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BY RABBI MAXMILLIAN HELLER, B. L v M. A.
As 1881 was made memorable in Jewish annals by the
Elizavetgrad pogrom, 1891 by the Moscow oblava, that midnight raid upon the unsuspecting, so 1903 will be known as
the year of Kishineff. In the intervening years, Germany,
Austria, France, Algeria, Eoumania, have, each in turn, held
the centre of the Jewish stage by some fitful outburst of prejudice or hatred; Russia, the great anachronism, stepfatherland of one-half of the world's Jews, has easily distanced,
in these three successive times, all the accumulated horrors
of every other paroxysm.
At the opening of 5663, Jewish pulpits resounded with
exultation over Secretary Hay's Note to Roumania. There
was, at once, a feeling of uncertainty as to the probable effects
of that bold act of intercession, even some criticism of the
statements and implications put forward. Hardly any one expected united action on the part of the Powers appealed to;
whatever hope of ultimate benefit there was rested upon the
moral weight of the measure and upon the financial exigencies
of the turbulent Danubian Kingdom. Efforts were made, in
the course of the year, to bring the matter to a head; England addressed a Note to Germany, proposing action; Dr.
Bernstein appealed in the German Reichstag, Count d'Aunay
in the French Senate, for some condemnation of Roumania's
breach of agreement. Neither appeal met with any response,
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while an interpellation in the Austrian Keichsrath received a
sympathetic reply from Minister Korber who had, however,
to avow his helplessness in the premises. A previous petition
of the Alliance Israelite Universelle, addressed to the French
and Italian Governments, had been equally ineffective.
There seems to be little, if any, change in the desperate
situation of the Eoumanian Jews. The awful misery which
prevails in the Jewish quarters of Bucharest surpasses, according to the testimony of Koumanian journalists, the worst
scenes that can be witnessed in the slums of Paris or London.
A ray of hope sprang up suddenly in consequence of a sensational cable dispatch, which announced that the Eoumanian
Senate had concluded to grant naturalization to the Jews.
The fact proved to be that one Jew had been given the coveted
privilege. The only effect of Minister Kbrber's words was
to incense Eoumanian politicians against the unpatriotic
aliens who, they maintained, were making war abroad upon
the country which harbored them. The massacre in adjacent
Kishineff only whetted the apftetite of Eoumanian anti-Semitism for similar high carnivals. The situation is one of
unrelieved gloom, with little prospect of abatement in the
near future.
One turns naturally from Eoumania, which sprang, in 1902,
into sudden notoriety, to that hotbed of Jewish misery which
presents the centre of gravity for the most serious of Jewish
problems. That Eussia is the land of whims and contradictions, we can realize when we remember that Kishineff was
ushered in, in the very month preceding it, by the famous
sphinx-ukase which wa? labelled the Czar's edict of toleration.
The liberties of Finland were expiring under the heel of military rule, and there was considerable skepticism in the glad
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welcome with which the promise of religious toleration under
a Holy Synod was greeted. That the Jews had no reason
to hope for any betterment became apparent soon enough; yet
no one could have anticipated the spasm of fury by which
Russia was to exhibit to the world how far she is as yet from
any actual reign of tolerance.
We can see now that the Kishineff atrocity was not an
unpremeditated outburst; the air was laden with storm, and
there were those who busied themselves with accumulating
the fuel for a conflagration. When the boy Ribalenko was
found murdered in Dubossary, the Jews of Kishineff understood their danger; but their deputations to the capital met
with evasive, soothing replies, their appeal to the Metropolitan was answered with an open avowal of his belief in ritual
murder. Whether Von Plehve sent the famous note to the
Governor forbidding a vigorous suppression of anti-Jewish
riots, or whether the dispatch emanated from some journalistic brain, it is certain that the infamous Krushevan was
afforded every facility to inflame the populace. Leaflets were
distributed on the eve of the massacre, calling upon the people
to rise; protection was asked by the Jews at the hands of the
civil and military authorities who pretended to see no danger.
The mounting horrors upon horrors of those three days (April
19-21), which will leave a lasting stain upon the history of
the Russian people, we must pass over; suffice it to remember
that within the present generation no instance can be recalled in which the press reports teemed with such shocking
details, or when the united voice of civilization rang out with
a protest of such intense horror.
The news filtered very slowly through the usual channels;
the Russian Government seemed to stand aghast at its own
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harvest and to make awkward efforts at minimizing the upheaval.
Its official mouth-pieces stammered, contradicted
themselves and one another, brought forward explanations, indictments, apologies which had every appearance of untruthfulness and insincerity. By their own official admissions 45
Jews had been killed, 74 severely and some 300 less seriously
wounded;* it is attested by trustworthy witnesses that members of the upper class led organized bands of rioters, that
the bishop passed, unprotesting, through the crowd, that police
and military, with some few honorable exceptions, aided and
abetted the rioters in their murderous excesses.
In the storm of indignation which arose over the fiendish
barbarism of this outburst, we discern a very hopeful sign:
the overwhelming power of public sentiment, before which
even a truculent autocracy like Russia cowers into recrimination and apology. It was asserted on excellent authority
that the Czar was heartbroken over the disgrace of Russia;
the seriousness of the blot was openly and deeply deplored
by such men as Tolstoi and Gorki; Governor and Chief of
Police were promptly deposed, an extension of credit was
readily granted to the embarrassed Jewish merchants of Kishineff, promises of protection were given to those alarmed, and
stern commands issued for the prompt suppression of threatening disorder. A trifling alleviation in the restrictions of
residence was thrown oat as an evident sop; the feeling
of unrest was, no doubt, proving injurious to other than Jewish interests.
* The official figures furnished by the Kishineff Relief Committee give the number of families that suffered from the riots
at about 2750. The dead numbered 47, the severely wounded 92,
the slightly wounded 345.
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Meanwhile, the storm-tide of indignation and pity had been
steadily rising. The New York Journal, with commendable
enterprise, had sent the great Irish patriot, Michael Davitt,
to the scene of the disaster; he brought back graphic accounts
of the extent of the massacre, disproving the charge of Eussian
officials that a Jew had provoked the riot, and that Jewish
assailants had caused it to be renewed the second day. While
money was being collected, and indignation meetings were
bei,ng held all over the world, the Eussian Government vented
its impotent anger upon the St. Petersburg correspondent of
the London Times, who was summarily expelled.
Almost from the first, the world's indignation centred in
the United States. Served ,by a vigorous press, whose liberal
spirit voices the prevailing attitude; animated by a humanitarianism which lies at the foundation of all our public institutions ; realizing also that America was the chief refuge of
all victims of persecution; the people of the United States
became, again, the world's logical leaders in a campaign of
humanity. Such specious defense as the Eussian Government
put forward through Ambassador Cassini, Chief of the Police
Lopoukhine, Arnold White, and others, did not improve its
case at the bar of American common sense. Secretary Hay
sent his contribution to the relief fund in the face of the Eussian claim that there was no need of help; even the Chinese of
ISTew York were stirred to active sympathy. Great meetings
of protest were held all over the country, notably at Carnegie
Hall, New York, where ex-President Cleveland, Professor J.
G. Schurman, and others voiced the popular feeling with
stern, but temperate eloquence. Large sums of money were
collected by journals, churches, committees, until, on June 15,
the eagerness for some public expression of popular feeling
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culminated in a petition, presented by officers of the Independent Order of B'nai B'rith to Secretary Hay and President
Roosevelt, for transmission, along diplomatic channels, to the
Eussian Government. The President, having, in a cordial and
sincere address, made known his strong personal feelings of
sympathy, seemed inclined to doubt the practicability of such
a step. Shortly after the reception, however, he notified the
B'nai B'rith Committee that he would transmit the petition, if
such transmission appeared likely to benefit the Jews of Russia. The Russian Government gave out unofficial warning that
no such petition would be received. By direction of the President the petition was prepared, signatures were quickly gathered all over the country, and the Secretary in charge of our
St. Petersburg Embassy was instructed to notify the Russian
Government of the terms of the petition and its impending
transmission. Upon the official refusal of that Government
either to receive or consider the petition, it was concluded
to file the document and regard the incident as closed.
Kept on record in the archives of the United States, endorsed
by an imposing array of the most resplendent names in American public life, this remarkable document will always constitute historic evidence of the humanitarian temper of the
American people at the opening of the twentieth century.
The drama of Kishineff closes with the usual Russian contradiction; in Kishineff itself an apparently vigorous prosecution of the rioters has been set on foot; meanwhile a spirit
of petty retaliation appears in the recent restriction upon the
issuing of Russian passports in this country. Of an international Jewish conference in Berlin, called to consider the
needs of Kishineff, only meagre reports have become public,
according to which wholesale emigration was thought inad-
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visable. On the other hand our immigration for June does
not show any perceptible increase as an effect of the great
massacre.
Little more remains to be said as to the Jewish status in
Eussia. Misfortune lent a new impetus to Palestinian immigration against which, as a rash step, the Zionists themselves issued warning. A Socialist demonstration of Jews in
Lodz, Eussian Poland, was savagely attacked by Cossacks with
drawn swords; but this treatment is meted out impartially,
in Eussia, to the orthodox striker as well as to the Jewish
socialist. Latterly the bureaucracy has taken to the issuing of
dark threats against the Jewish socialist. That there is a
surprising reverse to the whole dismal story has become manifest in the celebration of the seventieth birthday anniversary
of Baron Horace de Giinzburg, which enlisted the enthusiasm
of Eussian Jews all over the world. Even in Eussia, it seems,
there is considerable scope left for the exercise of Jewish
genius and the triumph of Jewish character.
Involuntarily the Jew associates with Eussia every other
semi-civilized country in which the Jew languishes in more
or less intermittent darkness. Of the Balkan Peninsula there
is little to relate; the Servian and Bulgarian Jews are living
under favorable auspices, despite political upheavals; the insignificant riot which broke up a Kishineff protest meeting in
Sofia expressed the Eussian sympathies, rather than any antiJewish prejudice, of the Macedonian rioters. A certain unrest agitated Jewish communities wherever the Macedonian
movement was stirring the popular pulse to a menacing feverishness.
There was little change in Palestine from the ordinary
discouraging conditions. The cholera caused some distress in
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autumn, stimulating the usual campaign of shrill-toned beggary; in the spring the epidemic had spread to Syria. A
strange paradox, in the light of history, was the visit of the
Samaritan second-priest to London, where he met with a kind
reception on the part of representative Jews; it is one of the
quaint ironies of Providence that the bitter enemies of old
should come, in their hour of need, to their former brothers
rather than to the Christian stranger whose gospel has made
Samaritan a household word for charity.
There is a vast distance, geographically, between Persia and
Morocco; in the degree of their civilization and in the condition of their Jews there is little perceptible difference. In
both countries fanaticism and lawlessness are a constant source
of danger to the lives and property of the Jews; in both
countries the sovereigns are favorably inclined, but cannot
always interfere in time on behalf of the victims of Mohammedan prejudice and misrule. In Morocco the situation, ordinarily dismal enough, was complicated, additionally, by the
revolt on behalf of the Pretender, which did not fail to raise
its due portion of anti-Jewish slander.
There was peace in neighboring Algeria. Here anti-Semitism may be said to have sustained its most crushing and complete defeat. With Max Kegis silenced, the Anti-Juif gone
out of existence, the loud anti-Semitic chorus of other days
is subdued, almost to the point of harmlessness. The visit
of President Loubet, it is hoped, has given a permanent quietus
to the bitter prejudice which had threatened the livelihood,
sometimes the lives of Algerian Jews. His open disapproval
of all racial persecution, his calmly, but firmly expressed hope
for peace and concord will, no doubt, go far towards discrediting and checking all further anti-Semitic agitation among
the mixed population of the French colony.
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The Argentine experiment seems to bear close resemblance
to a failure, if we are to credit recent accounts, though the
authorities of the IKA report progress. In Shanghai the
efforts for the " rescue •" ox the Kaifungfu Jews are being
bravely pushed on, while more and more information is coming to the surface concerning that strangest of Jewish survivals. Meanwhile Judaism is finding new homes in Manila
and on the Yukon, trying to awake in Hawaii, and slumbering
uneasily in Mexico and Brazil. The Diaspora is becoming
ever wider and more multiform.
As we return to the large centres of Judaism we find little
in Austria from which we may draw fresh hope for the
future. In the fall election for the Diet of Lower Austria,
the anti-Semites carried Vienna by an overwhelming vote, the
Diet being again virtually in their hands; the redoubtable
Karl Lueger was elected Mayor of Vienna for the third time.
Conversions to Christianity, many of them from the • best
circles, are now said to average six hundred a year in Vienna
alone. A critical point seems to have been reached in Galicia,
where the wretched social condition of the Jews gives rise to
the gravest anxieties. It is here that the infamous traffic in
girls finds its most promising field: the new movement to relieve the worst of want by the creation of domestic industries
has as yet scarcely touched the hem of the perplexing problem.
It is said that of the 900,000 Jews in Galicia seventy percent, having no assured livelihood, are forced to resort to beggary. The Governor of Galicia, Count Potocky, admitted to a
committee of the Lemberg community that the situation of the
Galician Jews, especially in the small towns, is one of incredible misery. Galicia has never had a Kishineff to awaken the
world to the extremity of its need; perhaps the novelist Gor-
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don may bring back some rousing message from his visit. So
far the Jewish world has failed to take the energetic and
united measures for which the world-scandal of the international girl-traffic would seem to call. Of a wider than local
interest among Austrian Jewish events is the building of a
large. Jewish hospital in Karlsbad, due to the tactful energy
of Rabbi Dr. Ziegler, and the condemnation, despite protest,
of a portion of the historic cemetery at Prague.
It is not easy to characterize, in a few words, the position
in which German Jewry finds itself as it reviews the varied
happenings of 5663. The decline of anti-Semitism as a political factor was made clear by the elections for the Reichstag,
which cut down the strength of the anti-Semitic representation in almost every quarter. The very fact that Jews, at the
reballoting, chose in several districts to give their vote to an
anti-Semite, rather than to his Socialist or Polish rival, speaks
volumes for the comparative impotence of anti-Semitism as
a political power. The noisiest swashbucklers of the party,
the Count Piicklers, the Bocklers, and Bruhns, are not only
continuing the absurd antics which have made their party
ridiculous, but are meeting, on the whole, with condign punishment on the part of the courts. The attitude of the Emperor
continues as puzzling as ever; with one hand he lavishes distinctions on the great promoters of German commerce, such
as Albert Ballin and Consul Goldberger, wishing it to be understood that patriotic merit will be rewarded regardless of
race or faith; with the other he lightens the penalties of antiSemites. Possibly the personal feeling beneath his imperial
policy appears involuntarily, in his letter to Admiral von Hollmann on Professor Friedrich Delitzsch's Babel-Bible lecture,
when he expresses the opinion that it would not " matter that
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much of the nimbus of the chosen people would thereby disappear." The most serious feature in the life of the Jew in
Germany is not the raving of the political anti-Semite who renders the valuable service of caricaturing the grimace of hatred,
but rather the deep-seated dislike, jealousy, and fear which can
treat with indifference or even palliation all the countless acts
of administrative injustice by which the career of the unconverted Jew is constantly crippled in the German army, university, and judiciary, in the diplomatic and other public service. A comparatively new feature of uncertain menace is the
"Judenreines Haus," a move in the line of ostracism of
which it is difficult to foretell the future.
Perhaps Judaism's greatest loss of the year was the death
of Professor Moritz Lazarus at Meran, on April 13.
A disorder of only slight importance occurred in the neighborhood of Strasburg where Catholic electors rioted against
Protestants and Jews; the disorder was quelled at once, and
there was little damage, but it was followed by threats of
commercial boycott.
Upon the eve of 5663, France lost, in the tragic death of
Zola, one of its immortal champions of justice and freedom.
Perhaps the passing away of the man who had forced the
revision of the Dreyfus trial had much to do with the active
campaign which is being pushed by such men as Jaures and de
Pressense, for the reopening of that greatest of causes celebres.
Captain Dreyfus appealed to General Andre to open inquiry
into new facts which, he maintaiued, had come into his possession; an energetic agitation is being set on foot to force the
hands of the ministry, while the great work of Eeinach on the
Dreyfus case is moving steadily towards completion. The antiSemites, meantime, have neglected no opportunity for slander
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and vilification. The Humbert swindle, the negotiations for
the Panama cana], the fabricated Saitaphernes crown, all
seemed good enough pretexts for far-fetched aspersions upon
the patriotism and the honesty of the Jews. When a committee was formed for defense against anti-Semitism, the fact
was triumphantly pointed to as proving the existence of the
mythical Jewish syndicate. There seems to be a depraved need
for a literature of trumped-up scandal. Such scenes as that at
the conversion of Gaston Pollonais prove the degeneracy and
shamelessness of French anti-Semitism. The present strained
relationship between church and state in France, the bitterness
created by the enforcement of the laws against religious associations can only have the effect of still further increasing
the existing prejudice, as it widens political chasms. As
against these deplorable circumstances there is evidence of
revived religious activity in the appointment, by the Consistoire, of a travelling rabbi, and in the institution of popular
lectures on Jewish subjects.
As we cross the channel we are soon made aware that we are
turning homeward. There is something of Anglo-Saxon manhood in the self-assertion with which we meet alike in the
Jew of England and in the Jew of America. There are the
same problems, too, of " alien " immigration and Ghetto overcrowding, and the ferment of religious earnestness in England
again and again avails itself of American precedent. The
Royal Alien Immigration Commission concluded its hearing
of testimony on May 21, having examined 184 witnesses in the
course of sessions which occupied 49 days; the q\iestion of the
benefits or injuries from alien immigration was gone over with
the utmost thoroughness; the greatest practicable freedom
was afforded those who wished to testify on both sides; not the
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faintest token of partiality could be charged to the methods of
the commissioners. A good deal of animosity was exhibited by
those who considered their interests injured by immigration,
the word " alien" proving, in most cases, a thin disguise for
Jew; but also much impartial praise was freely yielded to the
virtues of the Jewish immigrant by Gentiles who had come in
close contact with him. The Commission handed in its report
on August 11, embodying distinct recommendations to exclude
certain undesirable classes of immigrants. So far as the details of the report have become known, the restrictive measures proposed seem to be clearly modelled upon American
patterns, though they are thought to be somewhat severer.
There are able and loyal Jews in Parliament who will offer
strong opposition to any measure which might work unjust or
needless hardship. The alarms that have been sounded, even
by such influential publications as Blaekwood's Magazine, are
not likely to upset the sober balance of English statesmanship.
Another matter now before Parliament which is of vital interest to Anglo-Judaism, and may exercise paramount influence on important aspects of the communal life is the proposed Education Bill, which has been the subject of heated
controversy. From such discussion of it as has been had in
competent Jewish circles it would appear that its adoption is
likely to inure to financial and educational benefits, which
might be counterbalanced by some loss of control. The Jewish
Colonization Association (the so-called IKA), petitioned Parliament for permission to alter the objects of its foundation
so as to include certain new lines of work, mostly educational.
The petition, which was strongly combated by Israel Zangwill,
was acquiesced in.
A very conspicuous place in the Anglo-Jewish public life of
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the past year is occupied by Sir Marcus Samuel, the fifth
among the Jewish Lord Mayors of London. The contrast
which the city of London presents, in absolute freedom from
prejudice, to almost all the other capitals of the world, attaches
perennial novelty to the recurring election of Jewish Lord
Mayors; and the marked personality and frank Jewish loyalty
of Sir Marcus Samuel tend to lift his mayoralty still further
out of the common. He struck the keynote of his policy by
directing that the old-time Lord Mayor's Show should take its
way through the Jewish quarters. To the Guildhall banquet, with the consent of his Sheriffs, he openly declined to
invite the Eoumanian Minister. In the support he gave to
the building of synagogues, in his attendance at service in
full state, at his reception of President Loubet, on all these
occasions he combined the most perfect tact with outspoken
Jewish manhood. A notable event of the year which was
similarly fitted to foster legitimate Jewish pride was the
solemn military Hanukah service in which Lord Eoberts,
Chief-in-Command of the English army, participated.
The Kishineff disaster found the Anglo-Jewish community
divided as to the proper public policy to be pursued. The
prevailing attitude of the leaders was one deprecative of public
meetings of protest as futile and liable to arouse the anger of
the Eussian Government, which might fall the more heavily
upon our co-religionists; moreover, Sir Marcus Samuel had
unofficial assurances from Eussian diplomacy to the effect that
alleviations would be granted if the English Jews abstained
from public agitation. The masses clamored for some open
expression of indignation, and were supported by those who
distrusted Eussian promises, and preferred to arouse and
summon public sentiment. The favorable moment for en-
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listing the aid of the heads of English culture in united protest was passed in controversy; the leadership had been taken
by American Jewry.
I n - t h e religious life of Anglo-Judaism 5663 records a
number of important advances. The Jewish Religious Union
completed its critical first year amid signs of health and progress; it had weathered furious attacks in the Jewish press,
the condemnation of the Chief Eabbi, excited debates of the
United Synagogue, the withdrawal of some of its own founders; it had declined the invitation of the Reform Synagogue
(Professor Marks's congregation, Berkeley Street) to worship,
under certain restrictions, in its building; it had consistently
adhered to its first purpose of creating forms and facilities
of worship which might bring back to allegiance those who had
been estranged by the antiquated methods of the English Synagogue. It has not succeeded in allaying the fears of many
who acknowledge the sincere spirituality of these Reformers,
but apprehend a disruption, and scent departure from Jewish
ways; it has proved its earnestness and vitality in the number
of able workers it has enlisted, in the religious enthusiasm it
has called forth. A society which can place eighteen members upon its pulpit, of whom all except three are laymen, has
proved itself possessed of abounding vitality and enthusiasm.
It is natural that American Jews should follow with a lively
interest this effort in the direction of modern Reform which
would hardly have been possible without the previous example
of similar struggles and achievements here.
Another token of awakening earnestness presents itself in
the flourishing condition and the useful work of the Jewish
Literary Societies, in the conference of their Union, and in
the publication of their valuable Annual. The election, as
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President of this Union, of so eminent a literary man as
Israel Gollancz, Secretary of the British Academy, speaks well
for the active participation of the highest Anglo-Jewish culture in distinctly Jewish work. The Union of Jewish Literary
Societies inaugurated at Eamsgate a summer meeting somewhat in emulation of our own Jewish Chautauqua, whose
Chancellor, Eev. Dr. Henry Berkowitz, brought greetings from
the elder society. We have thus another link added to the
chain of parallel work, in publication, historical investigation,
woman's organization, which is bringing English and American Judaism into ever closer friendship and co-operation. Tn
connection with this we should not fail to give due importance
to the final determination of the Council of Jews' College to
accord a Kabbinical diploma (ntoin mnn ) to those who shall
have passed a certain official examination. There was a time
when the Chief Rabbi stood in solitary grandeur among a
hierarchy of mere ministers, when graduates of Jews' College
went into Poland for the coveted authorization as full-fledged
rabbis; insignificant as this measure may seem, despite the
wrangling which preceded it, it means a breach in the innermost citadel of the rigidity of the Anglo-Jewish " church."
Of the English colonies, South Africa and Canada attracted
the attention of the Jewish student at various times during the
year. In obedience to certain regulations which demand that
immigrants must be able to write in characters of some European language, the authorities at Cape Town refused to permit
the landing of a shipload of Russian Jews; later on, the Attorney-General of the colony decided that Yiddish was to
be recognized as a European language. The Dominion of
Canada, while offering to desirable immigrants allotments of
land and even the facilities for reaching it, at the same time
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re-echoed the cry against the dangerous " alien." A perplexing situation arose in the province of Quebec through the
decision of Justice Davidson of the Superior Court that " Jewish children have no legal right to be educated in the public
schools " of the province. The difficulty which had been created by a complicated system of denominational panels was
temporarily solved by a measure of compromise.
In our own country, 5663 carried over three inheritances
from its predecessor: the Eoumanian Note of Secretary
Hay was to be tested as to its efficiency, the Committee
of citizens was to report on the " Chief Eabbi" funeral riot,
the anthracite strike proceeded on its menacing way. While
the exaltation of the holiday-mood was stimulated by the
noble humanitarianism of American diplomacy, while the
report of the citizens' committee satisfied every righteous
expectation, the atmosphere, through one of the greatest of
modern strikes, was laden with excitement and apprehension,
which, after some keen suffering on the part of the poor,
found grateful relief in the final arbitration.
Perhaps in no previous year has the welfare and progress
of our seminaries dominated the interest of the Jewish public
to an equal degree. In the Hebrew Union College the increasing feebleness of the temporary President, Professor Dr. M.
Mielziner, rendered the difficult problem of selecting a permanent successor of Dr. Wise the more acute; it was solved by
the unanimous election of Kev. Dr. Kaufmann Kohler, about
the very time of Dr. Mielziner's demise. The eulogy of cordial
esteem which followed the cortege of the gentle scholar coincided with the chorus of approval which greeted the appointment of the learned radical. It was universally felt that Dr.
Kohler was the logical choice for the delicate task of pre-
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siding over the Keform Seminary. While his selection tended
to unite all ranks of Eeform, while the two seminaries are
now under the guidance of two great scholars, united in personal friendship and learned co-operation, there has yet been
a stronger accentuation of Eeform principles, due to the outspoken Eeform proclivities of Dr. Kohler. A new impetus
was given to the completion of the Isaac M. Wise Memorial
Fund by the appointment of Eev. Dr. Jos. Krauskopf as
Director-General. Under his energetic lead the fund
mounted rapidly towards the sum needed, until the needs of
Kishineff and the approach of summer dictated a temporary
suspension of the propaganda.
At the commencement, on June 27, nine graduates were
sent forth, of whom some have gone abroad for further studies,
others have entered upon the work of their profession.
