testament. It was at this time he began to go by his first name Amitai instead of Werner, since the principal of Etzioni's new school strongly encouraged that Etzioni introduce himself by his Hebrew name. When the paperwork was finally resolved, Etzioni found himself in Haifa, Mandatory Palestine in the winter of 1937 where he had to learn another language, Hebrew. During this year, Etzioni attended a Greek school learning the language. The family was stuck midway between Germany and Haifa for a whole year. Etzioni was stuck with his parents in Athens, Greece unable to enter Palestine since his family was awarded a bachelor permit instead of a family permit. Etzioni was smuggled out of Germany soon afterwards to a train station in Italy by a non-Jewish relative who soon reunited Etzioni with his parents. When Etzioni had turned five, both of his parents had escaped to London to avoid the Nazi regime, which left Etzioni in the care of his grandparents. The grandparents then took Etzioni and rushed down the hill without explaining to him what happened during their close encounter with the Nazi regime. Etzioni's grandparents reacted by grabbing Etzioni and hiding behind nearby trees.

Suddenly, Hitler Youth ventured into the forest riding in two trucks. Later in 1933, Etzioni and his grandparents were walking through the forest next to Frankfurt when they came upon a forest fire. Etzioni was pulled back into the car at the last moment by his father, but as noted in his memoir, this memory foreshadowed the upcoming doom that would overtake his homeland during the Nazi rule. Etzioni was only four years old when the car he was riding in made a sharp turn and in response, he grabbed a handle that opened the door. Etzioni is currently the Director of the Institute for Communitarian Policy Studies at George Washington University.Īmitai Etzioni was born Werner Falk in Cologne, Germany in 1929 to a Jewish family.Etzioni's earliest memory is being thrown out of a car in Cologne, Germany in January 1933. In 2001, Etzioni was named among the top 100 American intellectuals, as measured by academic citations, in Richard Posner's book, Public Intellectuals: A Study of Decline. His writings emphasize the importance for all societies to have a carefully crafted balance between rights and responsibilities and between autonomy and order. He was the founder of the communitarian movement in the early 1990s and established the Communitarian Network to disseminate the movement's ideas. He leads the Communitarian Network, a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to support the moral, social, and political foundations of society. Amitai Etzioni ( / ˈ æ m ɪ t aɪ ˌ ɛ t s i ˈ oʊ n i/ born Werner Falk, January 4, 1929) is a German-born American sociologist, best known for his work on socioeconomics and communitarianism.

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