In the history of the Jewish Theological Seminary, also,
5663 will ever he accounted a notable year. It saw the inauguration of Professor Solomon Schechter, made memorable
by an elaborate address; it completed the endowment as contemplated at the reorganization; the edifice donated by Jacob
H. Schiff was dedicated with appropriate ceremonies; branches
were organized in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and New York
to provide a needed increase of revenue. A helpful step was
taken by a sister institution, the Gratz College, when it made
special provision for the preparation of students wishing
to enter the Jewish Theological Seminary; a broad policy
was initiated by the latter in the invitation of lecturers and
the selection of theses for competitive treatment.
In connection with this another of Jacob H. SchifPs enlightened acts of liberality calls for mention: the Harvard
Semitic Museum, which was dedicated in February, was made
possible almost solely through his munificence.
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That problems of Jewish scholarship and religious education should engage so much of our attention and liberality
is a cheering proof of intellectual advancement, while the
serious perplexities created by the tidal wave of immigration
are still clamoring for our utmost exertions. More perhaps
than ever before have the eyes of the country been centered
upon the New York community and its gigantic struggle with
the evils of Ghetto cramping. Here the B'nai B'rith and the
Kemoval Committee have done yeoman's work, assisted by the
more or less active sympathy of lodges and communities all
over the country. It is a work of incalculable difficulty, which
will be systematized only after long experience. Meanwhile,
under the process of Americanization and with closer mutual
acquaintance, East Side and West Side are drawing ever
nearer to appreciation of and co-operation with each other.
The East Side is emboldened to criticise the methods by which
it is to be elevated, and yet recognizes its duty of helping in
the work. The West Side is entering more sympathetically
into the individuality of the recent immigrant; it seeks to
understand him from his point of view;' it accords him a
measure of recognition in his independent charities. Worthy
pride is cultivated in the immigrant by such united action
as was taken in honor of Baron de Giinzburg, by the prompt
and active collection for the relief of Kishineff. That a
Yiddish actor, like J. P. Adler, should have been thought
worthy of starring on the American stage cannot but encourage his brothers of Eussian parentage in a legitimate consciousness of their worth and possibilities.
One great aspect of the whole vast immigration problem
is thus nearing solution: the bringing together, under the
auspices of American culture, of the diverse elements that
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make up American Jewdom. With what unexpected dangers
this problem is fraught becomes startlingly clear in the imperative need which has arisen in New York (as it did in
London) for a Jewish protectory. However indifferent we
might be to other distinctions in which the Jew once gloried,
we cannot afford, without a determined effort, to allow to pass
from us the splendid record for the lowest rate of criminality
which has so long been the Jew's rightful boast among all
nationalities. It is a most cheering sign that an American of
the younger generation, Mr. Louis Marshall, should have
indicated (at the Chautauqua Summer Assembly) the way
towards redemption: that there is need of religious education
for the children of the immigrant, to steady the unformed
character against the dangerous shock of a radical revolution
in environment.
The problem of religious education seemed to push to the
forefront in the public discussions of the year. Woman's
Council, Sabbath School Union, Zionists, Eabbinical Conference, Chautauqua all vied with one another in earnest deliberation on methods and aims of religious teaching. That
there is a full realization of the imperfections of our present
Sabbath School there can be no manner of doubt. Whether
reports, debates, and papers will bring about the necessary
yielding of unbridled individualism, a practical uniting of
forces, remains to be seen.
There is, however, an undeniable current setting in towards
wider and closer organization. Whatever the proximate cause
may be, it is no mere coincidence that the demand for an
American Jewish Congress, for a Jewish Synod, for international Jewish conferences, should be repeatedly heard on
occasions when men are impatient for permanent solutions.
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The call for an American Jewish Congress which was proposed at the Triennial Convention of the Council of Jewish
Women at Baltimore, which was favored by the Council of
the Union of American Hebrew Congregations at St. Louis,
was finally rejected as untimely by the Executive Board of
that Union after a number of important bodies had signified
their willingness to attend such a congress. A conference of
Southern Rabbis met and organized in Vicksburg, Miss., with
an attendance of seventeen rabbis.
At the Convention of the Central Conference of American
Rabbis in Detroit the formation of an American synod was
championed from several quarters. A far-reaching measure
in the direction of organization was the appropriation, by the
Executive Board of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, of the sum of $5000, for circuit work among country
communities, Rabbi Geo. Zepin, of Kalamazoo, Mich., being
appointed circuit director. Further symptoms of an earnest
spirit of co-operation were exhibited in a movement to enlist
young men for congregational participation which appealed to
the congregational union for guidance, also in a noteworthy
prevalence of solemn Union Thanksgiving services in various
parts of the country. The Sabbath discussion of the Central
Conference culminated in strong resolutions for the maintenance of the historic Sabbath.
There remains to be mentioned an incident from the Northwest, which is instructive, in its province, as to the drift of
the day: the Supreme Court of the State of Nebraska decided,
on the question of reading the Bible in public schools, that
" there cannot be religious exercises in a public school which
are not sectarian."
In passing in review the striking and significant happenings
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of 5663 in country after country, we have left out of account
the one Jewish movement in which members of all Jewish
communities are bound together, Zionism. There having been
no international Zionist convention in 1902, there was held,
in its stead, a conference of the Greater Actions Committee
in Vienna (October 29). The principal features of this
meeting consisted in the reports which indicated much expansion of membership and resources during the preceding year;
it was proposed to form a statistical bureau and to establish
a Jewish High School in Palestine. In this country a Shekel
Day was instituted successfully, an active propaganda was
carried on, accompanied by public controversies, which, now
and then, attracted wide attention; the convention of the
Federatiqn of American Zionists in Pittsburg was well attended, and though disappointed of the promised participation
of some eminent speakers, was lifted upon a wave of enthusiasm. The Eussian Government was at various times rumored
to be hostile to the movement. The Eastern despotism has
not yet taken a definite attitude towards a factor which has
financial, political, and social aspects, the one or the other
of which may not fit into the Russian policy.
It is not easy to sum up in a few words the place which
a particular year is likely to occupy in the checkered and
unending career of Judaism. 5663 brought its stunning shock
in the barbarism of Kishineff; it evoked, through the very
outburst, the indignant protest of civilization, and demonstrated, in the sensitive sulking of Russia, the growing power
of public opinion. It gave to American Jewry the hegemony
of the world's Judaism by proving that American Jews have
the courage and the public spirit openly to espouse the cause
of their brothers, as they stand ready to make the sacrifice
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involved in keeping open to the Jewish refugee this last asylum
of the oppressed; they not only showed themselves possessed
of the statesmanship which is equal to a great emergency,
but they demonstrated that they have a Government back of
them for which the resentment of the greatest of autocracies
has no terrors, that they are equally sure of the active sympathy of their best fellow-citizens whenever they turn to them
in a humanitarian cause. Like every other great sorrow
Kishineff has brought the Jews of the world nearer to one another ; perhaps it has brought the urgency of the Jewish problem to the attention of the entire world as has no previous
event in modern history.
In the meantime Western Judaism progresses in thoroughness and aimfulness of organization, advances in the realization of its duty towards the Eastern brother in his medieval
darkness, considers religious and social problems in a spirit of
earnestness and calm deliberation, and looks out with hope and
with a proud consciousness of Jewish identity to that final
ascendancy of humane ideals for which our prophets have
laid the foundation, and to the consummation of which Jewish martyrdom and Jewish heroism are certain to contribute in
conspicuous measure.
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF RABBIS AND CANTORS OFFICIATING IN THE UNITED STATES
The following list, which, except as noted below, is compiled from information furnished by the subjects of the
sketches, contains the names of Rabbis Emeritus and of Rabbis
and Cantors at present officially connected with congregations
in the United States. In May, 1903, circulars with blank
forms enclosed were addressed to 694 persons. In July, a
second circular was sent to such of them as had not responded
to the first. Among the replies to these requests for biographical data, 26 were received from persons no longer connected
with congregations in an official capacity and from persons
whose services are on occasions voluntarily given. These two
classes of persons do not come within the scope of the present
list. The Post Office authorities reported that 68 of the
persons addressed could riot be located. A few were reported
deceased, some had left the country, etc., and 247 of those addressed were not heard from, directly or indirectly.
A few insertions have been made by the editor in the case
of Rabbis and Cantors who made no reply to the request for
information, but whose name, address, position, etc., were
known to him definitely. Such insertions are indicated by
an asterisk (*).
The Hebrew word Yeshibah has been rendered by " Talmudical College."
The replies under the heading " Degree" were available
for the purposes of this list only when the institution conferring the degree was mentioned.
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It should be noted that although Jews' College, London,
England, has existed since 1856, until the present year the
degree of Eabbi, or the Eabbinical authorization, has not been
conferred upon its graduates by the English Eabbinate.
Aaron, Israel. Rabbi of Temple Beth Zion, Buffalo, N. Y. Born
November 20, 1859, at Lancaster, Pa. Son of Moses Aaron. Educated at public schools of Lancaster; University of Cincinnati
(B. A.); and Hebrew Union College (Rabbi and D. D.). Was
Rabbi at Fort Wayne, Ind. Baccalaureate Orator Hebrew Union
College and also Buffalo High Schools, 1902. Member of Council
of University Club, Buffalo. Publications: Translation of Delitzsch's "Colors in the Talmud; " of Stern's "Woman in the
Talmud;" and of portions of Bachya's " Choboth Haleboboth."
Articles in the Jewish and the secular press. Address: 748 Auburn Av., Buffalo, N. Y.
*Abelson, Alter. Rabbi of Congregation Bnai Sholaum, Brooklyn, N. Y. Holds Rabbinical diploma of the Jewish Theological
Seminary of America.
Abramowitz, Jacob. Cantor of Congregation Sons of Halberstamm, Philadelphia, Pa. Born March 15, 1867, in Russia. Son
of Jacob Baruch Abramowitz. Educated at Odessa, Russia. Held
positions in Chicago, 111., and Buffalo, N. Y. Address: 958 North
Marshall, Philadelphia, Pa.
Agat, Isaiah. Rabbi (since 1890) of Congregation Moses Monteflore, Chicago, 111. Born May 25, 1859, in Candau, Courland, Russia. Son of Moses Agat. Educated at Talmudical Colleges of
Sager, Government Kovno, and Bielostok, Government Minsk,
Russia; under Dr. I. Hildesheimer, Berlin; at Gymnasium in
Libau, Courland; and Northwestern University, Evanston, 111.
(B. Ph., 1898). Government teacher in Riga, Russia, 1879-1884;
and Rabbi in New Haven, Conn., 1886-1888, and in San Francisco,
Cal., 1888-1890. Address: 554 North Robey, Chicago, 111.
Alexander, David. Rabbi of Temple Israel, Paducah, Ky.
Born December 7, 1878, at Brooklyn, N. Y. Son of Harris Alexander. B. H. L. and Rabbi, Hebrew Union College; B. A., University of Cincinnati. Address: 810 Jefferson, Paducah, Ky.
AmduT, Bernard I*. Rabbi and Cantor (since 1893) of Congregation Ahavath Sholom Beth Aron, Buffalo, N. Y. Born July
15, 1869, in Russia. Son of Rabbi Israel Amdur. Educated in
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Russia, Germany, and America. Rabbinical diplomas granted by
Rabbi P. Rabinowitz and Rabbi Dr. Solomon, Dvinsk, Russia.
Held positions in Riga, Dvinsk, and Kovno, Russia. Address:
23 Beck, Buffalo, N. Y.
Anspacher, Abraham Samuel. Rabbi of Congregation Ansche
Chesed, Scranton, Pa. Born June 28, 1877, New York City. Son
of Samuel Anspacher. Educated at high school, Cincinnati, Ohio;
University of Cincinnati (B. A.); and Hebrew Union College
(B. H. L. and Rabbi). Was Rabbi in Binghamton, N. Y. Address:
845 Monroe Av., Scranton, Pa.
Armhold, William. Cantor (since 1865) of the Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel, Philadelphia, Pa. Born June 17, 1829,
at Schluchtern, Baden, Germany. Son of Rabbi Joseph Armhold.
Educated at Eppingen and Karlsruhe, Baden. Graduate of the
Teachers' Seminary, Karlsruhe, 1850. Held positions in Phillippsburg, Baden, 1850-1853; and in Pittsburg, Pa., 1854-1865. Founder
of the Reform Congregation Rodeph Shalom, Pittsburg, Pa.; and
founder and first President of Jericho Lodge, Independent Order
B'nai B'rith. Honorary Member Msennerchor Singing Society,
Philadelphia, Pa. Address: 1723 North 16th, Philadelphia, Pa.
Aronin, ~L. Rabbi of Congregation Adath Israel, Sheboygan,
Wis. Born July 20, 1849, in Russia, and educated there. Son of
^Chayim Ydel Aronin. Rabbinical diploma conferred by the
"Rabbi of Kovno. Occupied a position as Rabbi in Russia. Address: 1322 North 12th, Sheboygan, Wis.
Asher, Joseph Mayor. Rabbi and Preacher of Congregation
B'nai Jeshurun, New York City. Born September 23, 1872, at
Manchester, England. Son of Rabbi Aaron Asher and Betsey
Jacobs. Educated at the Jews' Schools, grammar school, technical school, and Owens College (Victoria University, B. A., M. A.),
Manchester; Trinity College, Cambridge University; Bonn University, Germany; and Talmudical College, Kovno, Russia. University Scholar, Victoria University, and Langton Fellow, Owens College, Victoria University. Rabbinical diploma granted by Rabbi
David Tevel Katzenellenbogen, Suvalki, Russia. Professor of
Homiletics at Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and in
charge of the Department of Philosophy and Ethics at the same
institution. For four years Judicial Assessor for all Jewish cases
in the Manchester courts. Organized the Manchester Talmud
Torah Schools. Publications: Reviews in the International Journal of Ethics and the Critical Review. Address: 136 East 65th,
New York City.
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Ashinsky, Aaron Mordecai. Rabbi of Congregations Beth
Hamedrash Hagodol and Beth Jacob, Pittsburg, Pa. Born February, 1866, at Reygrod, Poland. Son of Nachman Ashinsky. Educated at Kovno and Stavisk. Rabbinical diplomas conferred by
Rabbi Hayim Leb Rottenberg, Stavisk, and Rabbi Eliezer Simchah
Rabinowitch, Kalwarya, Poland. Held positions in Syracuse,
N. Y.; Detroit, Mich.; and Montreal, Can. Appointed Jewish
Chaplain by the Canadian Government. Address: 1204 Colwell,
Pittsburg, Pa.
Bachrach, David H. Chief Rabbi of Congregation Sons of
Zion and all the orthodox congregations, Providence, R. I. Born
Tishri 21, 5624, in Russia. Son of Wolf Elia Bachrach. Educated under the Rabbi of Kutno, Poland, and at the Talmudical
Colleges of Volosin and Kovno, Russia. Rabbinical diplomas conferred by the Rabbis of Kovno, Brisk, and Vilna, in Russia. Held
positions in Cechanovez, Russia, and Trenton, N. J. Address: 17
Smith, Providence, R. I.
Barnstein, Henry. Rabbi of Congregation Beth Israel, Houston, Texas. Born August 23, 1S68, at Dover, England. Son of
Rabbi Isidore Barnstein (Rabbi in Germany, Belgium, and
England). Educated at Jews' College, London; University College,
London; University of London; Monteflore College, Ramsgate;
and University of Heidelberg (Ph.D.). Rabbinical diploma conferred by Haham Moses Gaster, London. Was Hebrew instructor at St. Augustine's Church School, Kilburn; German instructor London School Board. Represents the third generation of
Rabbis. Publications: " The Targum of Onkelos according to
the Yemen MSS." Collaborated with Professor Gustaf A. Dalman
on his Aramaisch Neu-Hebraisches Worterbuch. Contributor to
the Jewish Quarterly Review, Menorah, Jewish Chronicle, American Hebrew, Israel, and Reform Advocate. Address: 1801 Rusk
Av., Houston, Tex.
Baron, Wolff. Cantor of Congregation B'nai Israel, Paterson,
N. J. Born in 1859 in Russia, and educated there. Held positions in London, Eng.; Boston, Mass.; and New York City. Address: Bridge Street, Paterson, N. J.
Bauer, Sol. H. Rabbi of Congregation Anshe Emeth, Chicago,
111. Born January 1, 1863, in Poland. Son of Abraham Jacob
Bauer. Educated in Stettin, Germany. Rabbinical diploma
granted by Rabbi I. Trunk, Kutno, Poland. Was Rabbi at Jacobshagen and Wronke, Germany; Hamilton, Ohio; Schenectady,
N. Y.; and of Moses Monteflore Congregation and First Hungarian
Congregation, Chicago, 111. Address: 568 N. Lincoln, Chicago, 111.
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Bamn, Solomon. Cantor (since 1894) of Congregation Beth
Israel Bikur Cholim, New York City. Born September 13, 1868,
at Sebes, Hungary. Son of Lazar Baum. Educated at Budapest,
Hungary. Cantor's diploma conferred by Professor Moritz Friedman, of the Budapest Conservatory. Officiated as Cantor in
Europe, and as Rabbi and Cantor in Congregation Beth Jacob,
Brooklyn, N. Y. Address: 214 East 79th, New York City.
Becker, Ferdinand. Minister of Congregation Zion, Philadelphia, Pa. Born July 9, 1851, in Bavaria, Germany. Son of
Leopold Becker. Graduate of the Seminary of Kaiserslautern,
Rhenish Palatinate, Germany. Was.Rabbi of Congregation Bene
Jsrael, Keokuk, la., for five years; Rodef Sholom, Wabash, Ind.,
for five years; Anshai Emeth, Peoria, 111., for five years; and
Anshai Emeth, Pine Bluff, Ark., for twelve years. Address: 2440
North Garnet, Philadelphia, Pa.
Benjamin, Raphael. Associate Rabbi (since 1902) of Temple
Beth Elohim, Brooklyn, N. Y. Born June 19, 1846, in London,
Eng. Son of Elias Benjamin and Mary Lazarus. Educated at
Jews' Free School, London; University of London (B. A.); and
University of Melbourne, Australia (M. A.). Rabbinical diplomas
conferred by Dr. Nathan M. Adler, London; Rabbi Samson Rausuk; and Rev. A. L. Green. Doctor of Jewish Law for Australia
(1874). Rabbi of Melbourne Hebrew Congregation, 1874; Mound
Street Temple, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1882; Fifteenth Street Temple,
New York City, 1889. Rothschild Scholar, 1860. Associate-Editor
Journal of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History; Governor
and Examiner Hebrew Union College; Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science; Secretary Ninth District
of the Charity Organization Society, New York; Secretary New
York Board of Jewish Ministers. Address: 662 Bedford Av.,
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Benmoscne, Herman. Rabbi of Congregation Beth-El, Norfolk, Va. Born Shebat 3, 5618 (1858), at Cairo, Egypt. Educated at KSnigsberg, Germany, and London, Eng. Was Rabbi of
Spital Square Synagogue, London. Address: Norfolk, Va.
•Bergman, Moise. Rabbi of Congregation Emanuel, Grand
Rapids, Mich. Rabbi, 1901, Hebrew Union College.
Berkowitz, Henry. Rabbi (since 1892) of Congregation Rodeph Shalom, Philadelphia, Pa. Born March 18, 1857, at Pittsburg, Pa. Son of Louis Berkowitz. Educated at the congregational and public schools of Pittsburg; Cornell University, 18721873; at University of Cincinnati (B. L., 1881); and Hebrew Union
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College (B. H. L., Rabbi, 1883, and D. D.); studied law, 1873-1876.
Rabbi of Congregations Shaarai Shamayim, Mobile, Ala., 18831888, and B'nai Jehudah, Kansas City, Mo., 1888-1892. Pounder
Public Bureau of Charities, Kansas City, Mo.; founder and Chancellor Jewish Chautauqua Society; first Secretary Central Conference of American Rabbis; Alumni representative upon the
Board of Governors Hebrew Union College; first President Alumni
Association Hebrew Union College. Publications: "Judaism and
the Social Question;" "Union Hebrew Reader" (I and I I ) ;
" Kiddush or Sabbath Sentiment in the H o m e ; " "'The Open
Bible" (I and I I ) ; "Bible Ethics." Address: 1539 North 33rd,
Philadelphia, Pa.
Bernstein, Bernard. Rabbi of Congregation Anshai Kanesseth Israel, Chicago, 111. Born September 12, 1836, in Russia, and
educated there. Son of David Bernstein. Address: 178 Maxwell,
Chicago, 111.
Bernstein, Samuel. Rabbi of Congregation Benai Israel, Ansonia, Conn. Born July 25, 1861, in Russia. Son of Abraham
Bernstein. Was Rabbi at Pottsville, Pa. Address: 4 Colburn,
Ansonia, Conn.
Blatt, Joseph. Rabbi of Congregation B'nai Israel, Columbus,
Ga. Born December 16, 1878, in Hungary. Son of Max Blatt.
B. H. L. and Rabbi, Hebrew Union College; B. A. University of
Cincinnati. Address: Columbus, Ga.
Bloch, Jacob. Rabbi (since 1900) of Congregation Emanu-El,
Spokane, Wash. Born August 26, 1846, in Bohemia. Son of
Moses Bloch. Educated at Pilsen and University of Prague
(M. A.). Rabbinical diploma conferred by Rabbi Dr. Saul Isaac
Kaempf; Rabbi M. Bloch; and Rabbi Dr. M. Deutsch. LL. D., Oregon University. Held positions in Pine Bluff, Ark. (to 1872);
Little Rock, Ark. (to 1880); Sacramento, Cal. (to 1884); and
Portland, Ore. (to 1900). Address: 1718 Pacific Av., Spokane,
Wash.
Bogen, Joseph, LL. D. Rabbi of Mount Sinai Congregation,
Texarkana, Ark. Born in Prussia a little over sixty years ago.
Secular education at different schools in Silesia. Rabbinical
diploma conferred by Rabbis Jacob Landsberg and Hyam Cohen.
Was Rabbi in the Congregations of Keokuk, Iowa, and Greenville, Miss. Author of " Meditations for the New Year and Atonement Days." Published (in conjunction with Rabbi George Solomon) "Essays on the Origin of Christianity." Address: Texarkana, Ark.
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Bottigheimer, Seymour G. Rabbi of Congregation B'nai Israel, Natchez, Miss. Born at Fredericks Hall, Louisa Co., Va.
Son of Elias Bottigheimer. B. H. L. and Rabbi, Hebrew Union College; B. A., University of Cincinnati. Was Rabbi of Congregation
B'nai Yeshurun, Des Moines, Iowa. Married Emma Fruhauf,
Cincinnati, August 11, 1896. Address: 211 South Commerce,
Natchez, Miss.
Braude, Abraham Samuel. Rabbi of Congregation Ohave Sholem Mariampol, Chicago, 111. Born August 9, 1851, at Mitau,
Courland, Russia. Son of Selig Braude. Educated at the Talmudical College of Mitau. Rabbinical diploma granted by Rabbi
Hirsch Rabinowitz, Kovno, Russia. Was Rabbi at Mitau. Came
to America in 1891. Publication: " Beth Abraham," commentary
on Talmud and Midrash. Address: 146 Johnson, Chicago, 111.
Braunfeld, Julius. Cantor of Temple Sinai, New Orleans, La.
Born July 17, 1863, at Sajo Szt. Peter, Hungary. Son of Ignacz
Braunfeld. Educated at Budapest and Vienna. Was Cantor of
Temple Beth Elohim, Brooklyn, N. Y., and of Temple B'ne Jeshurun, Milwaukee, Wis. Address: 1432 Octavia, New Orleans, La.
Breuner, Nathan. Rabbi of Congregation Bnei Israel, Philadelphia, Pa. Born July, 1860, in Russia. Son of Solomon Breuner. Educated at Kovno, Russia. Rabbinical diploma conferred
by Rabbi Abraham M. Rabinowitz. Held a position in Russia.
Came to America in 1893. Publication: "Hopes of Israel" (Hebrew). Address: 2853 Weikel, Philadelphia, Pa.
Brill, Abram. Rabbi of Hebrew Union Congregation, Greenville, Miss. Born May 18, 1876, at Ogdensburg, N. Y. Son of
Mordecai Joseph Brill and Lottie Tumim. Educated at Syracuse
grammar schools; Rochester and Cincinnati high schools; University of Cincinnati (B. A.); and Hebrew Union College (B. H.
L. and Rabbi). Was Rabbi of Congregation Beth El, Helena, Ark.
Address: 519 Washington Av., Greenville, Miss.
Brodsky, Hyman. Rabbi (since 1899) of Congregation Anshe
Russia, Newark, N. J. Born August 11, 1852, in Bielostok, Russia. Son of Noah Brodsky. Educated at Talmudical Colleges of
Slonim and Volosin, Russia. Rabbinical diplomas conferred by
Rabbi Hirsch Leb Berlin, Volosin; Rabbi Jacob Widrewitz, Moscow; Rabbi B. L. Levinthal, Philadelphia, Pa.; and Rabbi Samuel
Wein, New York. Held positions in New York City (1889);
Philadelphia, Pa. (1893); and Cleveland, Ohio (1897). Was instrumental in establishing Sheltering Homes, Talmud Torah
Schools, Free Schools, Free Libraries, Building Associations,
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Loan Associations, Chevra Kadisha, and Zionist Societies in New
York City, Philadelphia, Pa., Cleveland, Ohio, Newark, N. J.,
Providence, R. I., and Troy, N. Y. Pounder and editor of the
Stadtzeitung, Philadelphia, and contributor to the press. Address: 91 Broome, Newark, N. J.
Bromson, Abraham. Rabbi (since 1882) of Beth Hamedrash
Hagodol, Omaha, Neb. Born and educated in Russia. Son of
Heyman Bromson. Rabbinical diploma received from Rabbi Hyman. Address: 1110 South 13th, Omaha, Neb.
Brown, A. B. J. Rabbi of Congregation Shaarey Zedek, San
Francisco, Cal. Born June 12, 1854, at Posen, Prussia. Son of
Joseph Brown. Rabbinical diploma awarded by Rabbis N. Streisand, Elkan Cohen, and Henry Vidaver. Held positions in Seattle, Wash., and San Jose and Oakland, Cal. Address: 1483 O'Farrell, San Francisco, Cal.
Brown, Wolf. Cantor (since 1888) of Congregation Mount
Zion, New York City. Born December 14, 1858, at Lomzha, Russia. Son of Boruch Meyer Brown and Sarah Brzoza. Educated
at Warsaw, Poland. Address: 26 East 106th, New York City.
*Cahan, Morris. Rabbi of Congregation Children of Israel,
Augusta, Ga. Rabbi, 1903, Hebrew Union College.
Cah.11, David. Cantor of Temple Rodeph Sholom, New York
City. Born in 1852, at Cracow, Austria. Son of Moses Jacob
Cahn. Educated at Cracow and Vienna. Diploma conferred by
Rabbi Simon Schreiber, Cracow. Came to America in 1871. Was
Cantor of Congregation Adath Israel, New York City. Has composed several Jewish services. Address: 72 East 82d, New York
City.
Calisch., Edward IT. Rabbi (since 1891) of Congregation Beth
Ahaba, Richmond, Va. Born June 23, 1865, at Toledo, Ohio. Son
of Henry Calisch and Rebecca Van Norden. Educated at high
school, Cincinnati, Ohio; University of Cincinnati (B. A.); Hebrew
Union College (B. H. L. and Rabbi); and University of Virginia
(M. A.). Rabbi at Peoria, 111., 1887-1891. Publications: " A
Child's Bible" (a school history); "A Book of Prayer; " essays,
poems, etc. Address: 1036 West Grace, Richmond, Va.
Caiman, Adolf. Minister of Congregation Ez Chaim of Yorkville, New York City. Born February 22, 1839, at Hamburg, Germany. Son of Kalmar Caiman and Betty Friedburg. Educated
at Hamburg, Berlin, and Frankfort on the Main. Was Rabbi of
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Congregations Agudath Jesharim, Atereth Israel, and Beth Israel
Bikur Cholim, New York City. Address: 1240 Lexington Av.,
New York City.
Cantor, I. Minister of Congregation Anshe Sholem, Canton,
Ohio. Born and educated in Poland. Son of Nathan Cantor.
Diploma granted by Rabbi Jacob Joseph, New York City. Address: 1014 South Cherry, Canton, Ohio.
Caro, Avigdor. Rabbi of Congregation B'ne Jeshurun, Milwaukee, Wis. Born September 19, 1856, at Budapest, Hungary.
Son of Mordechai Caro. Educated at Gutstadt, Prussia; Talmudical College in Poland; and the Hildesheimer Seminary, Berlin. Rabbinical diplomas conferred by Rabbi Is. Caro, Zempelburg, Germany; Rabbi Dr. I. Hildesheimer, Berlin; and Rabbi
Streisand, Bromberg. Was Rabbi at Quincy, 111., and Philadelphia, Pa. Descended from a family of Rabbis. Address: Milwaukee, Wis.
Chapman, Edward Maurice. Rabbi and Preacher (since 1900)
of Congregation Shaarai Shamayim, Schenectady, N. Y. Born
February 20, 1854, at London, Eng. Son of Maurice Chapman.
Educated at Jews' College, London. Rabbi of Congregation Beth
Israel, Hartford, Conn., 1878-1880; Temple Israel, Brooklyn, N. Y.,
1880-1885; Temple Emanu-El, Dallas, Texas, 1885-1897; and
Ansche Chesed, Scranton, Pa., 1897-1900. Address: 1226 State,
Schenectady, N. Y.
Cohen, Henry. Rabbi (since 1888) of Congregation B'nai Israel, Galveston, Texas. Born April 7, 1863. Son of David
Cohen. Educated at London, Eng., in the Jews' Hospital, under
the Rev. John Chapman; Jews' College Evening Classes, under
Dr. Friedlander; and the Beth Hamedrash, under Dayan Spiers.
Rabbi of the Amalgamated Congregation of Israelites, Kingston,
Jamaica, W. I., 1884-1885; Congregation Beth Israel, Woodville,
Miss., 1885-1888. Librarian of Texas Historical Society; and
member Executive Boards Jewish Publication Society of America
and American Jewish Historical Society, since their establishment. Was member of Central Relief Committee of the Galveston
Storm Sufferers. Publications: " Talmudic Sayings;" "Prayer
in Bible and Talmud " (translated from the German by Nahida
Remy); "Hygiene and Medicine of the Talmud;" "Evolution
of Jewish Disability; " " National Loyalty; " contributions to the
American Jewish Historical Society; articles in magazines, original and translations from French, German, and Spanish. Address: Galveston, Texas.
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Cohen, Julius. Minister of Congregation Benai Israel, Shamokin, Pa. Born in 1870, in Russia. Son of Isaac Cohen. Educated at Vilna, Russia. Held a position in Plymouth, Pa. Address: Shamokin, Pa.
. Cohen, Montague N. A. Rabbi (since 1903) of Temple Beth
Israel, Tacoma, Wash. Born May 19, 1877, at London, Eng. Son
of Eugene Cohen. Educated at Manchester (Eng.) Jews' School;
higher grades Board School; Jews' College, London (graduate);
and University College, London (graduate). Rabbi of Temple
Emanuel, Victoria, B. C, 1901-1903. Was Assistant Chaplain
Wormwood Scrubbs Prison, London. Now Associate Editor of Jewish Tribune. Contributor to English, Canadian, and American
press. Address: Tacoma, Wash.
Cohen, Simon Raymond. Rabbi (since 1899) of Congregation
Obef Sholom, Norfolk, Va. Born June 10, 1872, at Detroit, Mich.
Son of Solomon Cohen. Educated at Saginaw and Montreal public schools; Port Wayne and Cincinnati high schools; University
of Cincinnati (B. A.); and Hebrew Union College (B. H. L. and
Rabbi). Studied mechanical and civil engineering, and worked
at practical mechanics for three years. Chaplain during the
Spanish-American War. Publication: " Comparative Study of
Aristotle and Maimonides." Address: Granby Hotel.
Cohn, Abraham. Rabbi (since 1902) of Congregation Ansche
Israel, Newark, N. J. Born May 25, 1858, in Radin, Government
Vilna, Russia. Son of Louis M. Cohn. Educated at Eiseshok and
Vilna, Russia. Rabbinical diploma conferred by Rabbi Chaim
Widrewitz, Moscow, Russia, and Rabbi Samuel Wein, New York
City. Occupied positions in Congregations Ansche Valoisin,
New York City, for one year, and Ansche Warsaw, Newark, N. J.,
for four years. Address: 25 Boyd, Newark, N. J.
Cohn, Frederick. Rabbi (since 1896) of Congregation Achduth
Vesholom, Fort Wayne, Ind. Born August 24, 1873, at East Attleboro, Mass. Son of Joseph Cohn. Educated at public schools of
Providence, R. I.; University of Cincinnati (B. A. and M. A.);
and Hebrew Union College (B. H. L. and Rabbi, Valedictorian).
Winner of Phi Beta Kappa Key. Publications: Articles and
poems in the Jewish press. Address: 444 Old Fort Place, Fort
Wayne, Ind.
Currick, Max C. Rabbi (since 1901) of Congregation Anshe
Chesed, Erie, Pa. Born September 1, 1877, at Boston, Mass. Son
of Fishel Currick (Cohen). Educated at public schools of New
York City; College of the City of New York; Hebrew Orphan Asy-
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lum, New York City; University of Cincinnati (B. A.); and Hebrew Union College (B. H. L. and Rabbi). Rabbi at Fort Smith,
Ark., 1898-1901. Address: 18 East 8th, Erie, Pa.
*Davidson, D. Rabbi of Congregation Agudath Jesharim, New
York City. Address: 134 East 87th, New York City.
Deinard, Samuel N. Rabbi of Congregation Shaarei Tov,
Minneapolis, Minn. Born January 25, 1872, at Rossein, Russia.
Son of David Mendel Deinard. Educated at the Von Laemmel
School, Jerusalem; Jiidisches Lehrer Seminar, Cologne, Germany;
University of Pennsylvania (B. A.); De Pauw University (M. A.);
and University of Chicago. Was Rabbi in Terre Haute, Ind., and
Chicago, 111. Head of the Semitic Department, University of Minnesota. Contributor to the Hatt'hia, Reform Advocate, and Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures. Address: 331 Franklin Av., Minneapolis, Minn.
Diamond, Ignatz. Rabbi and Cantor (sicce 1900) of Congregation Bikur Cholim, Brooklyn, N. Y. Born May 8, 1862. Son of
Moritz Diamond. Educated in Hungary. Rabbinical diploma
conferred by Rabbis in Pressburg, Hungary. Officiated as Rabbi
in Hungary for fifteen years. Address: 63 Alabama Av., Brooklyn, N. Y.
Distillator, Samuel E. Cantor of Congregation Beth Tefillah,
New York City. Born May 21, 1848, at Vilna, Russia, and educated there. Son of Joshua Distillator. Surgeon Mohel. Positions held in Germany, England, and America. Address: 1835
Lexington Av., New York City.
Drachman, Bernard. Rabbi (since 1889) of Congregation
Zichron Ephraim, New York City. Born June 27, 1861, at New
York City. Son of Benjamin Drachman and Mathilde Stein.
Educated at high school, Jersey City, N. J.; Columbia College
(B. A. and M. A.); by Emanu-El Theological Seminary Association; at University of Breslau (Ph.D.); and Jewish Theological
Seminary at Breslau. Rabbinical diploma granted by the last and
Rabbi Dr. M. Joel, Breslau. Rabbi of Congregation Oheb Sholom,
Newark, N. J., 1886-1887; and of Congregation Beth Israel Bikur
Cholim, New York City, 1887-1889. Preceptor and Dean of Jewish
Theological Seminary of America, 1887-1902; Instructor of Bible
and Hebrew Grammar, and Reader in the Codes in the Jewish
Theological Seminary of America since 1902. Founder of Jewish
Endeavor Society, and Director of Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of the United States and Canada. Publications: " Die
Stellung und Bedeutung des Jehuda Hajjug in der Geschichte der
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hebraischen Grammatik; " " The Rabbi as Communal Worker "
(in "Activities of the R a b b i " ) ; " Neo-Hebraic Literature in
America " (in Seventh Biennial Report of the Jewish Theological
Seminary of America); translation of " The Nineteen Letters of
Ben Uziel." Contributor to the English and German Jewish, and
the Hebrew press. Address: 36 East 75th, New York City.
Drechsler, Sigmund. Rabbi (since 1886) of the Hungarian
Congregation Bne Jeschurun, Cleveland, Ohio. Born April 23,
1843, at Brezova, Hungary. Son of Isaac Drechsler. Educated
under Dr. I. Hildesheimer, at Eisenstadt, Hungary. Rabbinical
diploma conferred by Dr. I. Hildesheimer, and Rabbi Mannheimer,
Ungvar. Was Rabbi at Kovago Eors for three years; Nagy Vaszony for three years, and Peczel, for fourteen years; all in Hungary. Address: 221 Woodland Av., Cleveland, Ohio.
Dubov, Marcus H. Rabbi of Congregation Bnei Moshe, Evansville, Ind. Born October 12, 1852, in the Government of Minsk.
Son of Joseph Dubov. Educated at Slutsk and Volosin, Russia.
Received Rabbinical diplomas from Rabbi Hurevitz, Pinsk, Russia; Rabbi Solavaitzik; and Rabbi Jacob Joseph, New York City.
Held positions in Grodno, Russia; Graudenz, Prussia; Sioux City,
Iowa; and Canton, Ohio. Publication: " Tachbulo Lehisasher."
Address: 608 Upper 9th, Evansville, Ind.
Ehrenreich, Bernard Calonimus. Rabbi of Congregation
Adath Jeshurun, Philadelphia, Pa. Born June 11, 1875, at Kis
Szeben, Hungary. Son of Henry Reuben Ehrenreich. Educated
at the University of the City of New York (B. Ph.), and Jewish
Theological Seminary of America (1888-1898). Rabbi in Atlantic
City, N. J., 1900-1901. Address: 2249 North 17th, Philadelphia,
Pa.
Eichler, Menahem M. Rabbi of Congregation Beth Israel,
Philadelphia, Pa. Born in 1870, at Zemplen-Butka, Hungary. Son
of Phineas Eichler. Educated at Talmudical Colleges in Hungary; Teachers' Seminary, Budapest; College of the City of New
York (B. A., 1899); University of Pennsylvania (B. A., 1902);
Jewish Theological Seminary of America (Rabbi, 1899). Address: 1931 North 8th, Philadelphia, Pa.
Elkin, Meyer. Rabbi (since 1887) of Congregation Beth Israel,
Hartford, Conn. Born May 5, 1839, at Breslau, Germany. Son of
Rabbi H. A. Elkin. Educated at Breslau under Rabbi A. Tiktin,
and in Kempen, under Rabbi Meir Lebush, the Malbim. Rabbinical diploma granted by the latter. Was Rabbi at Liverpool, England, for seven years; of Congregation Beth Israel, Philadelphia,
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Pa., for ten years; at Denver, Colo., for two years, and at Evarisville, Ind., for four years. Address: 16 Shultas Place, Hartford,
Conn.
Ellinger, Emil. Rabbi of Congregation Gemilas Hasodim,
Alexandria, La. Born May 2, 1861, at Papa, Hungary. Son of
Carl Ellinger and Marie Deutsch. Hebrew education at Nikolsburg, Moravia; secular education at University of Vienna. Rabbinical diploma received from Rabbi Judah Ossart, Hungary.
Was Rabbi at Devecser, Hungary; Mount Vernon, Ind.; and Sioux
City, Iowa. Address: 330 Fisk, Alexandria, La.
Elmaleh, Leon H. Minister of Congregation Mikveh Israel,
Philadelphia, Pa. Born June 9, 1874, at Gibraltar, Spain. Son of
Jacob Elmaleh and Gunol Aflalo. Educated at Gibraltar and the
Jewish Theological Seminary of America (Hazan). Was teacher
in Shearith Israel Congregational School and in Mission School,
Tremont Street, New York City. Address: 117 North 7th, Philadelphia, Pa.
Elzas, Barnett A. Rabbi of K. K. Beth Elohim, Charleston,
S. C. Born December 7, 1867, at Eydkuhnen, Germany. Son of
Abraham Elzas. Educated at Jews' College, and University College (B. A.), London, Eng., and University of Toronto (B. A.),
Can. M. D., Medical College of the State of South Carolina.
Held positions in Toronto, Can., and Sacramento, Cal. Married
Annie Samuel, London. Publications: "Sabbath School Companion; " "Jews of South Carolina; " "Judaism, an Exposition."
Address: Charleston, S. C.
Enelow, H. Gr. Rabbi (since 1902) of Congregation Adath Israel, Louisville, Ky. Born October 26, 1876, in Russia. Son of
Leopold Enelow. Educated at the Universities of Chicago and
Cincinnati, and the Hebrew Union College (Rabbi, D. D.). Rabbi
of Temple Israel, Paducah, Ky., 1898-1901; Junior Rabbi Temple
Adath Israel, Louisville, 1901-1902. Contributor to the Jewish
press and the Year Book of the Central Conference of American
Rabbis. Editor of " Yahvism and other Discourses by Adolph
Moses." Address: 1115 Hepburn Av., Louisville, Ky.
Englander, Henry. Rabbi (since 1901) of Congregation Ahavath Sholem, Ligonier, Ind. Born at Eperies, Hungary. Son of
Marcus Englander. Educated in public schools of Cincinnati,
Ohio; University of Cincinnati (B. A.); and Hebrew Union College (Rabbi, 1901). Address: Ligonier, Ind.
Englander, Simon J. Rabbi of Emunath Israel Oheb Sholem,
Philadelphia, Pa. Born in 1855, in Hungary, and educated there.
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Son of Emanuel Englander. Was Rabbi of the Hungarian Congregation, Cleveland, Ohio. Address: 323 Catharine, Philadelphia, Pa.
Eppstein, Elias. Rabbi of Congregation Bnai Shalom, Quincy,
111. Born October 15, 1831, at Saarwelling, Alsace-Lorraine. Son
of Rabbi Mayer L. Eppstein. Educated at Bonn. Rabbinical
diploma granted by Rabbi Moshe Mertzig. Held positions in Jackson, Mich.; Detroit, Mich.; Milwaukee, Wis.; Kansas City, Mo.;
and Philadelphia, Pa. Publications: " Conflrmant's Guide; "
" Bible Events." Address: 202 South 12th, Quincy, 111.
*Ettleson, Harry W. Rabbi (since 1903) of the Reform Jewish
Congregation at Marion, Ind. Born at Mobile, Ala.
Taber, Maurice. Rabbi of Congregation Beth-El, Tyler, Texas.
Born December 30, 1S54, at Siroka, Hungary. Son of Leon Faber.
Educated in Hungarian schools and Talmudical Colleges. Rabbinical diploma conferred by Rabbi Wolf Tannenbaum, Verpelet,
Hungary. Was Rabbi of Congregation B'nai Zion, Titusville, Pa.,
for ten years, and of Congregation B'nai Israel, Keokuk, Iowa, for
two years. Was Professor of German Language and Literature
at Titusville High School for nine years. Address: 320 South
College, Tyler, Texas.
Feinberg, Moses. Cantor of Congregation Adath Yeshurun,
Syracuse, N. Y. Born September 1, 1848, at Suvalki, Poland, and
educated there. Son of Abraham Feinberg. Came to America in
1868. Diploma granted by Rabbi Jacob Joseph, New York
City. Held positions in the Congregations New Beth Israel ana
Poale Zedek, Syracuse, N. Y. Address: 511 East Jefferson, Syracuse, N. Y.
Pelsenthal, Bernhard. Rabbi Emeritus of Zion Congregation,
Chicago, 111. Born January 2, 1822, at Miinchweiler, near Kaiserslautern, Rhenish Palatinate. Son of Simon Felsenthal. Educated at Kaiserslautern and University of Munich (Ph. D.). Rabbinical diploma granted by Dr. Samuel Adler and Dr. David Einhorn. Rabbi in Madison, Ind., 1856-1858; of Sinai Congregation,
Chicago, 111., 1861-64; and of Zion Congregation, Chicago, 111.,
1864-1887. Publications: " Kol Kore Bamidbar; iiber jiidische
Reform; " "A Practical Hebrew Grammar; " " Second Hebrew
Reader;" " Jiidisches Schulwesen in Amerika;" " Kritik des Missionswesens; " " Zur Proselytenfrage im Judenthum; " " The Beginnings of Sinai Congregation; " "Jiidische Fragen." Address:
4809 Prairie Av., Chicago, 111.
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Feuerlicht, Morris Marcus. Rabbi of Congregation Ahawas
Achim, Lafayette, Ind. Born January 15, 1879, at Tokay, Hungary. Son of Jacob Feuerlicht and Kate Deutsch. Educated at
public schools of Boston, Mass.; University of Cincinnati (B. A.);
and Hebrew Union College (B. H. L., and Rabbi, 1901). Address:
Lafayette, Ind.
*Fineschriber, "William H. Rabbi of Congregation B'nai Israel,
Davenport, Iowa. Rabbi, 1900, Hebrew Union College.
Fink&lstein, Simon I. Rabbi (since 1892) of Congregation
Ohave Sholom, Brooklyn, N. Y. Born May 25, 1863, at Kovno,
Russia. Son of Jehuda Zwie Finkelstein. Educated at the Talmudical College of Kovno. Rabbinical diplomas conferred by
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Spector, Kovno; Rabbi Isaac Meir; Rabbi
M. Kohen; and Rabbi Jacob Joseph, Vilna (later New York).
Rabbi of Congregation • Bikur Cholim, Baltimore, Md., 1886-1890;
Beth T'flla, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1890-1897; and Poale Zedek, Syracuse, N. Y., 1897-1902. Publications: " Reshis Bickurae" (a
treatise on the Talmud); "Bickurae Anavim and Pirche Hagefen " (explanation of the parables of Rabba bar bar Chana and
the debates of Rabbi Jehoshua ben Chananya with the wise men
of Athens). Address: 1728 Pitkin Av., Brooklyn, N. Y.
Fisher, Henry M. Rabbi of Congregation Beth
City, N. J. Born July 24, 1876, at New Haven
Mark Fisher. Educated at Yale University (B.
Hebrew Union College (B. H. L., and Rabbi, 1903).
Cecil, Atlantic City, N. J.
Israel, Atlantic
Conn. Son of
A., 1897), and
Address: Hotel
Fleischer, Charles. Rabbi of Temple Adath Israel, Boston,
Mass.; Born December 23, 1871, at Breslau, Germany. Son of
Nathan Oscar Fleischer. Educated at public schools of New York
City; Emanu-El Theological Seminary Association, New York
City; high school; University of Cincinnati (B. L., 1893); and
Hebrew Union College (B. H. L., 1887; Rabbi, 1893). Publications: Literary, political, and sociological addresses in various
publications. Address: 40 Concord Av., Cambridge, Mass.
Foster, Solomon. Associate Rabbi of Congregation B'nai Jeshurun, Newark, N. J. Born February 15, 1878, at Americus, Ga.
Son of Meyer Benjamin Foster and Henrietta Cohen. Educated
at the School of the Lackawanna, Scranton, Pa; University of
Cincinnati (B. A.); and Hebrew Union College (Rabbi). Address:
135 Washington, Newark, N. J,
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Frank, Julius. Rabbi of Reform Congregation Oheb Sholom,
Reading, Pa. Born December 26, 1866, at Vegesack, Bremen,
Germany. Educated at the Gymnasium in Bremen; Teachers'
Seminary, Hanover; and University of Gottingen. Rabbinical
diploma conferred by Rabbi Dr. Sam. E. Meyer, Hanover, and
the Board of Governors of the Hanover Seminary. Held positions in Detmold and Liibbecke, Westphalia, Germany. Address: Reading, Pa.
Franklin, Leo M. Rabbi (since 1899) of Temple Beth El,
Detroit, Mich. Born March 5, 1870, at Cambridge City, Ind.
Son of Michael H. Franklin. Educated in public schools of Cincinnati; University of Cincinnati (B. L.); and Hebrew Union
College (Rabbi, 1892). Rabbi of Temple Israel, Omaha, Neb.,
1892-1899. Member of Phi Beta Kappa Fraternity. Editor ot
the Jewish American. Organizer of congregations at Lincoln,
Neb., Port Huron, Saginaw, and Lansing, Mich. Publication:
" A Ritual for Children's Sabbath Services and Religious School
Devotions." Address: 71 Brainard, Detroit, Mich.
Freedman, Samuel Aaron. Cantor of Congregation B'nai
Amoona, St. Louis, Mo. Born September 26, 1863, at Minsk, Russia. Son of Israel Freedman. Educated at Minsk, Vilna, and
the Warsaw Conservatory of Music. Held positions in Poneviezh, Russia, and Cleveland, Ohio. Publications: " Manual of
Harmony; " articles on music. Address: 932 North 14th, St.
Louis, Mo.
Freedman, Wolf. Minister of Congregation B'nei Israel Salanter, Anshe Samut, New York City. Born in Riga, Russia. Address: 99 Monroe, New York City.
Freund, Charles Joseph. Rabbi (since 1900) of Congregation
Shomer Emoonim, Toledo, Ohio. Born August 12, 1875, in New
York City. Son of Abraham Freund. Educated at the College
of the City of New York (B. S., 1894); University of Cincinnati
(B. L., 1898); and Hebrew Union College (B. H. L. and Rabbi).
Rabbi at Charleston, W. Va., 1899-1900. Address: 2346 Putnam,
Toledo, Ohio.
Frey, Sigmund. Born in Neu Raussnitz, Moravia, Austria.
Son of Hayim Frey. Educated at Gymnasium, Bruenn, Moravia.
Rabbinical diploma granted by Dr. Samuel Gruen. Held positions in Philadelphia, Pa.; Chicago, 111.; Springfield, 111.;
Wabash, Ind.; and Altoona, Pa. Publications: " Homer and the
Bible;" "Comparisons of the World's Literature and Rabbinic
L o r e ; " " Caveant Consules," etc. Address: 7524 Union Av.,
Chicago, 111.
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Fridlander, Hamen. Minister of Congregation Beth Joseph,
Tupper Lake, N. Y. Born in the Government Kovno, Russia.
Diploma conferred by Rabbi Solomon Tropp. Address: Tupper
Lake, Franklin Co., N. Y.
Fried, Michael. Minister (since 1898) of Congregation Tree
of Life, Pittsburg, Pa. Born May 30, 1875, in Hungary. Educated at public schools, New York City; University of the City
of New York; and Columbia University. Rabbinical diploma
conferred by the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Minister of Congregation Ahavath Scholom Beth Aron, Brooklyn,
N. Y., 1896-1897. Chaplain of the J. M. Gusky Orphanage of
Western Pennsylvania. Address: 3432 Forbes, Pittsburg, Pa.
Friederman, Solomon Jacob. Rabbi of Congregation Shaarei
Jerusalem, Zitomir, and Ein Jacob, Boston, Mass. Born May 10,
1866, at Vilna, Russia. Son of Boruch M. Friederman. Rabbinical diploma received from Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Spector,
Kovno. Was Rabbi in Congregation Kol Israel, New York City.
Publications: " Emeth Weemuno;" " Minchos Jacob." Address:
116 Salem, Boston, Mass.
Friedlander, Jeremiah. Rabbi of Congregation Beth Hamedrosh Hagodol of Agudath Achim, Baltimore, Md. Born January 29, 1867, at Brisk, Government Kovno, Russia. Son of Nehemiah Friedlander. Educated at Vilna and Miro, Russia. Rabbinical diploma received from Rabbi Levinson, Baltimore.
Teacher at Hebrew School, Baltimore. Address: 908 Granby,
Baltimore, Md.
Friedlander, Joseph. Rabbi of Congregation Emanuel, Beaumont, Texas. Born in 1855, at Edinburgh, Scotland. Son of
Myer Friedlander. Educated at Newcastle on Tyne and Middlesborough and at Jews' College, London, Eng. Was Assistant Minister of St. Kilda Hebrew Congregation, Victoria, Australia; Minister of North West London Synagogue; for four
years private secretary to the Chief Rabbi of the British Empire;
and Secretary to the English Zionist Federation. Contributor to
the Jewish press of England and America. Address: 970 Liberty, Beaumont, Texas.
*Friedlander, M. Rabbi of First Hebrew Congregation, Oakland, Cal. Address: 1109 Castro, Oakland, Cal.
*Friedman, Aaron. Rabbi at Minneapolis, Minn. Rabbi, 1893,
Hebrew Union College.
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Friedman, Samuel. Rabbi of Congregation Ohev Sholom
Harrisburg, Pa. Born January 21, 1865, at Shaky, Russia. Son
of Solomon Friedman and Esther Berkmann. Educated at Dr.
Kirschstein's Institute, Berlin; Teacher's Seminary, Hanover; and
Jews' College, London, Eng. Rabbinical diplomas conferred by
Rabbi Dr. Groneman, Hanover, and Kirchenrat Dr. Th. Kronen,
Stuttgart. Was Rabbi of North West London Synagogue; and of
Temple Israel, Amsterdam, N. Y. Address: 1515 Penn, Harrisburg, Pa.
Friedman, "William S. Rabbi (since 1890) of Congregation
Emanuel, Denver, Colo. Born October 24, 1868, at Chicago, 111.
Son of Nathan Friedman. B. H. L. and Rabbi, Hebrew Union College; B. L., University of Cincinnati. Married Juliet Freyhan,
New Orleans, La., April 29, 1903. Address: Hotel Metropole,
Denver, Colo.
Frommer, Jacob abn, the Levite. Rabbi of Congregation
Bikur Cholim Bnay Abraham, New Haven, Conn. Born Shebat
1, 5614, in Riga, Russia. Son of Eleazar abn Frommer. Educated at Riga, Plotsk, Vilna, and Kovno, in Russia. Rabbinical
diploma granted by Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Spector, Kovno; Rabbi
Jacob Joseph, Sager; Rabbi Hirsch Rabinowitz, Mitau; Rabbi
Moses Shapira, Riga; Rabbi Eliezer Gordon, Kelem; and Rabbi
Yechiel Michael, Janishak; all in Russia. Was Rabbi at Krashnudvin and Pernau, in Russia, and at Cleveland, Ohio. Address:
72 York, New Haven, Conn.
Gerechter, Emanuel. Rabbi (since 1892) of Temple Zion, Appleton, Wis. Born November 15, 1842, at Borek, Prussia. Son
of Louis Gerechter. Educated by father, teacher at Lissa, Posen,
Prussia; at Talmudical College and Gymnasium of Lissa, and at
Breslau, Germany. Came to America in 1866. Held positions in
New York City, 1866-1871; Detroit, Mich., 1871-1874; Grand
Rapids, Mich., 1874-]880; Milwaukee, Wis., 1880-1892. Professor
of German at Central High School and Ladies' Bacon Seminary,
Grand Rapids, Mich., 1874-1880. Since 1894 Professor of Hebrew
and German Literature (head of German Department), Lawrence University, Appleton, Wis. Address: Appleton, Wis.
Ginsburg, David. Rabbi of Congregations Beth Israel and
Beth Hakneses Hachodesh, Rochester, N. Y. Born March 3,
1869 at Widz, Russia. Son of Isaac Ginsburg. Educated in
Russia, at Vilna, Kovno, Eiseshok, and St. Petersburg. Rabbinical diplomas conferred by Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Spector, Kovno,
and Rabbi Samuel Mohilever, Bielostok. Publication: " Giloion
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Maharil" (on the Mishna). Address:
N. Y.
21 Harrison, Rochester,
Gittelsohn, Benjamin. Rabbi of Congregation Shaare Torah,
Cleveland, Ohio. Born in 1853, in Russia. Son of Jehuda Gittelsohn. Educated at Kovno, Russia, and received a Rabbinical
diploma from the Rabbi of Kovno and others. Held two positions in Russia. Publication: " Ha-Poteah Ve-ha-hotem (a collection of Halachic and Hagadic discourses in Hebrew). Address: 313 Orange, Cleveland, 0.
Glass, Herman. Cantor (since 1878) of Congregation Chizzuk
Emoonah, Baltimore, Md. Born January 24, 1852, in Sorau, Upper Silesia, Germany. Son of Abram Glass. Educated in Gymnasiums of Gleiwitz and Beuthen, Upper Silesia, and by Cantor
Deutsch, Breslau, Germany. Came to America in 1878. Held
positions in "Westphalia and the Rhineland, Germany. Address:
1717 McCulloh, Baltimore, Md.
Glazer, Simon. Rabbi (since 1903) of Congregation B'nai
Israel, Des Moines, Iowa. Born January 21, 1878, at Erzwelig,
Government Kovno, Russia. Son of Abraham Elijah Glazer.
Educated at various Talmudical Colleges in Russia. Rabbinical
diploma received from Rabbi Solomon D. Sprintz, Paris (now at
Montreal;, 1897. Was Rabbi at Altoona, Pa. (1897); Bradford,
Pa. (1899); Houston, Texas (1900); Dallas, Texas (1902); and
New Orleans, La. (1902). Came to America in 1896. Contributor to the Yiddish, English-Jewish, and Hebrew press. Address:
901 East 6th, Des Moines, Iowa.
*Grhick, B. Rabbi of Congregation Oheb Sholom, Newark, N. J.
Address: 274 Littleton Av.,- Newark, N. J.
Goldberg', Michael. Minister of Congregation Dorshei Tove,
Philadelphia, Pa. Born December 20, 1857, in Russia, and educated there. Son of Benjamin Goldberg. Rabbinical diploma
conferred by Rabbi Teumime. Address: 207 Vine, Philadelphia, Pa.
Goldberg, Samuel I.ouis. Cantor of Congregation Ansche
Nejen Nussach Ho-Ari, Baltimore, Md. Born May 7, 1863, in
Government Kovno, Russia. Son of Abraham Goldberg. Educated at Eiseshok, Russia. Musical education under private
teachers. Was teacher in Russia, 1883-1888. Address: 1103 Orleans, Baltimore. Md.
Goldfarb, Israel. Cantor of Congregation B'nai Jeshurun,
Tompkinsville, Staten Island, N. Y. Born January 1, 1881, at
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Lieniava, Galicia. Son of David Goldfarb. Educated at Lieniava
(Talmud and music); high school, New York City; and Jewish
Theological Seminary of America (Diploma). Address: Tompkinsville, S. I., New York City.
Goldfarb, Jacob. Minister of Congregation Beth Israel, Washington, Pa. Born March 7, 1871, in Russia, and educated there.
Son of Samuel Goldfarb. Address: Washington, Pa.
Goldstein, Morris. Cantor (since 1880) of K. K. Bene Israel,
Cincinnati, Ohio. Born April 7, 1840, at Kecskemet, Hungary.
Son of Samuel Goldstein. Educated at Vienna, Austria. Cantor
for twelve years of Congregations Ansche Chesed and Shaar
Hashomayim, New York City. Publications: " Zimrath Yah"
(in collaboration with A. Kaiser and S. Welsh); " Kol Zimroh,"
and "The Temple Service" (both in collaboration with others).
Address: Mound Str. Temple, 8th and Mound, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Gordon, Max. Cantor (since 1901) of the Society Ahwat
Chesed, New London, Conn. Born June, 1875, in Vilna, Russia.
Sou of Morris Gordon. Rabbinical diploma granted by Rabbi
Solomon, Vilna, Rabbi Cantor, and Rabbi Berenstein. Came to
America in 1899. Rabbi at Meriden, Conn., 1899-1901. Address:
54 Bradley, New London, Conn.
Gorovitz, Aaron, Rabbi of Congregation Bnay Israel, Woonsocket, R. I. Born March 15, 1870, in Russia. Son of Moses
Solomon Soloweitzik. Educated at Vilna, Russia. Rabbinical
diploma conferred by Rabbi Solomon Katz. Held positions in St.
John, New Brunswick, and Newburgh, N. Y. Chaplain Matteawan State Hospital, N. Y. Address: 400 Diamond Hill R., Woonsocket, R. I.
Grafman, It. Cantor of Congregation Oheb Sholem, Washington, D. C. Born in Russia. Son of Leib Grafman. Educated at
Vilna. Held positions in Bradford, Pa., Richmond, Va., and Baltimore, Md. Address: Washington, D. C.
Grafman, Saul. Cantor of Beth Hamedrash Hagodol, Pittsburg, Pa. Born October, 1872, in Vilna, Russia, and educated
there. Son of Louis Grafman. Rabbinical diplomas conferred
by Rabbis in Russia. Address: 24 Logan, Pittsburg, Pa.
Greenburg, 'William H. Rabbi of Temple Emanu-El, Dallas,
Texas. Born April 27, 1868, at London, Eng. Son of Henry
Greenburg. Educated at University College and Jews' College,
London, and Monteflore College, Ramsgate, Eng. M. A. and Ph. D.,
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Heidelberg University. Rabbinical diploma granted by Haham
Dr. Moses Gaster, London. Was Rabbi at Albuquerque, N. M.,
and Sacramento, Cal. Publication: " The Haggadah according to
the Rite of Yemen, with Arabic-Hebrew Commentary." Address:
108 Browden, Dallas, Texas.
Greenfield, Samuel. Rabbi (since 1899) of Mount Zion Congregation, New York City. Born April 6, 1870, at Kaschau, Austria-Hungary. Son of Solomon Greenfield and Bertha Friedman.
Educated at Kaschau, New York City, and Cincinnati, Ohio.
Rabbi, Hebrew Union College; B. L. University of Cincinnati.
Rabbi at Peoria, 111., 1891-1893; Rodeph Shalom Congregation,
Pittsburg, Pa., 1893-1896; and Temple Beth Elohim, Brooklyn,
N. Y., 1896-1899. Editor of the Jewish Criterion, 1895-1898. Address: 22 East 114th, New York City.
Gries, Moses J. Rabbi (since 1892) of Congregation Tifereth
Israel, Cleveland, Ohio. Born January 25, 1868, at Newark, N. J.
Educated at University of Cincinnati (B. L., 1889), and Hebrew
Union College (Rabbi, 1889). Rabbi at Chattanooga, Tenn.,
1889-1892. President Educational League; organizer of first
"Open Temple; " President Alumni Association Hebrew Union
College. Address: 45 Oakdale, Cleveland, Ohio.
Gross, Alexander. Minister (since 1890) of Congregation
Adath Jeshurun, Philadelphia, Pa. Born December 4, 1884, at
Tauber Bischofsheim, Germany. Son of Abraham Gross. Educated at Tauber Bischofsheim and Karlsruhe. Diplomas awarded
by Dr. I. Geismar and Dr. Altman. Held positions at Petersburg,
Va., for eleven years; and at Easton, Pa., for eight years. Address: 1924 North Franklin, Philadelphia, Pa.
Grossmann, Louis. Rabbi of Congregation B'nai Yeshurun,
Cincinnati, Ohio. Born February 24, 1863. Son of Rabbi Ignatz
Grossmann (author of " Mikraoth Ketanoth"). Educated at
University of Cincinnati (B. A.) and Hebrew Union College
(Rabbi and D. D.). Rabbi of Temple Beth El, Detroit, Mich.,
1884-1898. Professor of Theology at Hebrew Union College. Was
Secretary Central Conference of American Rabbis and Member
Executive Board. Publications: " Judaism and the Science of
Religion; " " Maimonides; " "Responses, Psalms, and Hymns; "
"Life and Writings of Isaac M. Wise" (edited in conjunction
with David Philipson). Address: 2212 Park Av., Walnut Hills,
Cincinnati, Ohio.
Grossman, Rudolph. Rabbi of Temple Rodeph Sholom,
New York City. Born July 24, 1867, at Vienna, Austria. Son of
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Rabbi Ignatz Grossman. Educated at University of Cincinnati
(B. L.) and Hebrew Union College (Rabbi and D. D.). Address:
1347 Lexington Av., New York City.
Guinsburg-, Theodore. Cantor of Congregation Ahawath
Chesed Shaar Hashomayim, New York City. Born October 29,
1847, in Kalwarya, Poland. Son of Moses Guinsburg. Educated
in Russia and Berlin. Was Cantor in Hartford, Conn. Address:
258 West 113th, New York City.
Guranowsky, Abraham. Rabbi (since 1878) of Congregation
Emunath Israel, New York City. Born December 21, 1848, at
Wloclawek, Poland. Son of Israel Guranowsky and Gitel Zloto.
Educated at the Talmudical Colleges of Brisk, Plotsk, Konin, and
Kutno, in Russia. Rabbinical diplomas conferred by Rabbi
Joseph N. Caro, Rabbi Baer Mattrich, Libronietz; and the Rabbi
of Isbitz. Address: 311 West 27th, New York City.
Guttmacher, Adolf. Rabbi of the Baltimore (Md.) Hebrew
Congregation. Born January 7, 1861, in Germany. Son of Manheim Guttmacher. Educated at the Jiidisches Lehrer Seminar,
Berlin; University of Cincinnati (B. L.); Hebrew Union College
(Rabbi); and Johns Hopkins University (Ph.D.). Was Rabbi
at Fort Wayne, Ind. Publication: "Optimism and Pessimism
in the Old and New Testaments." Address: 2239 Bolton Ave.,
Baltimore, Md.
Guttman, Adolph. Rabbi (since 1883) of the Society of Concord, Syracuse, N. Y. Born August, 1854, in Austria. Son of
Hirsch Guttman. Educated at Leipnik, Austria, Pressburg, Hungary, and Universities of Berlin, Vienna, and Zurich (Ph. D.).
Rabbinical diplomas conferred by Rabbi H. Dembitzer, Cracow,
Galicia; Dr. Leopold Stein, Frankfort on the Main; and the
Hochschule, Beth Hamidrash, Vienna. Until recently Professor
of Semitics in Syracuse University. Was Rabbi at Hohenems,
Tyrol. Address: 102 Walnut Park, Syracuse, N. Y.
Hailperin, Baer. Rabbi (since 1888) of Congregation Mishnayes, Newark, N. J. Born in Russia, in 1859. Son of Mordecai
Hailperin and Feige Schapira. Educated at Minsk, Russia, the
chief rabbis of which conferred the Rabbinical diploma upon him.
Held Rabbinical positions in Russia (1885) and Albany, N. Y.
(1887). Founder of the Kosher Meat System and the Passover
Relief Fund in Newark. Address: 229 Court, Newark, N. J.
Harris, Maurice H. Rabbi of Temple Israel of Harlem, New
York City. Born November 9, 1859, in London, Eng. Son of
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Henry L. Harris. Educated in London and at Columbia University (M. A. and Ph. D.). Rabbinical diploma conferred by
Emanu-El Theological Seminary Association, New York City.
Publication: " The People of the Book "(Biblical History, 3 vols.).
Address: 10 East 129th, New York City.
Harrison, Leon.. Rabbi of Temple Israel, St. Louis, Mo. Born
August 13, 1866, at Liverpool, Eng. Son of Gustave Harrison.
Educated at public schools of New York City; College of the City
of New York; and Columbia University. Rabbinical diploma
conferred by Emanu-El Theological Seminary Association, New
York City. Was Rabbi of Temple Israel, Brooklyn, N. Y. Address: Temple Israel, St. Louis, Mo.
Heclit, Sigmund. Rabbi (since 1899) of Congregation B'nai
B'rith, Los Angeles, Cal. Born August 1, 1849, at Hlinik, Hungary. Son of Moritz Hecht. Educated privately by his father;
at Zsolna, Hungary; and at the High School, Seminary, and University at Vienna. Additional instruction in New York. Rabbinical diploma granted by the Rabbi of Bistritz, Hungary. D. D.,
1886, University of Alabama. Rabbi at Montgomery, Ala., 18761888; of Temple Emanu-El, Milwaukee, W.is., 1888-1899. Publication: " Post-Biblical History." Address: 817 Beaver, Los Angeles, Cal.
Heinberg, Tsrael. Rabbi (since 1889) of Congregation B'nai
Israel, Monroe, La. Born March, 1858, at Padberg, Westphalia,
Germany. Son of Bendix Heinberg. Educated at Jewish Seminary, Miinster, Westphalia, and University of Bonn. Rabbinical
diploma received from the Curatorium of the Mark-Haindorf
Seminary. Was Rabbi at Pensacola, Fla., for one year, and at
Alexandria, La., for two years. Address: 112 Jackson, Monroe, La.
Heller, H. Rabbi of Congregation Poale Zedek, Chicago, 111.
Born in Bakau, Roumania. Address: 19 O'Brien, Chicago, 111.
Heller, Maxmillian. Rabbi (since 1887) of Temple Sinai,
New Orleans, La. Born January 1, 1860, at Prague, Bohemia.
Son of Seligmann Heller and Mathilde Kassowitz. Educated at
the Neustadter Gymnasium, Prague; Hebrew Union College
(Rabbi); and University of Cincinnati (B. L. and M. L.). Rabbi,
1884-1886, of Zion Congregation, Chicago, 111.; 1886-1887, of Congregation Beth-El, Houston, Texas. Address: 1828 Marengo, New
Orleans, La.
Hershman, Joel. Cantor of Congregation Bnei Abraham, Hagerstown, Md. Born January 1, 1883, at Minsk, Russia. Son of
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David Hershman. Educated at Dvinsk and Vilna, Russia. Held
positions at Lintop, Russia, and Waterbury, Conn. Address: 252
Frederick, Hagerstown, Md.
Hess, Emanuel L. Born August 12, 1845, at Meerholz, Kurhessen, Germany. Son of David Hess. Educated at Gymnasium of
Hanau, at Marburg, and Frankfort on the Main (under Rabbis
S. R. Hirsch and Leopold Stein). Was Rabbi at Kansas City,
Mo., 1871-1876; Shreveport, La., 1876-1888; and St. Paul, Minn.,
1888-1899. Publications: "Treatise on the Shulchan Aruch; "
"Guide for Confirmation;" "Catechism;" "Ritual for Children's
Services." Address: 52 Tilton, St. Paul, Minn.
*Hirscli, Emil G. Rabbi (since 1880) of Chicago (111.) Sinai
Congregation. Born May 22, 1852, at Luxemburg. Son of Rabbi
Samuel Hirsch and Louise Nickolls. B. A. (1872), M. A. (1875),
University of Pennsylvania; Ph. D. (1876), University of Leipzig;
LL. D., Austin College; and L. H. D., Western University. Studied
at the Berlin Hochschule fur die Wissenschaft des Judenthums
(Rabbi, 1877). Rabbi of Har Sinai Congregation, Baltimore, Md.,
in 1877; of Congregation Adath Israel, Louisville, Ky., 1878-1880.
Professor of Rabbinical Literature and Philosophy at University
of Chicago since 1888. Editor of the Reform Advocate. Editor
Jewish Encyclopedia Department of the Bible. Address: 3612
Grand Boulevard, Chicago, 111.
Hirschberg, Abram. Rabbi (since 1898) of North Chicago Hebrew Congregation, Chicago, 111. Born August 10, 1876, at Cincinnati, Ohio. Son of Maurice A. Hirschberg. Educated at University of Cincinnati (B. A.); University of Chicago; and Hebrew Union College (B. H. L., B. D., and Rabbi, 1898). Address:
294 La Salle Av., Chicago, 111.
Hirschowitz, Abraham Eber. Rabbi (since 1898) of Congregation Sons of Israel, New York City. Born in 1845, in Shilel,
Russia. Son of Samuel Hirschowitz and Hannah Kirschstein.
Educated at Kovno, Russia. Rabbinical diploma conferred by
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Spector, Kovno; Rabbi Jacob Saul Eliashar,
Jerusalem; Dr. Nathan Adler and Rabbi Jacob Rheinowitz, London, Eng. Held positions as Superintendent of the Poor Jews'
Shelter, London, for five years; as teacher in the Jews' Free
School, London; as Rabbi of Congregation Beth Hamedrash Chevrah Torah, Melbourne, Australia; and as Rabbi in San Francisco,
Cal., for one year; and in New York City, for seven years. Sent,
in 1884, by German Rabbis, to the Anglo-Jewish Colonization
Society of London concerning the colonization of Palestine.
Called to Japan in 1895 to decide a religious question. Publica-
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tions: " Minchat Marchesas " (dedicated to Sir Moses Monteflore);
Memorial Address on Mr. Lawrence Oliphant; "Religious Duties
of the Daughters of Israel." Address: 61 East Broadway, New
York City.
Hirsdansky, Samuel Z'vi. Rabbi of B'nai Pithche Teshubah,
New York City. Born Ab 7, 5608, at Kovno, Russia. Son of
Abraham Isaac Hirsdansky and Rachel Miriam Iviensky. Educated at Talmudical Colleges of Kovno and Volosin, Russia.
Rabbinical diploma conferred by Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Spector,
Kovno. Was Rabbi in Congregations Anshei Emeth, Agudath
Achim Chesed Shel Emeth, Anshei Makowa, and Anshei Kroz, all
in New York City. Founder of an Old People's Home; a Society
for the Aid of the Sick; a Kosher Food House for Jewish Soldiers;
a Free Transportation Society, etc.; all in Kovno. Was Gabai of
the Kovno Talmudical College. Address: 10 East 103rd, New
York City.
Hirshberg 1 , Samuel. Rabbi (since 1895) of Congregation
Ohabei Shalom, Boston, Mass. Born December 14, 1869, at Cincinnati, Ohio. Son of Maurice A. Hirshberg and Sarah Samuels.
Educated at Hebrew Union College (Rabbi, 1891); University of
Cincinnati (B. L., 1891); and Harvard University (M. A., 1902).
Was Rabbi of Congregation Achduth Vesholom, Fort Wayne, Ind.,
1891-1895. Married, October 24, 1899, Jeannette Rosalie Hirshberg. Address: 30 Coolidge, Brookline, Mass.
Hochheimer, Henry. Born October 3, 1818, at Ansbach, Middle Franconia. Son of Rabbi Isaac Hochheimer. Rabbinical education under his grandfather, Rabbi Moses Hochheimer, Ansbach; Rabbi Guggenheimer, Kriegshaber; and Rabbi Hirsch Aub,
Munich, from the last of whom he received the Rabbinical authorization (1845). Secular education at the Lateinschule, Ansbach;
Gymnasium, Augsburg; and University of Munich (Ph. D.). Assistant Rabbi to his father in Ichenhausen, 1844-1849; Rabbi of
the Baltimore Hebrew Congregation, 1849-1859; Rabbi of Congregation Oheb Israel, Baltimore, 1859-1892. Made Rabbi Emeritus
in 1892. Contributor to the Jewish press, especially in Germany,
since 1841. Forced to leave Germany on account of seditious
addresses and articles published in 1848 in Der Grenzbote, and Die
Zeitung fur die elegante Welt. Address: Hebrew Hospital and
Asylum, Baltimore, Md.
Hummel, Benno "W. Assistant Cantor (since 1903) of Congregation Chizzuk Emoonah, Baltimore, Md. Born March 10, 1866,
at Fischach, Bavaria. Son of Heinrich Hummel and Fanni Ellinger. Educated at the Talmud Torah of Schwabach and Burg-
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preppaci, Bavaria. Holds a teacher's diploma (1884) of the
Schwabach Imperial Seminary. Was Cantor at Harburg, Bavaria, 1884-1886: Kirchberg, Prussia, 1886-1888; Hoffenheim, Baden,
1888-1892; and of Congregation Shearith Israel, Baltimore, Md.,
1892-1903. Came to America in 1892. Address: 2106 Callow Av.,
Baltimore, Md.
Hurwitz, Isaac S. Rabbi of Congregation Shaare Torah and
Agudath Achim, Hartford, Conn. Born October, 1868, at Nowoprudok, Government Minsk, Russia. Son of Joseph B. Hurwitz.
Educated at Talmudical College of Volosin, Russia. Rabbinical
diplomas received from Rabbis Naftali Hirsch Berlin and Isaac
Elchanan Spector. Address: 76 Pleasant, Hartford, Conn.
Hurwitz, Reuben. Rabbi of Congregation B'nai Abraham,
Terre Haute, Ind. Born Shebat 14, 5625, at Kalwarya, Poland.
Son of Hyman Isaac Hurwitz. Educated at Kovno, Russia. Rabbinical diploma received trom Rabbi Alexander Moses Lapidos,
and others. Address: 327 South 12th, Terre Haute, Ind.
Isaacs, Abram S. Rabbi of Congregation Bnai Jeshurun (Nathan Barnert Memorial Temple), Paterson, N. J. Born August
30, 1853, in New York City. Son of Rabbi Samuel Myer Isaacs
and Jane Symmons. Educated at a collegiate school, New York
City; University of the City of New York (B. A., 1871; M. A.,
1873; Ph. D., 1878); Breslau University (1874-1877); and Breslau
Jewish Theological Seminary (certificate three years' study). Professor of Hebrew, University of the City of New York, 1885-1894;
Professor of German, University of the City of New York, 18891895; Professor of German Literature (post-graduate seminary),
University of the City of New York, since 1895. Editor of the
Jewish Messenger, 1878-1903; of Hebraica, 1879. Consulting editor
of Standard Dictionary. Founder of Children's Synagogues, 18781881. Publications: "Moses Chaim Luzzatto; " "Jewish Future
Life " (chapter in " That Unknown Country " ) ; " Stories from
Rabbis; " " The Jews of New York " (chapter in Vol. IV Wilson's
"Memorial History of New Y o r k " ) ; reviews and essays in periodical publications. Address: Paterson, N. J.
•Israeli, Phineas. Rabbi of Congregation Beth El Jacob, Des
Moines, Iowa. Holds Rabbinical diploma of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.
Jacobs, Pizer W. Rabbi (since 1902) of Congregation B'nai
Sholom, Huntsville, Ala. Born December 31, 1876. Son of Wolfe
Jacobs. B. D. and Rabbi, Hebrew Union College; B. A., University of Cincinnati (Jones Prize); Rabbi at Albuquerque, N. M.,
1900-1902. Address: P. O. Box 115, Huntsville, Ala.
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Jaoobson, Jacob S. Minister of Zion Congregation of "West
Chicago, 111. Born October 4, 1840, at Rendsburg, Holstein. Son
of Samuel Jacobson. Educated at Rendsburg, Hamburg-Altona,
and London, Eng. Was teacher at Realgymnasium, Flensborg,
Germany, 1862-1863, and teacher of the Jewish Congregation there.
Rabbi of Washington Hebrew Congregation, Washington, D. C,
1866-1870; B'nai Jeshurun Congregation, Paterson, N. J., 18701872; Congregation Berith Sholom, Easton, Pa., 1873-1881; Hebrew Benevolent Congregation, Atlanta, Ga., 1881-1888; and Congregation B'nai Israel, Natchez, Miss., 1888-1896. Principal of
Englewood Hebrew Education Society, Chicago, 111., 1898-1900.
Address: 144 Warren Av., Chicago, 111.
Jacobson, Moses Perez. Rabbi of Hebrew Zion Congregation,
Shreveport, La. Born August 25, 1864, at Fort Wayne, Ind. Son
of Elkan Jacobson and Fanny Rosenstein. Educated at Hebrew
Union College (Rabbi, 1886); and University of Cincinnati (B. A.).
Was Rabbi of Congregation Beth Israel, Macon, Ga., for three
years; Congregation Beth El, San Antonio, Texas, for two years;
Congregation B'nai Israel, Salt Lake City, Utah, for three years;
Congregation Rodef Sholem, Youngstown, Ohio, for two years;
and Kehillath Anshe Maarabh, Chicago, 111., for three years. Editor of the Jewish Chronicle, Mobile, Ala. Address: 750 Hope,
Shreveport, La.
Jacobson, Simon. Cantor of Kehilath Jeshurun, New York
City. Born May 10, 1857, at Warsaw, Poland. Son of Isaac Jacob
Jacobson. Educated at Warsaw, and Konigsberg, Prussia. Preceptor in Ritual and Liturgy in Jewish Theological Seminary of
America. Address: 123 East 82d, New York City.
Jastrow, Marcus. Rabbi Emeritus of Congregation Rodeph
Shalom, Philadelphia, Pa. Born June 5, 1829, at Rogasen, Province of Posen, Prussia. Son of Abraham Jastrow. Educated at
Rogasen; Gymnasium at Posen; and University of Berlin. Ph. D.,
Halle; Litt. D., University of Pennsylvania. Rabbinical diplomas
conferred by Rabbi Moses Feilchenfeld, Rogasen, and Rabbi Dr.
Wolf Landau, Dresden. Held positions as preacher of the German Congregation of Warsaw, Poland; Rabbi at Worms, Germany; and Rabbi of Congregation Rodeph Shalom. Imprisoned
in Warsaw; expelled for political reasons; recalled in 1862. Publications: " Vier Jahrhunderte aus der Geschichte der Juden; "
" Kazania" (collection of sermons in Polish); "Die Lage der
Juden in Polen" (anonymous); "Die Vorliiufer der polnischen
Revolution " (anonymous); " Dictionary of the Targumim, the
Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature; "
contributions to Frankel's Monatsschrift, Revue des Etudes juives,
Hebraica, etc. Address: 139 West Upsal, Germantown, Pa,
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Joseph, Theodore F. Rabbi (since 1899) of Temple uts Hirsch,
Seattle, Wash. Born October 2, 1875, at Neuviller, Alsace, Germany. Son of Joseph S. Joseph. Educated at public scnools of
Lancaster, Pa.; Cornell University (B. A., 1896); Hebrew Union
College (Rabbi, 1899). Address: 607 Sixth Av., Seattle, Wash.
Kahn, Emanuel. Rabbi of United Hebrew Congregation, Fort
Smith, Ark. Born May 20, 1879, at Cincinnati, Ohio. Son of
Mayer Kahn. Educated at public schools of Cincinnati. Rabbi,
Hebrew Union College (1902); B. A. University of Cincinnati.
Address: Fort Smith, Ark.
Kaiser, Alois. Cantor (since 1866) of Congregation Oheb
Shalom, Baltimore, Md. Born November 10, 1840, at Szobotist,
Hungary. Son of David Loeb Kaiser. Educated at Realschule,
Vienna; Teacher's Seminary and Conservatory of Music, Vienna;
Conservatory of Music, Prague; and Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, Md. Was Cantor at Fiinfhaus, Vienna, and at the
Neusynagoge, Prague. President Society of American Cantors;
Honorary Member Central Conference of American Rabbis; President Hebrew Education Society, Baltimore. Publications: " Zimrath Yah" (musical service for the whole Jewish year); Psalms
1, 29, 112, and 125 set to music;' Requiem for the Day of Atonement; Cantata for Simchath Torah; Confirmation and Consolation Hymns; (with Win. Sparger) Souvenir of the Jewish Women's Congress at the World's Columbian Exposition; Dedication
Anthem; compiler of the music of the Union Hymnal. Address:
1713 Linden Av., Baltimore, Md.
Kamenetzky, Heiman M. Rabbi of Congregation Nachlath
Zwie, New York City. Born October 15, 1840, in Lida, Russia.
Son of Solomon Kamenetzky. Educated at the Talmudical College
of Volosin, Russia. Rabbinical diploma conferred by Rabbi Isaac
Elchanan Spector, Kovno. Address: 1837 Madison Av., New York
City.
Kaplan, Bernard Michael. Rabbi of Congregation B'nai Israel, Sacramento, Cal. Born June 15, 1874, at Linkovo, Lithuania,
Russia. Son of Michael Sheftel Kaplan. Educated at public
schools, New York City; Columbia University (B. A. and M. A.),
and Jewish Theological Seminary of America (Rabbi). Principal
of Mendes' Mission School, New York City, 1897; lecturer on Political Economy at Young Men's Christian Association, New York
City; 1897-1898; Rabbi McGill College Avenue Synagogue, Montreal, Can., 1897-1902. Publication: "Origin and Goal of Zionism,"
published by the Canadian Federation of Zionists. Contributor to
the Jewish Criterion, Hebrew Watchword and Instructor, Open
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Court, and other papers. Address: 1017 Eighteenth, Sacramento,
Cal.
Kaplan, Elias M. Cantor of Congregation Shomro Habrith,
Reading, Pa. Born in Derevno, Government Vilna, Russia. Son
of Moses Kaplan. Educated at Vilna. Held a position in Shenandoah, Pa. Address: 419 Cedar, Reading, Pa.
KartschmarofE, Edward. Cantor (since 1876) of Congregation
B'nai Jeshurun, New York City. Born January 1, 1843, at Kherson, Russia. Son of Lazar Kartschmaroff. Educated at Vienna,
Austria. Was Cantor at Miskolcz and Szegedin, Hungary; in the
Neusynagoge, Prague, Bohemia; and of Congregation Shaare
Rachamim (1873-187C), New York City. Address: 1143 Lexington
Av., New York City.
Kauvar, Charles Eliezer. Rabbi of Congregation Beth Medrash Hagodol, Denver, Colo. Born Ab 14, 1879, at Vilna, Russia.
Son of Solomon Zalkind Kauvar. Educated at Vilna and in New
York City. Rabbi, 1902, Jewish Theological Seminary of America
(Valedictorian); B. A., 1900, College of the City of New York
(Ward Medal); M. A., Columbia University, New York. Address:
2546 Champa, Denver, Colo.
Kleeberg, Levi. Rabbi of Congregation Berith Sholom, Easton,
Pa. Born July 14, 1832, at Hofgeismar, Germany. Educated at
Halberstadt and Gottingen (Ph. D.). Rabbinical diploma conferred by Dr. I. Hildesheimer. Held positions in Elberfeld, Germany; Louisville, Ky.; and New Haven, Conn. Address: 6th
Street Temple, Easton, Pa., or 211 East 85th, New York City.
Klein, David. Rabbi of Congregation B'nai Israel, Columbus,
Ohio. Born in 1868 at Hethars, Hungary. Son of Rabbi Joel
Klein. Educated at a Talmudical College, a Gymnasium, the
Ohio State University (B. Ph., M. A.), and privately by his father.
Rabbi of Congregation Rodef Shalom, Reading, Pa., 1890-1892;
and of Akron (Ohio) Hebrew Congregation, 1893-1896. Publications: "The Philosophy of Spinoza, with Reference to the
Sources; " ''The Influence of Spinoza on Modern Thought; "
"Stoicism and Hassidism." Address: 526 East Main, Columbus,
Ohio.
Klein, Henry. Rabbi (since 1896) of the Altoona (Pa.) Hebrew Reform Congregation. Born June 25, 1859, at Hethars, Hungary. Son of Rabbi Joel Klein. Educated at the Gymnasium of
Miskolcz and Talmudical College of Beregsas, Hungary. Rabbinical diploma granted by Rabbi Moses Margarethen. Was Rabbi at
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Amsterdam, N. Y., for three years, and Canton, Ohio, one year.
Publication: " The Relation of Avicebron and Maimonides to Aristotle." Address: 1123 Sixteenth Av., Altoor.a, Pa.
Klein, Israel. Rabbi of Congregation Bnai Israel, Evansville
Ind. Born July 19, 1877, at Zanesville, Ohio. Son of Leopold
Klein. Educated at public schools of Zanesville, Chicago, and
Cleveland; Jewish Orphan Asylum, Cleveland; high school, Cincinnati; University of Cincinnnati (B. A.); and Hebrew Union
College (B. H. L., and Rabbi, 1899, Valedictorian). Address: 514
Upper 7th Street, Evansville, Ind.
Klein, Jacob. Rabbi of Congregation Emanuel, Statesville,
N. C. Born May 12, 1870, at Nagy-Ida, Hungary. Son of Max Klein.
Educated at Kaschau, Hungary. Attended several Talmudical
Colleges, and was graduated at a teachers' seminary. Rabbinical
diploma conferred by Rabbi Isaac Billitzer, Nagy-Ida. Was Superintendent of Chicago Home for the Jewish Friendless; and
Rabbi of Congregations Agudath Achim and Ohave Zedek, Chicago, 111. Contributed articles and poems to Die Deborah. Address: 710 Kelly, Statesville, N. C.
Klein, Philip. Rabbi of the First Hungarian Congregation
Ohab Zedek, New York City. Born May 22, 1849, at Baracska,
Hungary. Son of Hermann Klein. Educated at Talmudical Colleges in Hungary, Gymnasium in Pressburg, and Universities of
Vienna and Berlin (Ph. D.). Rabbinical diploma conferred by
Dr. H. B. Auerbach, Halberstadt. Was Rabbi in Libau, Russia.
Address: 57 East 7th, New York City.
Koch, Samuel. Rabbi of Congregation Beth-El, Pensacola, Fla.
Born at Denver, Colo. Son of Daniel Koch. B. L., 1899, and
M. A., 1901, University of Cincinnati; Rabbi, 1902, Hebrew Union
College. Address: 17 N. Pelafox, Pensacola, Fla.
Kohler, Kaufmann. Honorary Minister of Temple Beth El, New
York City. Born May 10, 1843, at Furth, Bavaria. Son of Moritz
Kohler and Babette Loewemayer. Educated at Talmudical Colleges of Hassfurt, Hoechburg near Wiirzburg, Mayence, Altona,
Frankfort on the Main under Samson Raphael Hirsch, and at the
Universities of Munich, Berlin, Leipzig, and Erlangen (Ph. D.).
Rabbinical diplomas granted by Dr. Joseph Aub, Berlin, and Dr.
M. Loewemayer, Frankfort on the Oder. Rabbi of Congregation
Beth El, Detroit, Mich., 1869-1870; Sinai Temple, Chicago, 111.,
1871-1879; and Temple Beth El, New York City, 1879-1903. President-elect of the Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, Ohio. Editor
of the Department Theology and Philosophy, Jewish Encyclo-
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pedia. For many years President New York Board of Jewish
Ministers. Convened the Pittsburg Conference of Reform Rabbis,
1885. Publications: " Der Segen Jakobs; " "On Capital Punishment; " " Song of Songs; " "A Guide to Instruction in Judaism; "
" Ethical Basis of Judaism; " " Testament of Job; " "Church and
Synagogue in their Mutual Relations; " " Backwards or Forwards, Lectures on Reform Judaism;" " Pre-Talmudic Hagada."
Editor " Collected Writings of Rev. Dr. David Einhorn." Address: 3016 Stanton Av., Cincinnati, Ohio.
Kopfstein, Mayer. Born June 15, 1866, at Pressburg, Hungary. Son of Samuel Kopfstein. Rabbinical education at Pressburg, Mattersdorf, and Seret; secular education in Vienna, under
the guidance of Dr. A. Jellinek. Rabbinical diploma granted by
Rabbi Samuel Ehrenfeld. Held positions at Elmira, N. Y., for
two years; in Congregation Ansche Chesed, New York City, for
six years; in Congregation Hand in Hand, New York City, for
two years; and at Perth Amboy, N. J., for less than a year. Was
co-editor of Der Jude. Address: 162 East 108th, New York City.
Kornfeld, Joseph Saul. Rabbi of Congregation Anshe Emeth,
Pine Bluff, Ark. Born February 12, 1876, at Aranyos Marot, Hungary. Son of Hermann Kornfeld. Educated at the schools of
Nagy Topolcsany, Hungary; high school, Cincinnati; University
of Cincinnati (B. A., 1898); University of Chicago; and Hebrew
Union College (B. H. L. and Rabbi). Address: 715 W. 5th Av.,
Pine Bluff, Ark.
Kory, Solomon Lysander. Rabbi of Congregation Anshe
Chesed, Vicksburg, Miss. Born November 21, 1879. Son of Abraham Kory. Educated at public schools of New Orleans, La., and
Cincinnati, Ohio; University of Cincinnati (B. A., 1902); and Hebrew Union College (B. H. L., B. D., and Rabbi). Address: Vicksburg, Miss.
KouTcik, Leon. Cantor of Congregation Beth Elohim, Brooklyn, N. Y. Born September 20, 1878, at Moscow, Russia. Son of
Jacob Kourcik. Educated in Russia. Address: 143 Avenue B,
New York City.
Krasnowetz, Nathan. Rabbi (since 1903) of Congregation
Adath Israel, Owensboro, Ky. Born August 1, 1879, at Odessa,
Russia. Son of Paul-Henry Krasnowetz. Educated at public
schools of Milwaukee, Wis.; University of Cincinnati (B. L., 1899;
M. A., 1903); and Hebrew Union College (B. H. L., 1899, and
Rabbi, 1903). Acting Rabbi of Congregation Bethel, Muncie, Ind.,
J901-1903, Address; Qwensboro, Ky,
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Krauskopf, Joseph. Rabbi of Congregation Keneseth Israel,
Philadelphia, Pa. Born January 21, 1858. Son of Hirsch Krauskopf. Rabbi and D. D., Hebrew Union College; B. A., University
of Cincinnati. Was Rabbi at Kansas City, Mo. One of the organizers of the Jewish Publication Society of America; founder and
President National Farm School; Special Relief Commissioner to
Cuba, 1898. Publications: "Jews and Moors in Spain;" "Evolution and Judaism;" "A Rabbi's Impression of the Oberammergau
Passion Play." Address: 122 West Manheim, Germantown, Pa.
Krauskopf, Marcus. Rabbi (since 1893) of Congregation
Atereth Israel, New York City. Born January 20, 1848, at Merklin, Bohemia. Son of Joseph Krauskopf. Educated at Pilsen,
Bohemia. Rabbinical diploma conferred by Rabbi Angelus Kafka,
Pilsen. Rabbi of Congregation Shearith B'nai Israel, New York
City, 1883-1893. Past Grand Master Independent Order Free Sons
of Israel. Address: 236 East 79th, New York City.
Kulberg, Osias. Minister of Congregation Sons of Abraham,
Minneapolis, Minn. Born August 15, 1834, in Austria. Son of
Simon Kulberg. Address: 1709 East 19th, Minneapolis, Minn.
Landau, Edmund A. Rabbi (since 1898) of Congregation
B'nai Yisroel, Albany, Ga. Born December 17, 1875, at Hamilton,
Ont., Can. Son of Rabbi Wolf Landau and Emma Alderman. Educated at public schools, Bay City, Mich.; University of
Cincinnati; and Hebrew Union College. Editor of the H. U. C.
Journal, 1897-1898. Address: Albany, Ga.
Landau, Wolf. Rabbi (since 1877) of the Hebrew Reform Congregation, Bay City, Mich. Born April 3, 1841, near Konigsberg,
Prussia. Son of Eliezer Landau, and descended from a long line
of Rabbis and teachers. Educated in Germany and Sweden.
Rabbi at Schenectady, N. Y., 1864; Honesdale, Pa., 1865-1871;
Titusville, Pa., 1872; Zanesville, Ohio, 1873; and Hamilton, Ont.,
1874-1876. Address: 417 Adams, Bay City, Mich. (Deceased.)
Landsberg 1 , Max. Rabbi (since 1871) of Congregation Berith
Kodesh, Rochester, N. Y. Born February 26, 1845, at Berlin,
Germany. Son of Rabbi Meyer LarTdsberg (Rabbi at Hildesheim,
1846-1870). Educated privately by his father, and at the Gymnasium Josephinum at Hildesheim, the Universities of Gottingen,
Breslau, and Berlin, and the Jewish Theological Seminary, Breslau. Ph. D., University of Halle. Rabbinical diplomas conferred
by Dr. L. Adler, Cassel; Dr. Sam. E. Meyer, Hanover; and Dr.
Abraham Geiger. Was assistant to his father, and taught at the
Teachers' Seminary, Hanover,
Publications; "Hymns for
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Jewish Worship; " "Ritual for Jewish Worship." Address: 420
Main St., E., Rochester, N. Y.
Lasker, Hyman Max. Rabbi of Congregation Sharah Tephilah, Troy, N. Y. Born Adar 7, 5626, at Lomzha, Poland. Son of
Wolf Lasker. Educated at Talmudical College at Kovno, Russia.
Rabbinical diploma conferred by Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Spector,
Kovno. Was Rabbi at Bludne, Russia; Portland, Maine; and Buffalo, N. Y. (Congregation B'nai Jacob). Came to America in the
"eighties." Address: 7 Division, Troy, N. Y.
Lasker, Raphael. Rabbi Emeritus of Congregation Ohabei
Shalom, Boston, Mass. Born February 19, 1838, at Zirke, Prussia.
Educated by his father, Rabbi Caro, Pinne; Rabbi Hirsch Schneidemiihl, Obornick; and Rabbis Moses Feilchenfeld and Mendel,
Rogasen, all in Posen; and at the Gymnasium of Gleiwitz and the
University of Giessen. Was Rabbi and founder of Congregation
Bnai Abraham, Portsmouth, Ohio, 1858; Rabbi of Congregation
Shaar Hashomayim, New York City, for nine years; of Temple
Israel, Brooklyn, N. Y., 1871-1876. Member of the Boston Public
School Board for six years. Editor of the New Era Jewish Magazine. Address: 31 Doane, Boston, Mass.
Lefkovits, Maurice. Rabbi of Congregation Monteflore, Las
Vegas, N. M. Born February 15, 1875, at Sator-Alja Ujhely, Hungary. Son of Hyam Lefkovits. Educated at Gymnasium of Pressburg, Hungary, and the Universities of Bern (Ph. D.), Marburg,
and Berlin, and the Hebrew Union College (Rabbi, 1902). Publications: " Die Staatslehre auf kantischer Grundlage; " " The
Book of Koheleth." Address: P. O. Box 482, Las Vegas, N. M.
Lefkowitz, David. Rabbi (since 1900) of K. K. B'nai Yeshurun, Dayton, Ohio. Born April 11, 1875, at Eperies, Hungary.
Son of Benjamin Lefkowitz. Educated at public schools of New
York City; College of the City of New York (B. S.); University of
Cincinnati (B. L.); and Hebrew Union College (Rabbi, 1900).
Address: 18 South Boulevard, Dayton, Ohio.
Leipziger, Emil William. Rabbi of Temple Israel, Terre
Haute, Ind. Born December 18, 1877, at Stockholm, Sweden. Son
of Herman Leipziger. University of Cincinnati (B. A.), and Hebrew Union College (B. H. L. and Rabbi). Address: 706 South
5th, Terre Haute, Ind.
Leiser, Joseph. Rabbi of Temple Emanuel, Rondout, N. Y.
Born in 1873, at Canandaigua, N. Y. Son of F. M. Leiser and
Hannah Stargradt. Educated at Rochester, N. Y., and University
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of Chicago (B. A.)- Rabbinical diploma conferred by Rabbi Dr.
E. G. Hirsch. Was Rabbi in Sioux City, Iowa, and Lafayette,
Ind. Member of Summer Brook Colony, and of Arts and Crafts
League. Publications: "Before the Dawn" (poems); "From
Generation to Generation" (novel); and short stories published
in the American Israelite, Menorah, and Jewish Gazette. Articles
in the Reform Advocate. Address: Kingston, N. Y.
*Leucht, Isaac L. Rabbi of Congregation Gates of Mercy of the
Dispersed of Judah, New Orleans, La. Son of Nahum Zevi
Leucht. Member Executive Committee National Conference of
Jewish Charities. Address: 844 Carondelet, New Orleans, La.
Leucht, Joseph. Rabbi (since 1868) of Temple B'nai Jeshurun, Newark, N. J. Born March 15, 1840, in Darmstadt, Hessen.
Son of Nahum Zevi Leucht. Educated in the Realschule of Darmstadt. Rabbinical studies at Zell, near Wiirzburg, Bavaria.
Rabbi and Cantor of the Baltimore Hebrew Congregation, 18591868. Address: 49 James, Newark, N. J.
Levi, Charles S. Rabbi (since 1898) of Anshai Emeth Congregation, Peoria, 111. Born May 20, 1868, at London, Eng. Son
of Sampson Levi. Educated in New York City; at grammar and
high school, Cincinnati; University of Cincinnati (B. A.); and
Hebrew Union College (Rabbi, 1889). Associate Rabbi of Temple
B'nai Yeshurun, Cincinnati, 1889-1898; Assistant Professor in
Rabbinica at Hebrew Union College, 1889-1898; Secretary Central
Conference of American Rabbis, 1889-1898; Treasurer Central Conference of American Rabbis, 1899 to date; compiler and editor of
Year Book of the Conference, 1890-1898. Address: National Hotel,
Peoria, 111.
Levi, Harry. Rabbi (since 1897) of Congregation Leshem Shamayim, Wheeling, W. Va. Born August 7, 1875, at Cincinnati,
Ohio. Son of Isaac Levi and Belle Engelstein. Educated at public schools of Cincinnati, Ohio; University of Cincinnati; and Hebrew Union College (Rabbi, 1897). Publications: "A History of
Congregation Leshem Shamayim; " " Jewish Characters in English Fiction." Address: Eoff St. Temple, Wheeling, W. Va.
Levin, J. M. Rabbi of Congregation Holche Yosher, Wilkes
Barre, Pa. Born July 15, 1870, at Konwalishka, Russia. Son of
David Levin. Educated in Russia at Volosin, Eiseshok, Oshmene,
Smargon, and Luptz. Rabbinical diplomas conferred by Rabbi
Isaac Elchanan Spector, Kovno; Rabbi Solomon, Vilna; and Rabbi
Jacob Joseph, New York City. Held positions at Fall River, Mass.;
Bayonne, N. J., and Jersey City, N. J. Publication: " Leket
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Yosher on Yore Deah." Address:
Barre, Pa.
116 South Lincoln, Wilkes
Levin, Judah L. Rabbi of United Orthodox Congregations,
Detroit, Mich. Born Nisan 6, 5623, at Trab, Government Vilna,
Russia. Son of Nahum P. Levin and Liba Abromovitz. Educated at Volosin and Kovno, Russia. Rabbinical diplomas received from Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Spector, Kovno, and Rabbi
Hirsch Leb Berlin, Volosin. Was Rabbi in Liskeveh, Government Suvalki, Russia; Rochester, N. Y.; and New Haven, Conn.
Address: 151 Division, Detroit, Mich.
Levin, Max. Cantor of Congregation Talmud Torah, Portland,
Ore. Born in Minsk, Russia. Son of Louis Levin. Educated at
Minsk and Kovno, Russia. Diploma conferred by I. Minsker.
Held positions in New York City; Montreal, Can.; and Winnipeg,
Manitoba. Address: 602 First, Portland, Ore.
Levinson, Meyer Abraham. Cantor of Congregation B'nai
Israel, New York City. Born January 4, 1870, at Kovno, Russia,
and educated there. Son of William Levinson. Address: 427
East 79th, New York City.
Levinthal, Bernhard Louis. Rabbi of Congregations Bnai
Abraham, Poale Zedek, Bnai Reuben, Shaare Zedek, Tifereth Israel, and Orsi Chayim, Philadelphia, Pa. Born May 12, 1864, at
Kovno, Russia. Son of Rabbi Abraham Levinthal. Educated at
Kovno, Vilna, and Bielostok, Russia. Rabbinical diplomas
awarded by Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Spector, Kovno, and Rabbi Samuel Mohilever. Honorary Vice-President Federation of American
Zionists, and Vice-President Union of Orthodox Rabbis of America. Founder of communal institutions in Philadelphia. Contributor to the press. Address: 716 Pine, Philadelphia, Pa.
Levy, Abraham B,. Rabbi of Congregation B'nai Abraham,
Chicago, 111. Born October 24, 1858, in Germany. Son of Leonard
Levy and Stella Bach. Educated under Dr. M. Lehmann, at Mayence; at Frankfort on the Main; at the Berlin Lehrer Seminar;
and the University of Georgia (B. Ph., 1884). Was Rabbi at
Frankisch Crumbach, Germany; Erie, Pa.; and Waco, Tex. Founder (1880) and Corresponding Secretary Jewish Agriculturists'
Aid Society of America. Address: 1180 Douglas Bldg., Chicago,
111.
*Levy, David. Rabbi of Congregation Mishkan Israel, New
Haven, Conn. Address: 169 Audubon, New Haven, Conn.
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I*evy, Joseph Leonard. Rabbi of Congregation Rodeph Shalom, Pittsburg, Pa. Born November, 18G5, in London, Eng. Son
of Rabbi Solomon Levy. Educated at Jews' College, and University College (B. A.), London. Was Rabbi in the Bristol
(Eng.) Hebrew Congregation; Congregation B'nai Israel, Sacramento, Cal.; and Congregation Keneseth Israel, Philadelphia, Pa.
Founder of Philadelphia Sterilized Milk, Ice, and Coal Society,
and of the Home of Delight, Philadelphia. Publications: Translation of " Tractate Rosh Hashana of the Babylonian Talmud; "
"Home Service for the Passover; " "The Children's Service; "
"A Book of Prayer; " "The Jews' Belief; " Sunday Lectures (ten
vols.). Address: 1526 Denniston Av. E. E., Pittsburg, Pa.
Levy, Meyer S. Rabbi (since 1891) of Congregation Beth
Israel, San Francisco, Cal. Born January 16, 1852, at London,
Eng. Son of Rabbi Solomon Levy (Minister of the Boro' Synagogue, London). Educated at the Jews' Free School, London.
M. A. (Hon., 1880), University of the Pacific. Rabbi of Bikour
Cholim Congregation, San Jose, Cal., 1872-1881; and of First Hebrew Congregation, Oakland, Cal., 1881-1891. Released thirtyseven Galicians from penal servitude at Honolulu, and performed
first Jewish marriage there. Consecrated first Jewish cemetery at
Tacoma, Wash. Address: 1230 Ellis, San Francisco, Cal.
Iiewlnthal, Isidore. Rabbi of Congregation Ohavai Sholom,
Nashville, Tenn. Born October 17, 1849, at Seelow, Germany. Son
of Solomon Lewinthal and Dinah Elcus. Educated in Germany.
Rabbinical diploma conferred by Rabbi Jas. K. Gutheim. Held
positions in Baton Rouge, La., and San Antonio, Texas. Publication: "Scripture Questions." Address: 1912 West End Av., Nashville, Tenn.
Xieberman, Max. Cantor (since 1903) of Congregation Shearith Israel, Baltimore, Md. Born September 14, 1867, at BrestLitovsk, Russia. Son of Simcha David Lieberman. Musical, Talmudical (under Rabbi Joseph Beer Solavaitzik) and secular education in the schools of Brest-Litovsk. Came to America in 1891.
Held positions, in various capacities, in Congregation Tree of
Life, Pittsburg, Pa.; Congregation Gemiluth Chesed, Titusville,
Pa.; First Hebrew Orthodox Congregation, Bradford, Pa.; Congregation Bnei Moshe, Evansville, Ind.; Congregation Adath Israel,
Nashville, Tenn.; and Congregation Beth Israel, Milwaukee, Wis.
Address: Baltimore, Md.
Lifshitz, Sander. Rabbi (since 1894) of Congregations Ahave
Sholem and Yad Haruzim, Cincinnati, Ohio. Born in 5006 at
Minsk, Russia. Son of Eliezer Haim Lifshitz. Educated in Rus-
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sia at Minsk, Stavisk, Volosin, and Lomzha. Rabbinical diploma
conferred by Rabbi Misel, Lodz, and Rabbi Levin, Vilna. Address:
566 Carlisle Av., Cincinnati, Ohio.
Light, Fabian. Rabbi of Congregation Ateris Zvie. Born in
Pudewitz, Germany. Son of Israel Light. Educated at Posen.
Rabbinical diploma granted by Rabbi Moses Ungar. Was Rabbi
in Congregation Darech Amuno, New York City. Address: 178
East 108th, New York City.
•Liknaitz, David. Rabbi at Syracuse, N. Y. Studied at the
Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Address: 607 East Lafayette, Syracuse, N. Y.
Loewenberg, William. Cantor of Congregation Rodeph Shalom, Philadelphia, Pa. Born in 1854, at Frankfort on the Main.
Son of Ferdinand Loewenberg. Educated at the Realschule der
israelitischen Religions Gesellschaft, Frankfort, and Hebrew
Union College. Held positions in John Street Temple, Cincinnati, Ohio; Congregation Shaar Hashomayim, New York City;
and Ansche Chesed, Scranton, Pa. Publication: "Union
Hymnal" (in collaboration with others). Address: 1842 North
13th, Philadelphia, Pa.
Lubin, Jacob. Minister (since 1898) of Congregation Beth
Israel, Plattsburg, N. Y. Born January 13, 1859, in Germany.
Son of Hyman Lubin. Educated in Germany. Diplomas conferred by Dr. Oppenheim, Thorn, and Dr. Rosenstein, Graudenz.
Held positions in Rathenow, Brandenburg, Prussia; Regenwalde, Pommerania, Prussia; Pottsville, Pa., for four years;
Trenton, N. J., for two years; Orange, N. J., for live years; and
New York City, for one year. Address: 57 Cornelia, Plattsburg,
N. Y.
Lublinsky, Morris. Cantor of Temple Zichron Ephraim, New
York City. Born September 6, 1855, at Wloclawek, Poland. Son
of Heyman Lublinsky. Educated at Konigsberg, Prussia. Diplomas conferred by Royal Music Director Weintraub, L. Lewandowski, C. Berneker, M. Landien, and others. Held positions in
Schneidemlihl and Thorn, Prussia. Address: 242 East 71st,
New York City
Xuebke, 3VC. J. Cantor and Lecturer in Congregation Shaare
Zedek, Brooklyn, N. Y. Born February 22, 1843, at Hamburg,
Germany. Son of Joseph Luebke. Educated at Altona. Rabbinical diploma conferred by Jacob Aaron Ettlinger. Was Rablii
of Congregations Bikur Cholim and Gates of Hope, New York
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City, and of Congregation Sheerith Yisroel and Temple Beth El,
Brooklyn, N. Y. Address: 174 Eckford, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Lyons, Alexander. Rabbi of Congregation Beth Elohim,
Brooklyn, N. Y. Born June 19, 1867, at Mobile, Ala. Son of
Samuel Lyons. Educated at public schools of Mobile; University of Cincinnati (B. L.); Columbia University; and Hebrew
Union College (Rabbi). Was Rabbi at Terre Haute, Ind., and
Albany, N. Y. Married IdaEisendrath, Chicago, June 15, 1902.
Publications: " Bible Talks; " " Story of Passover; " " Story
of Purim." Address: 224 Carroll, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Machol, M. Rabbi (since 1S76) of Anshe Chesed Congregation, Cleveland, Ohio. Born November 13, 1845, at Kolmar-inPosen. Son of Zadik Machol. Educated at Gymnasium of
Schneidemuhl, Germany; University of Breslau (Ph. D.); and
Theological Seminary of Breslau (Rabbi). Rabbi m Leavenworth, Kan., 1869-1872;' and Chicago, 111. (Congregation Anshe
Maarabh), 1872-1876. Address: 216 Kennard, Cleveland, Ohio.
Magil, Julius M. Rabbi (since 1900) of Temple' Beth El,
Corsicana, Texas. Born December 29, 1870, at Mitau, Courland,
Russia. Son of Mendel Magil. Educated at Realgymnasium
and University of Zurich, Switzerland; and Talmudical College
of Grobin, Courland (Rabbi). Studied medicine at Fort Wayne
Medical College. Ph. D., Rogers College, 1898. Rabbi at Allentown, Pa., 1892-1894; Reading, Pa., 1894-1896; and Ligonier, Ind.,
1896-1900. Editor of the Jewish Home Journal, 1896-1900. Publications: "From Pulpit and Platform;" "Biblical History;"
"Medicine in Bible, Talmud, and Ancient History; " " Fiihrer
der Rathlosen." Address: Corsicana, Texas.
Maisner, Moses. Minister of Congregation Adath Israel, New
York City. Born October 19, 1838, at Deva Wanya, Hungary.
Son of Jehudah Maisner and Hannah Schlesinger. Educated at
the University of Pest (Ph. D.), and at Pressburg. Rabbinical
diploma conferred by Rabbi A. S. B. Sofer, Pressburg. Was Rabbi
of the Gomor District, Hungary; and of Congregations Shaare
Zedek, Shaaray Teflllah, and Adath Israel, New York City. Publications: " Mateh Mosheh" (for religious schools); " Sefer
Chasokoh" (a Talmudical discussion). Address: 10 West 115th,
New York City.
Mandel, Jacob. Rabbi of Congregation Ansche Chesed, New
York City. Born December 27, 1857, at Ungvar, Hungary. Son
of Ignatz Mandel. Educated in Hungary, Berlin, and University of the City of New York (M. A. and Ph. D.). Rabbinical
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Diplomas granted by Rabbis in Hungary. Address: 62 West
118th, New York City.
*Mandel, Morris. Rabbi at Allentown, Pa. Holds Rabbinical
diploma of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.
Mandelberg, Joseph. Cantor of Congregation Ansche Chesed,
New York City. Born September 25, 1875, in Austria, and educated there. Son of Pinkas Mandelberg. Address: 17 West
114th, New York City.
Mannheimer, Eugene. Rabbi of Mount Sinai Congregation,
Sioux City, Iowa. Born November 3, 1880, at Rochester, N. Y.
Son of Rabbi Sigmund Mannheimer. Educated at public schools
of Cincinnati, Ohio; University of Cincinnati (B. A.); and Hebrew Union College (Rabbi). Address: 412 Twelfth, Sioux City,
Iowa.
Mannheimer, Leo. Rabbi (since 1902) of Mizpah Congregation, Chattanooga, Tenn. Born June 11, 1878, at Rochester, N. Y.
Son of Rabbi Sigmund Mannheimer. Educated at University of Cincinnati (B. A.); Hebrew Union College (Rabbi); and
University of Berlin. Address: 306 High, Chattanooga, Tenn.
*Marcus, Jacob. Rabbi of Temple Children of Israel, Elmira,
N. Y. Address: 108 High, Elmira, N. Y.
Marmor, Jacob David. Cantor (since 1889) of the Baltimore
(Md.) Hebrew Congregation. Born May 23, 1855, at Poliavo,
Government Kamenetz-Podolsk, Russia. Son of Solomon Marmor (Rabbi of Liveranten Schule, Berdichev). Talmudic education received from father; musical education from Yerochom
Blindman and at the St. Petersburg Imperial Conservatory;
higher collegiate education at the same Conservatory and at the
Johns Hopkins University. Holds diploma of the St. Petersburg
Imperial Conservatory of Music, to which he was admitted as a
student by the personal intervention of the Minister of the Interior, who set aside the Governor's veto based upon the law permitting only a three days' sojourn to Jews in St. Petersburg.
Was Cantor of Polonnoe and the surrounding district, 1873; and
of Radomysl, 1875. Member American Association for the Advancement of Science. Publications: Articles in the Hamelitz,
Baltimore Sun, Baltimore American, New York Evening Post,
the Omega, and Jewish Comment. Address: 1812 McCulloh, Baltimore, Md.
Margolies, Moses Z. Rabbi of Congregations Beth Israel,
Beth Jacob, and Anshei Libavitz, Boston, Mass. Born April,
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1851, at Kroz, Russia. Son of Solomon Margolies. Rabbinical
diploma received from Rabbi Heilpern, Bielostok, Russia, and
others. Held Rabbinical positions in Russia for thirteen years.
Address: 3 Baldwin PL, Boston, Mass.
Margolis, Elias. Rabbi (since 1903) of Temple Bmanu-Bl,
Pueblo, Colo. Born July 15, 1879, at Merecz, Government Vilna,
Russia. Son of Rabbi Isaac Margolis and Hinda Zirilstein. Educated at public schools of New York City; Professor Felix Adler's Ethical Culture School; high school, Cincinnati, Ohio;
University of Cincinnati (B. A., 1900); University of California;
and Hebrew Union College (Rabbi, 1901). Rabbi of Congregation Re'im Ahuvim, Stockton, Cal., 1901-1903. Address: Pueblo,
Colo.
Marx, David. Rabbi of Hebrew Benevolent Congregation, Atlanta, Ga. Born April 29, 1872, at New Orleans, La. Son of
Solomon Marx. B. L., University of Cincinnati; B. H. L. and
Rabbi, Hebrew Union College. Was Rabbi at Birmingham, Ala.
Publication: "Children's Service." Address: 270 Whitehall, Atlanta, Ga.
Mayer, Adolph. Rabbi of Congregation B'ne Zion, Danville,
Pa. Born April 4, 1843, at Mayence, Germany. Son of Rabbi
Abraham Levi Mayer. Educated at Southern College, Richmond, Va. Rabbinical diploma conferred by his father. Held
positions in Richmond, Va., and Baltimore, Md. Address: Danville, Pa.
Mayer, Eli. Rabbi of
Born January 27, 1880, at
Mayer. B. A., University
College. Address: Helena,
Congregation Beth El, Helena, Ark.
Baltimore, Md. Son of Rabbi Adolph
of Cincinnati; Rabbi, Hebrew Union
Ark.
Mayer, H a r r y H. Rabbi (since 1899) of Congregation B'nai
Jehudah, Kansas City, Mo. Born January 24, 1874, at Allegheny,
Pa. Son of Rabbi Lippman Mayer and Elise Hecht. Educated at
public schools of Allegheny; Piersol's Academy, Beaver, Pa.; University of Cincinnati (B. A.); University of Berlin; University of
Strassburg; and Hebrew Union College (B. H. L., and Rabbi).
Rabbi at Little Rock, Ark., 1897-1899. Contributor to Jewish and
secular press. Address: Kansas City, Mo.
Mayer, Lippman. Rabbi Emeritus (since 1901) of Congregation Rodeph Shalom, Pittsburg, Pa. Born August 3, 1841. Son
of Marx Mayer. Educated at Universities of Wiirzburg and Berlin; M. A. and Ph. D., Heidelberg. Rabbinical diploma conferred
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by Rabbis Fiirst, Geismar, and Schott, the Consistory of the Jews
of Baderi. Was teacher in Plato Seminary at Karlsruhe, Baden;
Rabbi at Gailingen, Baden; Rabbi of French Congregation, New
York City, 1869; of Congregation Mishkan Israel, Selma, Ala.,
1870, and of Congregation Rodeph Shalom, Pittsburg, Pa.,
1870-1901. Contributor to Jewish press. Address: 3116 Perryville Av., Allegheny, Pa.
Mayerowitz, Berachya. Rabbi of Congregation Ahavath
Achim, Atlanta, Ga. Born December, 1865, in Wegger, Government Kovno, Russia. Son of Rabbi David Mayerowitz. Educated in Riga and Tukum, Russia. Rabbinical diploma granted
by the Kovno Talmudical College. Held positions in Kansas
City, Mo., and Toledo, Ohio. Publication: "The Shield of the
Fathers," a commentary in Hebrew and English on the Ethics
of the Fathers. Address: 83 Gilmer, Atlanta, Ga.
Medvidovsky, Israel. Minister of Congregation Neve ZedekTalmud Torah, Portland, Ore. Born in 1865, in Russia, and
educated there. Son of Jacob Medvidovsky. Rabbinical diploma
conferred by Rabbi Levin, Rostov, Russia. Address: 200 Carruther, Portland, Ore.
Mendelsohn, G. Minister of Congregation Rodof Sholom,
Homestead, Pa. Born December 25, 1867, at Bausk, Courland,
Russia. Son of Mendel Mendelsohn and Hannah Gdaliewitz.
Educated at Vilna and Kovno, Russia. Diplomas conferred by
Rabbis of these two towns. Held positions in Sakinova, Russia;
Uniontown, Greensburg, and Punxutawney, Pa. Address: 538
Ammon, Homestead, Pa.
Mendelsohn, Samuel. Rabbi (since 1876) of Temple of Israel,
Wilmington, N. C. Born March 31, 1850, in Russia. Son of Feiwel Mendelsohn. Educated at Vilna, Russia; Berlin, Germany;
and Philadelphia, Pa. Rabbinical diploma conferred by the Faculty of Maimonides College, Philadelphia, Pa. LL. D., University
of North Carolina. Rabbi of Congregation Beth-El, Norfolk, Va.,
1873-1S7G. Publication: "The Criminal Jurisprudence of the
Ancient Hebrews." Address: Wilmington, N. C.
Mendes, Trederick de Sola. Rabbi (since 1874) of Congregation Shaaray Tefilla, New York City. Born July 8, 1850, in Jamaica, W. I. Son of Rabbi Abraham Pereira Mendes and Eliza
de Sola. Educated at London, Eng., and Breslau, Germans'.
B. A., 1869, University of London; Ph. D., 1871, University of
Jena; Rabbi, 1873, Haham Benjamin Artom, London. Publications: " Child's First Bible; " " Outlines of Bible History; " " De-
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fence, not Defiance" (anti-missionary). Address: 154 West 82d,
New York City.
•Mendes, H. Pereira. Minister (since 1877) of K. K. Shearith
Israel, New York City. Son of Rabbi Abraham Pereira Mendes
and Eliza de Sola. President Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of the United States and Canada; President New York
Board of Jewish Ministers; Honorary Vice-President Federation
of American Zionists. Address: 99 Central Park, West, New York
City.
Mendes, Isaac P. Rabbi Emeritus (since 1903) of Congregation Mickva Israel, Savannah, Ga. Born January 13, 1853, at
Kingston, Jamaica, W. I. Son of Joseph Mendes. Educated privately and at Northwick College, London, Eng. M. A and D. D.,
University of Georgia. Rabbi in Richmond, Va., 1873-1877; in
Savannah, Ga. (Mickva Israel Congregation), 1877-1903. Publications: " Pure Words," a collection of special prayers; and
" First Lessons in Hebrew." Address: 210 Gwinnett, W., Savannah, Ga.
Messing, Aaron J. Rabbi (since 1885) of Congregation B'nai
Sholom, Chicago, 111. Born June 18, 1840, at Argenau, near
Bromberg, Germany. Son of Rabbi Joseph Messing (author of a
number of Hebrew books). Educated at Breslau and Graetz,
Prussia, and Rostock, Mecklenburg. Rabbinical diplomas granted
by Rabbis E. Gutmacher, M. Feilchenfeld, and N. Caro. Ph. D.,
University of Rostock. Rabbi in Militsch, Silesia; MecklenburgSchwerin; New York City (1866); and San Francisco (18671885). Publications: " S'fath Eiver" (Hebrew Primer), and
" Torath E m e t h " (Catechism). Address: 4337 Vincennes Av.,
Chicago, 111.
Messing, Abraham Joseph.. Rabbi (since 1897) of Temple
Beth-Or, Montgomery, Ala. Born August 4, 1873, at Chicago, 111.
Son of Rabbi Aaron J. Messing. B. H. L. and Rabbi, Hebrew
Union College; B. A., University of Cincinnati. Rabbi of Temple
Anshai Emeth, Peoria, 111., 1896-1897. New synagogues built at
Peoria and at Montgomery during his incumbency. Address: 28
Clayton, Montgomery, Ala.
Messing, Henry J. Rabbi (since 1878) of United Hebrew
Congregation, St. Louis, Mo. Born March 10, 1848, at Gostyn,
Posen, Prussia. Son of Rabbi Joseph Messing. Educated in
Germany. Rabbinical diploma awarded by Rabbi Gedalya Tiktin, Breslau, Germany. Rabbi at Dubuque, Iowa, 1869; Williamsport, Pa., 1870-1877; and Peoria, 111., 1877-1878. Founder
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of Hebrew Free and Industrial School Society, St. Louis, 1880.
Address: 4439 Delmar Boul., St. Louis, Mo.
Messing, Mayer. Rabbi (since 1867) of the Indianapolis
(Ind.) Hebrew Congregation. Born December 10, 1843, at Genivkowo, Prussia. Son of Rabbi Joseph Messing. Educated at Graetz,
Prussia. Rabbinical diplomas received from Rabbi E. Gutmacher; Dr. Poper, Charnikow; and Dr. Cohen, Schwerin. Was
Rabbi in Neubuckow, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and Asken on the
Elbe, Germany. Address: 523 North Delaware, Indianapolis, Ind.
Meyer, Heyman. Cantor of the People's Synagogue at the
Educational Alliance, New York City. Born July, 1863, at Kuchar, near Plotzk, Poland. Son of Judah Meyer. Educated at
Warsaw, Poland, and London, Eng. Held positions in London,
Eng., and Buffalo, N. Y. Address: 254 Henry, New York City.
Meyer, Julius Henry. Rabbi (since 1900) of Congregation
Emanu-El, Milwaukee, Wis. Born July 18, 1874, at Thibodeaux,
La. Son of Lehman Meyer and Henrietta Levy. Educated at
public schools of New Orleans, La., and St. Louis, Mo.; high
school, Cincinnati, Ohio; University of Cincinnati (B. A.); and
Hebrew Union College (B. H. L. and Rabbi). Rabbi at Toledo,
Ohio, 1897-1900. Married Mabel Bloch, Toledo, June 26, 1900. Address: 276 Lyon, Milwaukee, Wis.
Meyer, Martin A. Rabbi (since 1902) of Congregation Beth
Emeth, Albany, N. Y. Born January 15, 1879, at San Francisco,
Cal. Son of Charles Meyer and Louisa Silberstein. Educated
at public schools, San Francisco; University of Cincinnati
(B. A.); and Hebrew Union College (Rabbi). Fellow American
School in Palestine, 1901-1902. Officiated as Rabbi at Charleston, W. Va., 1900-1901. Publications: Articles on Jews of Palestine in Jewish Comment, the Reform Advocate, and Emanuel.
Address: 149 Lancaster, Albany, N. Y.
Michnik, Nathan. Rabbi of Congregation Beth Israel, Woodville, Miss. Born September 20, 1863, at Bielitz, Austria. Son of
Joseph Michnik. Educated at Vienna and Pressburg. Rabbinical
diploma conferred by Rabbi Simon Schreiber, Cracow, Galicia.
Was Rabbi at Springfield, 111.; Helena, Mont.; Huntsville, Ala.;
Jonesboro, Ark., and Port Gibson, Miss.
Mielziner, Jacob. Rabbi (since 1900) of Congregation EmanuEl, Helena, Mont. Born September 19, 1877. Son of Rabbi
Moses Mielziner and Rosetta Levald. Educated at public schools
of Cincinnati; University of Cincinnati (B. A., 1900); and He-
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brew Union College (Rabbi, 1900). Address: 415 Eighth Av.,
Helena, Mont.
Miller, Kassel. Cantor of Congregation Bass Jacob, Lewiston,
Me. Born July 4, 1866, at Skidel, Poland. Son of Eyzer Miller.
Was Cantor at Pottsville and Philipsburg, Pa.; Steubenville and
Bellaire, Ohio; and Evansville, Ind. Address: 155 Pierce, Lewiston, Me.
Moll, Max S. Assistant Minister (since 1886) of Congregation Berith Kodesh, Rochester, N. Y. Born August 27, 1846, at
Graetz, Prussia. Son of Rabbi Simon Moll. Educated in Germany. Was Rabbi of Congregation Adereth El, New York City,
for four years; B'nai Jeshurun, Paterson, N. J., for two years;
Aitz Raanan, Rochester, N. Y., for seven years. Publications:
"Condensed German Grammar;" "Companion for Practical
Work." Address: 125 University Av., Rochester, N. Y.
*Morais, Henry S. Rabbi of Congregation Adath Yeshurun,
Syracuse, N. Y. Son of Dr. Sabato Morais. Was Rabbi of Congregation Jeshuat Israel, Newport, R. I. Address: 719 Almond,
Syracuse, N. Y.
Morris, Benjamin. Cantor of Congregation Beth Miriam,
Long Branch, N. J. Born December 17, 1844, in Poland. Son of
Abraham Jacob Morris. Educated in Poland, and in Berlin. Rabbinical diploma conferred by Dr. I. Hildesheimer, Berlin. Held
a position in London, Eng. Address: 83 Second Av., Long Branch,
N. J.
Moses, Alfred G. Rabbi of Congregation Shaarai Shomayim,
Mobile, Ala. Born at Livingston, Ala. Son of Rabbi Adolph
Moses and Emma Isaacs. Educated at public schools of Louisville, Ky.; privately by Dr. Abraham Flexner; at University of
Cincinnati (B. A.); and Hebrew Union College (B. H. L. and
Rabbi). Represents third generation of Rabbis. Occupies position once held by his father. Address: 407 Conti, Mobile, Ala.
Moses, Isaac S. Rabbi of Congregation Ahawath Chesed
Shaar Hashomayim, New York City. Born December 8, 1847, at
Santomichel, Posen. Son of Israel Baruch Moses. Educated at
Santomichel, Gleiwitz, and Breslau. Rabbinical diplomas conferred by Rabbi Solomon Rosenthal, Jarozin; and Dr. Bernard
Felsenthal, Chicago, 111. Was Rabbi at Quincy, 111.; Milwaukee,
Wis.; and Chicago, HI. Editor of Der Zeitgeist, 1880-1882. Publications: " T h e Pentateuch;" "The Historical Books of the
Bible; " "The Ethics of the Hebrew Scriptures; " "Sabbath
School Hymnals; " Prayer Books. Address: 118 East 55th, N§w
York City,
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Mosinter, E. M. Rabbi of Congregation Chased Schel Emeth,
Springfield, Ohio. Born in Russia in 1865. Son of Ralph Mosinter. Educated in Kovno. Rabbinical diploma conferred by
Rabbi M. Ziew, and Rabbi L. S. Schapiere. Was Rabbi at Pocahontas, Va., and Marietta, Ohio. Address: 137 East Main, Springfield, Ohio.
Mow'sonitz, Abraham H. Minister of Congregation Choi
Odom, Burlington, Vt. Born and educated in Russia. Diploma
conferred by Rabbi Jacob Joseph, New York. Address: 327 North
Winooski Av., Burlington, Vt.
Mueller, Ignatius. Rabbi of Congregation B'rith Shalom,
Louisville, Ky. Born June 10, 1857, at Eperies, Hungary. Son
of Marcus Mueller. Educated at Roman Catholic Gymnasium,
Kecskemet, Hungary; Berlin University (Ph. D.); and Hochschule fiir die Wissenschaft des Judenthums, Berlin. Rabbinical
diploma received from the Faculty of the Hebrew Union College.
Was Rabbi at Kalamazoo, Mich., and Des Moines, Iowa; teacher
of religion at the Realgymnasium, Leipzig; teacher at the
Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, Ohio; Professor of German
and Hebrew at the Kalamazoo College, and Professor of German at Highland Park Normal College. Publications: " Das
Leben und Wirken des Dr. Isaac M. Wise; " "The Gymnasium,
an Educational Institution of Germany and Austria-Hungary; "
and "Communism, an Essay." Address: 1131 Floyd, Louisville,
Ky.
Myers, Isidore. Rabbi (since 1897) of Congregation Ohabai
Shalome, San Francisco, Cal. Born February 15, 1856, at Suvalki, Poland. Son of Morris Myers. Educated at Suvalki and
Kalwarya, Poland; Melbourne (Australia) Hebrew School;
Scotch College; and Melbourne University (B. A). Rabbi at
Bendigo, Australia, 1880-1885; of East Melbourne Hebrew Congregation, 1885-1890; and of Shaar Hashamayim Congregation,
Montreal, Canada, 1896-1897. Taught University subjects in
schools at Melbourne. Organized public meetings in Victoria in
1886, and raised $5000 in aid of Russian Jews. Visited Palestine in 1890, and in three months rescued sixty Jewish souls from
the missionaries. Delivered two hundred public lectures, 18901895, on the Talmud and on Zionism in sixty cities in Great
Britain; lectured in New York City, 1895-1896. Publication:
"Gems from the Talmud." Address: 1836 Sutter, San Francisco, Cal.
Nelson, Leon M. Rabbi (since 1898) of Temple Israel, Brooklyn, N, Y. Born January 22, 1876, at Richmond, Va, Son of N.
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W. Nelson and Regina Stern. Educated at public schools of
Richmond, Va.; high school, Cincinnati, Ohio; University of Cincinnati (B. A.); Columbia University; and Hebrew Union College (Rabbi, Valedictorian). Address: 308 McDonough, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Newfield, Morris. Rabbi of Congregation Emanu-El, Birmingham, Ala. Born January 31, 1869, at Homonna, Hungary. Son
of Sabbatai Newfield. Educated at Royal Gymnasium (graduate); University and Rabbinical Seminary, Budapest; University of Cincinnati (B. A); and Hebrew Union College (Rabbi).
Studied medicine at University of Budapest. Was instructor at
Hebrew Union College. Received 33rd degree of Freemasonry
(1903). Publication: "Studies in Ecclesiastes." Address: 715
North 18th, Birmingham, Ala.
Newman, Julius. Born December 16, 1851, in Hungary. Son
of Joseph Newman. Educated at Budapest, Eisenstadt, and Pressburg, in Hungary. Rabbinical diploma conferred by Rabbi Schreiber (Sofer), Pressburg, and Dr. I. Hildesheimer, Eisenstadt.
Was Rabbi of Congregation Emanuel, for five years; of Congregation New Light, for two years; and of the Hungarian Congregation, for six years; all in Chicago, 111. Served in the Austrian
army, 1871-1873; as postmaster in Hungary, for two years; as
correspondent for a Vienna newspaper, for three years. Address:
508 44th Place, Chicago, 111.
Newman, Morris. Cantor of First Hungarian Congregation
Agudath Achim, Chicago, 111. Born May 25, 1870, in Hungary.
Son of Ma*yer Newman. Educated at Topolcsany and Szatmar,
Hungary. Held positions in McKeesport and Scranton, Pa. Address: 412 West 14th, Chicago, 111.
Newmarfe, Hyman. Cantor (since 1880) of Temple Israel of
Harlem, New York City. Born October, 1857, at Warsaw, Poland.
Son of Moses Newmark. Educated at Warsaw, and Breslau, Germany. Diplomas conferred by Obercantor Professor F. Weisshoff, Warsaw, and Obercantor Deutsch, Breslau. Held positions
in Reichthal, Upper Silesia, for one year, and Rondout, N. Y.,
for two years. Address: 240 West 121st, New York City.
Nieto, Jacob. Rabbi of Congregation Sherith Israel, San Francisco, Cal. Born December 22, 1863, at London, Eng. Son of
Abraham Haim Nieto. Educated at Jews' College, London, Eng.
(graduate); College of the City of New York; by Emanu-El
Theological Seminary Association; and at Collegiate School,
Kingston, Jamaica. Was Minister of Sheffield (Eng.) Hebrew
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Congregation; and teacher at Jews' Hospital and Orphan Asylum,
London, Eng. Editor of the New Occident. Publication: "The
Romance of Poverty" (collection of Jewish character sketches).
Address: 1719 Bush, San Francisco, Cal.
Noot, Isaac C. Minister (since 1873) of Congregation B'nai
Israel, New York City. Born in 1840, at Amsterdam, Holland.
Son of Simon Noot. Educated in New York City. Was Assistant
Minister of Congregation B'nai Israel, Philadelphia, Pa.; of Congregation Ohabei Shalom, Boston, Mass.; Minister of Congregation Darech Amuna, New York City; and instructor in the
Hebrew Education Society, Philadelphia, Pa. Has been connected
with Hebrew Free School Association as principal and instructor
for thirty-eight years. Address: 111 East 88th, New York City.
Norden, Aaron. Rabbi Emeritus of North Chicago Hebrew
Congregation. Born June 8, 1844, at Lissa, Posen, Prussia. Son of
Saul Norden. Educated at Lissa and Berlin. Rabbinical diploma
granted by Rabbi E. Gutmacher, Graetz, Prussia. Rabbinical
positions held in Baltimore, Md.; Natchez, Miss.; and Chicago, 111.
Address: 4639 Vincennes Av., Chicago, 111.
Philipson, Bavid. Rabbi (since 1888) of Congregation Bene
Israel, Cincinnati, Ohio. Born August 9, 1862, at Wabash, Ind.
Son of Joseph Philipson. Educated at high school, Cincinnati,
Ohio; University of Cincinnati (B. A.); Johns Hopkins University; and Hebrew Union College (Rabbi, 1883, and D. D.). Professor of Homiletics, Hebrew Union College; President Hebrew
Sabbath School Union. Member Board of Governors Hebrew
Union College, Publication Committee Jewish Publication Society of America, and Council American Jewish Historical Society.
Rabbi of Har Sinai Congregation, Baltimore, Md., 1884-1888.
Publications: "The Jew in English Fiction; " "Old European
Jewries; " "The Oldest Jewish Congregation in the West; " "A
Holiday Sheaf; " " Selected Writings of Isaac M. Wise " (edited
in conjunction with L. Grossmann); "Reminiscences by Isa«c M.
Wise " (translation); " Tendencies of Thought in Modern Judaism " (New World); " The Progress of the Jewish Reform Movement in the United States" (Jewish Quarterly Review); "The
Beginnings of the Reform Movement in Judaism " (Jewish Quarterly Review).
Philo, Isador E. Rabbi (since 1896) of the Akron (Ohio) Hebrew Congregation. Born July 24, 1873, at Cardiff, Wales. Son
of Rabbi Solomon S. Philo. B. A., College of the City of New
York; Ph. D., University of Illinois. Rabbinical diploma conferred by Rev. Dr. Falk Vidaver, San Francisco, Cal, Represents
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the sixth generation of Rabbis. Address: 133 Bast Market, Akron,
Ohio.
Philo, Solomon S. Rabbi of Congregation Ahavath Sholom,
Fort Worth, Texas. Born December 29, 1850, at Breslau, Germany. Son of Rabbi Moses Philo. Educated at Breslau, and
Warsaw, Poland. Rabbinical diploma conferred by the Rabbi
of Warsaw. Held positions at Breslau; Ostrowo, Prussia; in
Hungary; at Newark, N. J.; Atlantic City, N. J.; and Gainesville,
Texas. Address: Fort Worth, Texas.
Rabinovitz, Joseph. Rabbi of Congregation Adas Jeshuren,
Sioux City, Iowa. Born September 15, 1868, at Kovno, Russia,
and educated there. Son of Solomon Rabinovitz. Rabbinical
diploma received from Rabbi Mendelzive, Tauroggen, Russia.
Was Rabbi of Congregation Bnei Jacob, Rock Island, 111. Address: 617 Bluff, Sioux City, Iowa.
Radin, Adolph. M. Rabbi of the People's Synagogue at the
Educational Alliance, New York City. Born August 5, 1848, at
Neustadt Schirwindt, Poland. Son of Marcus Radin and Hinde
Ritow. Educated at Talmudical Colleges of Volosin and Eiseshok, and at Universities of Berlin, Konigsberg, and Greifswald
(Ph. D.). Rabbinical diploma conferred by Rabbi BezaJel Ash
and Rabbi Ab. Samuel Rossein, Eiseshok. Was Rabbi at Mewe
and Kempen, Prussia; Kalisz and Lodz, Poland; Elmira, N. Y.,
and New York City (Congregation Gates of Hope). Chaplain of Society for the Aid of Jewish Prisoners. Editor, for
three years, of Der Jiidische Grenzbote, Konigsberg, Prussia.
Contributor to Hebrew (Hamagid, Hamelitz, Hakarmel, Ibri Anochi, Hatsofeh), German (Allgemeine Zeitung des Judenthums,
ajnd Die Neuzeit), Polish (Israelita), and American Jewish
papers. Publications: " Offener Brief eines polnischen Juden
an Treitschke;" "Report of Visiting Chaplain" (English and
Hebrew). Address: 844 Teasdale Place, or Hebrew Charities
Building, New York City.
Radnitz, Samuel. Cantor of Congregation Beth Elohim,
Brooklyn, N. Y. Born August 10, 1863, at Mohilev, Russia. Son
of Selman Radnitz. Educated at Elizavetgrad, Russia. Officiated as Cantor in various Russian cities. For three years solo
singer at the Metropolitan Opera House, under Anton Seidl. Address: 31 St. Marks PL, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Rafalovitz, Simon. Rabbi of Congregation Agudas Achim,
Allentown, Pa. Born March 8, 1870, in Russia. Son of Abraham Rafalovitz. Educated at Kovno and Eiseshok, Russia.
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Rabbinical diplomas conferred by Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Spector
and Rabbi Majofls, Kovno, and Rabbi Salkind, New York. Was
Rabbi in Leipon, Government Vilna, Russia. Address: 623 North
2nd, Allentown, Pa.
Raisin, Jacob S. Rabbi of Congregation Gemiluth Chesed,
Port Gibson, Miss. Born November 15. 1876, at Nesvizh, Government Minsk, Russia. Son of Aaron S. Raisin. Educated privately and in Talmudical College of Miro; public schools of New
York City; College of the City of New York; University of Cincinnati (B. A.); and Hebrew Union College (Rabbi). Publications: " Life and Work of George Eliot" (Hebrew); "Beginning
of the Renaissance among Russian Jews; " "A Glimpse into
Jewish Science; " " The Maskilim in America." Address: P. O.
Box 77, Port Gibson, Miss.
Baisin, Max. Rabbi (since 1901) of K. K. Bene Abraham,
Portsmouth, Ohio. Born July 15, 1879, at Nesvizh, Government
Minsk, Russia. Son of Aaron S. Raisin. Educated in elementary schools in Russia; public schools, New York City; University of Cincinnati (B. A.); and Hebrew Union College (Rabbi).
Publications: "A History of the Jews in America" (Hebrew);
Contributor to Hebrew periodicals in Russia and Germany. Address: 72 East 7th, Portsmouth, Ohio.
Rapoport, Samuel. Rabbi of Congregation Beth Israel, Springfield, Mass. Born at Keidany, Government Kovno, Russia. Son
of Nison Rapoport. Educated at Kovno, Russia. Rabbinical
diploma received from Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Spector, Kovno.
Was Rabbi at Eivagoly, Russia. Address: 34 Grays Av., Springfield, Mass.
Rappaport, Julius. Rabbi (since 1891) of Congregation BethEl, Chicago, 111. Born January 10, 1863, at Debreczin. Hungary.
Son of Isaac Rappaport. Educated at Talmudical Colleges of
Pressburg and Losoncz, Hungary. Rabbinical diplomas granted
by Rabbi A. S. B. Sofer, Pressburg, and Rabbi Maier Perls, Nagy
Karoly. Address: 87 Potomac Av., Chicago, 111.
Rappaport, Solomon. Cantor of Congregation Shaaray Tefilla,
New York City. Born January 20, 1862, at Lemberg, Austria. Son
of Rabbi Chaim ha-Kohen Rappaport, his teacher of Bible, Talmud, Midrash, and Hazanut. Musical studies pursued at Prague;
Peabody Institute, Baltimore, Md.; and the National Conservatory of America, New York City. For nine years Cantor and
Preacher in Oheb Sholom Congregation, Newark, N. J. Studied
for two years at New York Law School. Publications: Articles
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in the American Hebrew. Address: 256 West 98th, New York
City.
Rapport, .N". Rabbi of Congregation Kneseth Israel, Reading, Pa. Born March 5, 1849, in Government Vitebsk. Son of
Levy Rapport. Educated at Vitebsk. Address: 544 South 7th,
Reading, Pa.
Reich., Siegmund Moses. Rabbi of Temple Beth Zion, Bradford, Pa. Born February 7, 1873, in Bohemia. Son of Isaac Reich.
Educated at College of the City of New York (B. A., 1895);
Columbia University (M. A., 1900); and Jewish Theological
Seminary of America. Rabbinical diploma conferred by Rabbi
Siegmund Richter, Neuhausl, Hungary. Instructor in Bible and
Hebrew Grammar in Jewish Theological Seminary of America,
1897-1899. Teacher in New York public schools, 1895-1897. Publication: " Edition of a Yemen Text Book for the Instruction of
the Jewish Child." Address: 86 Pleasant, Bradford, Pa.
Reichert, Isidor. Rabbi (since 1896) of Temple Beth-El,
Brooklyn, N. Y. Born December 29, 1869, at Konin, Poland.
Son of Isaac Reichert. Educated at Gymnasium in Kalisz, Poland, and at University of Berlin. Rabbinical diploma conferred
by Rabbi Hirsch Auerbach, Lissa. Was Rabbi of Congregation Bnai Sholaum, Brooklyn, for two years. Address: 177
Caliger, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Reichler, Moses. Rabbi of Congregation House of Jacob,
Utica, N. Y. Born Nisan 24, 5617, in Austria. Son of Baruch
Reichler. Educated at Rawa-ruska and Drohobycz, Austria.
Rabbinical diploma conferred by Rabbi Horshowsky, Drohobycz,
and Rabbi Jacob Joseph, New York City. Was Rabbi of Congregation Yshrei Leb, Drohobycz; Anshei Polen and Anshei
Breinsk, New York City. Address: 76 Liberty, Utica, N. Y.
Reiter, Naftali. Rabbi of First Galician Congregation Duckler Mugan Abraham, New York City. Born January 1, 1848,
in Hungary. Son of Moses Reiter and C. Pearl. Educated in
Hungary. Rabbinical diplomas conferred by Rabbi D. Deutsch,
Rabbi D. Schick, and Rabbi L. Yohns. Was Assistant Rabbi
to the late Chief Rabbi Jacob Joseph. Address: 65 Pitt, New
York City.
Reynolds, Louis G-. Rabbi of Congregation Bnai-Israel, Salt
Lake City, Utah. Born March 17, 1870, in Poland. Son of
Abram Jacob Reynolds. Educated at the Talmudical College of
Kovno; and completed a course at the Universities of Ziirich
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and Paris. Rabbinical diploma conferred by Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Spector, Kovno. Was Rabbi of Congregation Oheb Sholom, Newark, N. J., and Beth-Zion, Bradford, Pa. Address: 905
East 5th South, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Rezits, Heyman. Cantor (since 1887) of Congregation Adas
Kadosh, Wilmington, Del. Born May 5, 1862, in Russia. Son
of Abraham Rezits. Educated at Kovno, Russia. Rabbinical
diploma granted by Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Spector, Kovno.
Founded the Congregation Adas Kadosh. Address: 211 Orange
Wilmington, Del.
Rhine, Abraham Benedict. Rabbi of Congregation House of
Israel, Hot Springs, Ark. Born September 17, 1876, at Shavli,
Government Kovno, Russia. Son of Meyer Rhine. Educated
in public schools of New York City; by Emanu-El Theological
Seminary Association, New York City; at high school, Cincinnati,
Ohio; University of Cincinnati (B. A.); and Hebrew Union College (B. H. L., and Rabbi, 1902). Was editor of H. U. C. Journal.
Address: 14 Parker, Hot Springs, Ark.
Rogoff, Moses R. Cantor of Congregation Shaarey Zedek,
Detroit, Mich. Born March 25, 1852, in Russia. Son of Elias
Rogoff. Talmudic education received at Miro, Russia; musical
education at Odessa, Russia, and Konigsberg, Germany. Cantor's
diploma granted by Imperial Music Director H. Weintraub. Held
positions in Riga, Russia; New York City; Cleveland, Ohio; and
Pittsburg, Pa. Address: 330 Hastings, Detroit, Mich.
Rosenau, 2fathan. Rabbi of Congregation Har Sinai, Trenton,
N. J. Born at Wollstein, Germany. Son of William Rosenau.
Educated at Gross Glogau and Breslau. Rabbinical diplomas
conferred by Dr. Joel and Rabbi Mendelson, Krotoschin; Rabbi
Ettinger, Pleschen; Dr. Kline, Gross Glcgau; and Dr. Solomon
Cohen, Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Address: 19 Carroll, Trenton,
N. J.
Rosenau, William. Rabbi (since 1892) of Congregation Oheb
Shalom, Baltimore, Md. Born May 30, 1865, at Wollstein, Germany. Son of Rabbi Nathan Rosenau and Johanna Braun.
Educated at public schools and Gymnasium, Hirschberg,
Germany; public schools, Philadelphia, Pa.; high school, Cincinnati, Ohio; University of Cincinnati (B. A., 1888); Hebrew
Union College (Rabbi, 1889); Post-graduate course in Semitics,
Johns Hopkins University (Ph.D., 1900). Rabbi of Temple
Israel, Omaha, Neb., 1889-1892. Instructor in Rabbinica, Johns
Hopkins University, 1898-1903. Associate in Rabbinica, since
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1903. Member Baltimore Board of Education since 1899. Publications: " Semitic Studies in American Colleges; " " Hebraisms
in the Authorized Version of the Bible; " " Jewish Ceremonial
Institutions and Customs." Address: 825 Newington Av., Baltimore, Md.
Rosenbaum, Jacob. Rabbi of Congregation Agudath Achim,
Woodbine, N. J. Born January 13, 1864, in Russia, and educated
there. Son of Abraham Rosenbaum. Rabbinical diploma conferred by L. Maskalashan. Held positions in Konigsberg, Prussia,
and Brooklyn, N. Y. Address: Woodbine, N. J.
Rosenberg, Armin. Minister of Congregation Beth Israel,
Brooklyn, N. Y. Born March 8, 1S66, in Hungary. Son of Joseph
Rosenberg. Educated at Budapest. Address: 306 Union, Brooklyn. (Elected Cantor of Congregation Beth Israel, Philadelphia,
Pa.)
Rosenberg, Israel. Rabbi of Congregation Shomre Adath.
Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Born in 1874, at Lomzha, Poland. Son of
Gershon Rosenberg. Educated at Kovno, Slobodko, and Navarodok, in Russia. Rabbinical diplomas conferred by Rabbi Epstein,
Navarodok; Rabbi Sternfeld, Brisk; Rabbi Isaac Shloma Yeel,
Kovno; and others. Address: Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
Rosenberg, Solomon. Rabbi and Cantor of Temple Beth-El,
Jersey City, N. J. Born July 21, 1857, at Bielev Zerkov, Russia.
Son of Samuel Rosenberg. Studied at Talmudical College of
Pressburg, Hungary (Rabbinical diploma), and in Berlin and
London. Held positions at Marshall, Tyler, and Gainesville,
Texas; Jacksonville and Pensacola, Fla.; and Paterson, N. J.
Address: 561 Summit Av., Jersey City, N. J.
Rosenblum, Joseph Nathan. Rabbi of Congregation B'nai
Israel. Born in Russia. Son of Chatzkel Rosenblum. Address:
114 Milton Av., Chicago, 111.
Rosenfield, Zachariah J. Rabbi of Congregations
Israel and Shaireth Sphard, St. Louis, Mo. Born and
in Russia, and held positions there, and in New York
Baltimore, Md. Publication: " Tikvath Zachariah."
1007 North Tenth, St. Louis, Mo.
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Rosenthal, Adolf. Rabbi of Congregation Shearith B'nai
Israel, New York City. Born February 21, 1860, at Wongrowitz,
Germany. Son of Louis Rosenthal and Rosa Abraham. Educated at Gymnasium in Wongrowitz, and the University and
Jewish Theological Seminary (Rabbinical diploma) in Berlin.
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Held positions at Emden, Germany; in the Hebrew Orphan Asylum, Brooklyn, N. Y., and at Braddock, Pa. Publications: " Die
vier Charaktere; " " Das jiidische Weib als Erzieherin." Address:
1644 Park Av., New York City.
Hosenthal, F r a n k L. Rabbi of Congregation B'nai Israel,
Baton Rouge, La., and Temple Sinai, St. Francisville, La. Born
May 7, 1865, in New York City. Son of Rubin Rosenthal, who
conducted his Hebrew education. Secular education at public
schools of New York City; and the College of the City of New
York. Was Rabbi, for five years, of the Congregation House
of Israel, Hot Springs, Ark. Address: Baton Rouge, La.
Rosenthal, Isidore. Rabbi of Congregation Shaarai Shomayim,
Lancaster, Pa. Born May 10, 1872, at Greenport, L. I. Son of
Bernhard Rosenthal. Educated at public schools of New York
City; high school, Cincinnati, Ohio; University of Cincinnati
(B. A.); by Emanu-El Theological Seminary Association; and at
Hebrew Union College (Rabbi). Also studied law in Lancaster.
Married Florence Rosenstein, Lancaster, February 28, 1900. Address: 138 East Clay, Lancaster, Pa.
Rosentreter, Adolf. Rabbi (since 1884) of Congregation Bnei
Amoona, St. Louis, Mo. Born December 27, 1858, at Gollantsch,
Germany. Son of Meyer Rosentreter. Educated at Berlin. Rabbinical diploma granted by Dr. I. Hildesheimer. Held positions at Roebel, for three years; Meseritz, for two years; and
Kettwig, for one year. Address: 1012 Atchinson PL, St. Louis,
Mo.
Rosenzweig, Emanuel. Cantor and Rabbi of Congregation
Adath Israel of the Bronx, New York City. Born December, 1844,
in Russia. Son of Abraham Rosenzweig. Educated in Talmudical College of Berdichev, which conferred the title Rabbi. Held
positions in Bielostok, Russia; in Posen, Prussia; in Boston,
Mass., for four years; in the Henry Street Synagogue, New York
City, for fourteen years; and in Washington, D. C , for four
years. Address: 1240 Fulton Av., Bronx.
Roubin, Solomon. Rabbi of Congregation Agudath Achim,
Woodbine, N. J. Born August 24, 1854, at Suvalki, Poland.
Son of Moses Breschinski and Mary Sinai. Educated at
Talmudical Colleges of Suvalki, Pofland, and. Grosswardein
and Pressburg, Hungary. Rabbinical diploma conferred by
Rabbi A. S. B. Sofer, Pressburg. Was Rabbi at MezieTes,
French Lorraine, for eight years; Wittersheim, Alsace, for
three years; Assistant to Grand Rabbin Aristide Astruc at
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Bayonne, France, 1887-1892; Rabbi at Tyler, Texas, 1894; Butte,
Mont, 1897; and San Antonio, Texas, 1900-1901. Librarian of
Sutro Library, San Francisco, Cal., 1895. At present principal
of Hebrew School, and instructor in religion at Baron de Hirsch
Agricultural School, Woodbine. Sent, in 1887, by the Consistoire
Central of France, to establish a synagogue in Madrid (unsuccessful for lack of funds). Came to America in 1893. Publication: " A Scroll of the Law by Maimonides." Address: Woodbine, N. J.
Rubenstein, Charles A. Rabbi (since 1898) of Har Sinai Congregation, Baltimore, Md. Born in Riga, 1870. Son of Isaac
Rubenstein and Frieda Bliden. Educated at public schools of
Cincinnati, Ohio; University of Cincinnati (B. L.); Columbia
University (M. A.); and Hebrew Union College (Rabbi). Rabbi
at Little Rock, Ark., 1892-1897. Address: Har Sinai Temple,
Baltimore, Md.
Rubin, Barnet. Minister of Congregation Brith Shalom,
Charleston, S. C. Born January, 1834, at Radoskowitz, Government Vilna, Russia. Son of Moses Rubin. Educated at Minsk.
Officiated as Cantor in congregations in New York City, before
1872. Address: 12 Warren, Charleston, S. C.
Rubinson, Jacob. Rabbi of Congregation Kneseth Israel,
Reading, Pa. Born August 20, 1862, in Russia, and educated
there. Son of Charles Rubinson. Rabbinical diploma conferred
by Rabbi B. L. Levinthal, Philadelphia, Pa. Address: 240
Cedar, Reading, Pa.
Rubinstein, Isaac Aaron. Cantor (since 1895) of Khal Kodesh Bnei-Jisroile, Athens, Ga. Born January 15, 1866, at Shavian, Russia. Son of Israel Judah Rubinstein. Educated in
Talmudical Colleges of Suvalki and Kovno, Russia; secular education in London, Eng. Held positions in Cardiff, Wales; Sheffield, England; and Kimberley, South Africa. Chaplain of
Mount Vernon Lodge, A. F. and A. M. Honorary member of the
Athenaeum. Address: Athens, Ga.
Rypins, Isaac I*. Rabbi (since 1899) of Mount Zion Hebrew
Congregation, St. Paul, Minn. Born June 24, 1862, in Poland.
Son of Israel Rypins. Educated in Poland, Berlin, New York
City; high school of Cincinnati, Ohio; University of Cincinnati
(B. L.); and Hebrew Union College (Rabbi). Was Rabbi at
Evansville, Ind., 1889-1899. Address: 763 Holly Av., St. Paul,
Minn.
Sachnowitz, Benjamin. Minister of Congregation Brothers of
Joseph, Norwich, Conn. Born in Rossein, Russia. Son of Isaac
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Sachnowitz. Educated at Vilna. Rabbinical diploma conferred
by Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Spector, Kovno; and Rabbi Jacob
Joseph, New York City. Address: 18 North Thames, Norwich,
Conn.
Sacks, H a r r i s W. Rabbi of Congregation Ohavei Zedek, Burlington, Vt. Born December 12, 1860, in Russia. Son of Isaac
Sacks. Educated at Kovno, Russia. Rabbinical diplomas conferred by Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Spector, Kovno, and Rabbi A. M.
Lapidos, Rossein, Government Kovno. Address: 42 First, Burlington, Vt.
Sadler, Bernard. Rabbi of Monteflore Congregation, Cairo,
111. Born September 15, 1854, at Kirchenbirk, Bohemia. Son of
Wolfgang Sadler and Nannie Berman. Educated at Realschule
of Elbogen, Bohemia. Officiated, during the holidays, at South
Bend, Ind., 1894-1895; and Owensboro, Ky., 1897. Organized
Montefiore Congregation in 1894. Address: 813 Commercial Av.,
Cairo, 111.
*Sale, Samuel. Rabbi of Congregation Shaare Emeth, St. Louis,
Mo. Born October 29, 1854, at Louisville, Ky. Son of Isaac Sale.
Educated at public schools of Louisville, and University of Berlin.
Rabbinical diploma conferred in Berlin. Was Rabbi of Har
Sinai Congregation, Baltimore, Md., and Anshe Maarabh Congregation, Chicago, 111. Occupies chair of Hebrew at Washington
University, St. Louis, Mo. Address: St. Louis, Mo.
Salinger, Simon 3?. Rabbi and Cantor (since 1895) of Congregation Adas Jeshurun, Louisville, Ky. Porn September 29, 1860,
in Poland. Son of Joseph Salinger. M. D., Western University
of Pennsylvania, 1897. Was Rabbi in Mehlsack, Germany, for
one year; London, Eng., for one year; Wilkes Barre, Pa.; Cleveland, Ohio; and Pittsburg, Pa., for six years. Address: 420 East
Chestnut, Louisville, Ky.
Salzman, Marcus. Rabbi of Congregation B'nai B'rith, Wilkes
Barre, Pa. Born December 11, 1871, at Baltimore, Md. Son of
Tobias Salzman and Fredericka Rosenheim. Educated at public
schools of Baltimore; University of Cincinnati (B. A.); and
Hebrew Union College (Rabbi). Was Rabbi at Charleston,
W. Va. Address: 62 North Main, Wilkes Barre, Pa.
Samfield, M. Rabbi (since 1871) of Congregation Children of
Israel, Memphis, Tenn. Born at Marksteft, Bavaria, in 1846. Educated by his father; at the Talmudical College of Rabbi Lazarus
Ottensosser, at Hoechberg; at the Realgymnasium and under Dr.
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J. Puerst, Baireuth; University of Wurzburg (Ph. D.); and Rabbi
Seligman Baer Bamberger, from whom he received the degree of
Rabbi. Came to America in 1867. Rabbi of Congregation B'nai
Zion, Shreveport, La., until 1871. Pounder Tennessee Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and Children; founder of
United Charities of Memphis; founder of Young Men's Hebrew
Association, Memphis; President Bebrew Relief Association, Memphis; Governor Hebrew Union College; Trustee Cleveland Jewish
Orphan Asylum; President of Southern Rabbinical Association.
Pounder and editor of the Jewish Spectator. Address: 104 Adams,
Memphis, Tenn.
Samuelson, Hyman. Cantor of Congregation Kneseth Israel,
San Francisco, Cal. Born in Russia, in 186S. Son of Cantor
S. Z. Samuelson. Educated at Vienna. Has held positions
abroad and in New York City. Address: 107 Russ, San Francisco, Cal.
*Schaffer, S. Rabbi (since 1893) of Congregation Shearith Israel, Baltimore, Md. Honorary Vice-President Federation of
American Zionists. Publication: "Das Recht und seine Stellung
zur Moral nach talmudischer Sitten-und Rechtslehre." Address:
2566 McCulloh, Baltimore, Md.
Schanfarber, Tobias. Rabbi of Congregation Anshe Maarabh,
Chicago, 111. Born December 20, 1862, at Cleveland, Ohio. Son
of Aaron Schanfarber and Sara Newman. Educated at public
schools of Cleveland, Ohio; University of Cincinnati (B. A.);
Johns Hopkins University; and Hebrew Union College (Rabbi).
Was Rabbi at Toledo, Ohio; Fort Wayne, Ind.; Baltimore, Md.;
and Mobile, Ala. Was editor of Jewish Comment, Baltimore,
Md.; Jewish Chronicle, Mobile. Ala.; and Reform Advocate,
Chicago, 111. At present, editor of Chicago Israelite. Address:
4049 Grand Boulevard, Chicago, 111.
Schaumberg', Sol. Rabbi of Congregation Moses Monteflore,
Marshall, Texas. Born November 24, 1865, at Schweinsberg,
Hessen, Germany. Son of Isaac Schaumberg. Educated at Marburg and Hanover, Germany. Diploma conferred by the Teachers'
Seminary, Hanover. Held positions in Easton, Pa., and Schenectady, N. Y. Address: Marshall, Texas.
Schlesinger, Max. Rabbi Emeritus (since 1903) of Congregation Beth-Emeth, Albany, N. Y. Born February IS, 1837, at
Vitschen, Silesia. Son of Joseph Schlesinger. Educated at
Gymnasium of Oppeln, Prussia; Theological Seminary of Breslau;
and University of Prague (M. A. and Ph. D.). Rabbinical
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diploma conferred by Professor Dr. Saul Isaac Kaempf, Prague.
Only position as Rabbi of Congregation Beth-Emeth, Albany,
N. Y. Publication: " The Historical Jesus of Nazareth." Address: 334 Hudson Av., Albany, N. Y.
Schneeberger, Henry William. Rabbi (since 1876) of Congregation Chizzuk Emoonah, Baltimore, Md. Born September, 1848,
in New York City. Son of Sigmund Schneeberger. Educated at
private schools of Mr. Sachs and Dr. Anthon, New York City;
Columbia College (B. A., M. A., and Ph.D.); under Dr. M. Lehmann, in Mayence, Germany; and Dr. I. Hildesheimer in Eisenstadt, Hungary, and Berlin. Rabbinical diploma received from
Dr. I. Hildesheimer, Berlin. Was Rabbi of Congregation Poel
Zedek, New York City, 1872-1876. Married Sarah Nussbaum,
New York City, April 19, 1882. Publication: " Life and Works
of Rabbi Yehuda Ha-Nasi." Address: 1628 Druid Hill Av.,
Baltimore, Md.
Sclioenbrun, Emanuel. Rabbi of Congregation Kneset Israel,
Cleveland, Ohio. Born July 20, 1859, at Nagy-Kapos, Hungary.
Son of Abraham Schoenbrun. Educated at Waitzen and DeutschKreutz, Hungary. Rabbinical diploma conferred by Rabbi Silberstein and Rabbi E. Prossnitz. Address: 304 Scovil Av.,
Cleveland, Ohio.
Schorr, Israel. Cantor of Temple Israel, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Born August 20, 1870, at Lemberg, Austria. Son of Baruch
Schorr. Educated at Vienna. Held a position in the Congregation Oheb Sholom, Newark, N. J. Address: 214 Hooper,
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Schreiber, Emanuel. Rabbi of Congregation Emanuel, Chicago, 111. Born December 13, 1852, at Leipnik, Moravia. Son of
Herrmann Schreiber. Educated at Gymnasium of Kremsier,
Austria; University of Berlin; Talmudical College of Rabbi Moses
Bloch, Leipnik; Rabbinical Seminary of Dr. I. Hildesheimer in
Eisenstadt, Hungary, and in Berlin; and by Dr. A. Geiger, at the
Berlin Hochschule fur die Wissenschaft des Judenthums. Ph. D.,
University of Heidelberg. Rabbinical 'diplomas granted by
Dr. Abraham Geiger, Berlin; Lazarus Adler, Cassel; Elias Griinebaum, Landau; Leopold Stein, Frankfort on the Main. Was
Rabbi at Elbing, Prussia; Bonn, Germany; Mobile, Ala.; Denver,
Colo.; Los Angeles, Cal.; Little Rock, Ark.; Spokane, Wash.;
Toledo, Ohio; and Youngstown, Ohio. Member of the DeutscheMorgenlandische Gesellschaft; professor of languages (1874-1875)
at the Samson Schule, Wolfenbiittel; professor in college at Los
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Angeles; and professor at University of Little Rock. Editor,
1876-1881, of Die jiidische Geraeinde und Familien-Zeitung
(later Die Reform), and, 1893-1896, of the Chicago Occident.
Frequent contributor to the American-Jewish press on subjects
connected with iJewish theology and history. Publications:
" The Future of Judaism; " " The Social Position of the Jews; "
" T h e Principles of Judaism; " " Progressive Rabbinism; " "The
Jewish Congregation of B o n n ; " "Abraham Geiger, a Biography; " "Self-Criticism of the Jews; " 'Criticism of Graetz's
History;" "Moses Mendelssohn's Labors in the Cause of
Judaism; " " Moses Mendelssohn's Labors in the Cause of Germany; " " Biblical and Post-Biblical History; " " A Word on the
Condition of Judaism in Germany; '' " The Talmud " (also treated
in a series of English lectures); " Reformed Judaism and its
Pioneers; " "Historians of Judaism; " "Moses Bloch; " "The
Literature of Jewish Catechisms; " "The Bible in the Light of
Modern Jewish Theology; " "Die Juden in Illinois; " " The Jews
in Medicine; " etc. Address: 260 Seminary Av., Chicago, 111.
Schreiber, Moses A. Minister of West End Hebrew Congregation, Knesseth Israel, Baltimore, Md. Born Iyar 18, 5601, at
Kovno, Russia. Son of Chaykel Schreiber. Educated privately
by Abraham Mapou and others. Teacher's diploma received
from Abraham Mapou; authorization as Hazan from Rev. Dr.
N. Adler, London, Eng. Occupied positions with the Rabbinical
Synagogue, Kovno; the congregation of Sunderland, Eng.; Congregations Darech Amuno, Shaaray Tefllla, and Adereth El,
New York City; and Congregation Shearith Israel, Baltimore,
Md. Founder and first Principal of the Talmud Torah, New
York City. At present, Principal of the Talmud Torah, Baltimore. Publications: Essays in the " Meassef " of the Shocharay
Sephath Eber, New York; " Judah's Offering, Centennial Ode,"
and other poems (Hebrew); and translations of English poems
into Hebrew. Address: 881 West Fayette, Baltimore, Md.
Schulman, Samuel. Rabbi of Temple Beth-El, New York City.
Born February 14, 1865, in Russia. Son of Tanhum Schulman.
Educated at public schools of New York City, and College of City
of New York. Hebrew and Talmudic studies under private teachers, and at the Hochschule fiir die Wissenschaft des Judenthums,
Berlin (certificate). Came to America in 1865. Sent to Berlin
by Emanu-El Theological Seminary Association. Held positions
in Helena, Mont., and Kansas City, Mo. Address: 1144 Park Av.,
New York City.
Schuman, Jacob. Cantor of Congregation Bnai Sholaum,
Brooklyn, N. Y. Born February 13, 1870, in Courland, Russia.
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Son of Abraham Schuman. Educated at Riga, Russia. Held a
position in Congregation Beth Jacob, Brooklyn, N. Y. Address:
574 Tenth, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Schwab, Isaac. Rabbi (since 1879) of Congregation Adath
Joseph, St. Joseph, Mo. Born November 1, 1840, at Kleinsteinach,
Bavaria. Educated at Mainbirnheim, Bavaria; Pressburg, Hungary; Rabbinical Seminary at Breslau; and Universities of Wiirzburg, Munich, and Leipzig. Ph. D., Jena, 1864; Rabbinical diplomas conferred by Rabbi A. S. B. Sofer, Pressburg; Dr. Aub,
Munich; and Dr. Wolf Landau, Dresden. Holder of Bavarian
Rabbinical certificate. Rabbi at Portland, Ore., 1866-1872; Evansville, Ind., 1873-1876; and Williamsburg, N. Y., 1876-1878. Publications: "Can Jews be Patriots?" "The Sabbath in History; "
" Contributions to the History and Reform of the Jewish Ritual "
(2 vols.); " The Christmas Motto and the Old Prophetic Passages
of a Coming Golden Era of Peace." Address: 6th and Jule, St.
Joseph, Mo.
Schwartz, Tobias H. Minister of Congregation Adath Yeshurun, Newport News, Va. Born in 1863, at Kovno, Russia. Son
of Jacob Schwartz. Educated at Kovno and Vilna. Rabbinical
diploma conferred by Rabbi Ifaac Elchanan Sp'ector, Kovno.
Held positions at Kibarten, Poland, and Pocahontas, Va. Address: 232 28th, Newport News, Va.
Seidel, Jacob M. Rabbi of Congregation Jeshuat Israel, Newport, R. I. Born August 12, 1874, at Warsaw, Poland. Son of
Rabbi Saul Seidel. Educated at Warsaw, Piontka, and Kalisz,
Poland. Rabbinical diploma conferred by Rabbis Alexander Ziskind, Israel Landow, and Zalzman. Held positions in Bellaire,
Ohio, for three years: in Wilkes Barre, Pa., for four years; and
in Woonsocket, R. I., for one year. Address: 29% Newport Av.,
Newport, R. I.
Shane, David. Rabbi of Congregation Sons of Israel, Camden,
N. J. Born April 7, 1846, Government of Kovno, Russia. Son of
Joseph Shane. Educated at Talmudical College of Volosin, Russia. Rabbinical diploma granted by Rabbi Joseph Scharia, Shavli,
Russia. Was Rabbi in Namunt, Russia. Address: 1118 Broadway, Camden, N. J.
Shapiro, Joseph. Rabbi (since 1892) of
reth Israel, Duluth. Minn. Born September
Son of Moses Shapiro. Educated in Odessa,
diploma conferred by the Rabbi of Odessa.
Superior, Duluth, Minn.
Congregation Tife1, 1860, in Russia.
Russia. Rabbinical
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Shoher, Hyman S. Rabbi of Congregation Mishkan Tefilah,
Boston, Mass. Born in 1847, at Kovno, Russia. Son of Jechiel
Shoher. Educated at Kovno and Minsk, Russia. Rabbinical
diploma granted by Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Spector, of Kovno.
Expelled from Memel, East Prussia, in 1885. Address: 1016 Tremont, Boston, Mass.
Shugam, William. Minister of Congregation Bickor Cholem,
S. Chicago, 111. Born November 10, 1865, at Plumgian, Russia, and
educated there. Son of Meyer Shugam. Diplomas granted by
Rabbis Z. Barith, Russia, and Jacob Joseph, New York City. Was
Rabbi in Congregation Zichron Jacob, Baltimore, Md. Address:
8828 Commercial, S. Chicago, 111.
Silberfeld, Julius. Rabbi of Congregation B'nai Abraham,
Newark, N. J. Born March 5, 1876, at Oswiecim, Austria. Son
of Cantor Joseph Silberfeld. Educated in Russia; at public
schools of New York City; College of the City of New York: and
privately under Dr. Adolph M. Radin. Compelled to leave Russia
on account of foreign birth. Held positions in Congregation
Tree of Life, Pittsburg, Pa., for one year; Temple Beth El, Jersey City, N. J., for three years; and Temple B'nai Jeshurun,
Newark, N. J. (as Associate Rabbi). Address: 210 Hunterdon,
Newark, N. J.
Silberman, Barnet. Rabbi (since 1889) of Congregation Tifereth Israel, New York City. Born in 1852, in Poland. Son of
Charles Silberman. Educated at Suvalki, Poland. Rabbinical
diploma conferred by Rabbi Lando, Volkovicz. Rabbi for eight
years in Volkovicz, and for eight years in Congregation Shareth Torah, New York City. Interested in civic work in the East
Side of the city. Address: 95 Henry, New York City.
Silberman, Hyman. Rabbi of Congregation Agudas Israel,
Waterbury, Conn. Born October 1, 1855, in Grodno, Russia. Son
of Alexander Silberman. Educated at Mariampol, Government
Suvalki, Russia. Rabbinical diploma granted by Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Spector, Kovno. Was Rabbi for four years in Cincinnati,
Ohio. Address: 72 Canal, Waterbury, Conn.
Silver, Benjamin. Cantor of the Chambersburg (Pa.) Hebrew
Congregation. Born in 1853, in the Government Kovno, Russia.
Son of Lewis Silver. Held positions in Russia. Address: 16
East Washington, Chambersburg, Pa.
Silverman, Joseph. Rabbi (since 1888) of Temple Emanu-El,
New York City. Born August 25, 1860, Cincinnati, Ohio. Son of
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M. H. Silverman. Educated at University of Cincinnati (B. A.),
and Hebrew Union College (Rabbi and D. D.). Rabbi of Temple
Emanu-El, Dallas, Texas, 1884-1885; and Congregation B'nai
Israel, Galveston, Texas, 1885-1888. President Central Conference American Rabbis, 1900-1903; Secretary Emanu-El Theological
Seminary Association; Member Council World's Fair Religious
Parliament: Member National Council of Actors' Church Alliance; Vice-President New York Board of Jewish Ministers. Publication: "The Essence of Judaism" (manual for confirmation).
Address: 9 West 90th, New York City.
Simon, Abram. Rabbi of Temple Israel, Omaha, Neb., and
Congregation B'nai Jeshurun, Lincoln, Neb. Born July 14, 1872.
B. L.., University of Cincinnati; Rabbi, Hebrew Union College.
Rabbi of Sacramento, Cal., for five years. Secretary, for five
years, of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
Publications: "The Sabbath School Problem;" "The Sabbath
School Curriculum." Address: 1117 South 30th Av., Omaha, Neb.
Singer, Herschel. Cantor and Preacher in Congregation Brith
Sholem, Buffalo. N. Y. Born April, 1847, at Poneviezh, Russia.
Son of Julius Singer. Educated in Russia. Officiated as Cantor
in Kreutzburg, Russia, and in Congregation Beth Jacob, Buffalo,
N. Y. Publication: " Zichoren Bashofer" (Talmudical and Biblical treatise). Address: 241 William.
Sivitz, Moses Simon. Rabbi of Congregations Shaare Torah,
Ohel Jacob, and Anshe Emunah, Pittsburg, Pa. Born November
15, 1855, in Russia. Son of Chatzkel Sivitz. Educated at Kovno,
Russia. Rabbinical diploma conferred by Rabbi Isaac Elchanan
Spector, Kovno. Occupied positions in Baltimore, Md.; Cleveland, Ohio; and Toledo, Ohio. Publications: " Choker Daas; "
"Beth Pago." Address: 1223 Franklin, Pittsburg, Pa.
Solomon, George. Rabbi (since 1903) of Congregation MicKva
Israel, Savannah, Ga. Born October 12, 1873, in New York City.
Son of Joseph Solomon and Sarah Solomon. Educated in public
schools of New York City; Hebrew Orphan Asylum, New York
City; high, school, Cincinnati, Ohio; University of Cincinnati
(B. A.); and Hebrew Union College (Rabbi). Was Assistant
Superintendent Hebrew Orphan Asylum, New York City. Rabbi of
Congregation Anshe Chesed, Vicksburg, Miss., 1895-1903. Publication: "Essays on the Origin of Christianity" (in conjunction
with Rabbi Joseph Bogen). Address: 22 Jones, W., Savannah,
Ga.
Solomon, Xalman. Cantor of Congregation Ahavath Scholom
Beth Aron, Brooklyn, N. Y. Born May '2, 1859, in Russia. Sou
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of Abraham I. Solomon. Educated in Germany. Rabbinical
diploma conferred by Dr. Cohen, Germany. Address: 61 Graham
Av., Brooklyn, N. Y.
Sonneschein, Solomon H. Rabbi of Temple Bnei Yeshurun,
Des Moines, Iowa. Born June 24, 1839, at St. Martin Turoz, Hungary. Son of Moses Sonneschein and Charlotte Jassniger. Educated at Teschen, Austria, Neusatz, Boskowitz, Moravia, and Hamburg. Ph. D., Jena, 1864. Rabbinical diploma received from the
Chief Rabbi of Boskowitz, Moravia, 1863. Was Rabbi in Varasdin, Prague, New York, and St. Louis. Vice-president, 1886-1888,
of National Conference of Charities and Corrections. Connected
with the German and English Jewish press for forty years as
editor and contributor. Address: 810 Pleasant, Des Moines, Iowa.
Sparger, William. Cantor of Temple Emanu-El, New York
City. Born April 3, 1860, at Tallya, Hungary. Son of Koloman
Sparger. Educated at Rabbinical Seminary of Budapest and
Royal Conservatory of Music, Vienna. Held positions at Dortmund and Worms, Germany, and in Brooklyn, N. Y. Publications: Anthems: " O Lord, what is Man; " "Remember, Lord; "
"Behold and See; " and "Out of the Depths; " (with Spicker)
"Emanu-El" (Sabbath eve and morning service, 2 vols.); (with
Alois Kaiser) "Songs of Zion." Address: 73 East 90th, New
York City.
Spiegel, Adolph. Rabbi of Congregation Shaari Zedek, New
York City. Born February 10, 1869, at Buczacz, Galicia. Son of
Mathias Spiegel. Educated in Talmudical Colleges at Buczacz,
Czernowitz, Bukowina; Stanislau and Tarnopol, Galicia. Rabbinical diploma conferred by Rabbi Samuel Stark, Buczacz. Was
Rabbi of Congregation Gemilath Chesed, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Ahavath Scholom Beth Aron, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Adereth El, New York
City; and First Jewish Congregation of Ponce, Porto Rico. President of Austrian Hebrew Charities Association. Address: 166
Henry, New York City.
Spitz, Moritz. Rabbi (since 1878) of Congregation B'nai El,
St. Louis, Mo. Born October 4, 1848, at Csaba, Hungary. Son
of Rabbi Jacob Spitz. Educated at Talmudical College of
Csaba; by Rabbi Hirsch at Old Buda; at the Gymnasium in
Buda; University of Prague, and under Heller, Wessely, Kaempf,
and Judah Teveles, in Prague. Rabbinical diploma granted by
Rabbi Judah Teveles. Was Rabbi less than one year of Congregation B'nai Sholom, Chicago, 111., and seven years of Congregation Emanu-El, Milwaukee, Wis. Was editor of the Jewish
Tribune, and at present editor of the Jewish Voice. Contributor
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to the American Israelite and Die Deborah under the nom de
plume " Ben Abi." Connected with the Jewish press in Europe
and America for thirty-live years. Address: 1727 Missouri Av.,
St. Louis, Mo.
Stark, E. J. Cantor (since 1893) of Congregation Emanu-El,
San Francisco, Cal. Born March 29, 1863, at Hohenems, Austria.
Son of Josef Stark, cantor at Hohenems and one of the earliest
of Sulzer's pupils. Educated at Vienna and Leipzig, and in Hebrew and Hazanut by his father. Was Cantor of Congregation
Beth Elohim, Brooklyn, N. Y. Publications: Musical services for
the Hebrew Union Prayer Book. Composer of anthems, cantatas,
and memorial hymns. Address: San Francisco, Cal.
Stein, Morris. Cantor (since 1893) of Congregation Keneseth
Israel, Portchester, N. Y. Born in Vilna, Russia. Son of Louis
Stein. Educated at Volosin, Russia. Diplomas conferred by
Rabbi Solomon Kayen, Vilna, and Rabbi Jacob Joseph, New York
City. Address: 82 Lake, Portchester, N. Y.
Stern, Jacob Ludwig. Rabbi (since 1891) of Be'er Chayim
Congregation, Cumberland, Md. Born November 28, 1856, at Creglingen, Wiirtemberg. Son of Ludwig Stern. Educated at Israelitische Gemeindeschule, Lateinschule, Gymnasium, and University (Ph.D.), at Wiirzburg, Bavaria, and the Polytechnicum,
Darmstadt. Rabbinical diploma granted by Rabbi Seligman Baer
Bamberger, Wiirzburg. Taught in Jewish schools in Brighton,
Eng., New York, and St. Louis. Was Rabbi in Salt Lake City,
Utah, 1891. Publications: Articles on the Single Tax., etc., in
various papers. Address: Cumberland, Md.
Stern, Louis. Rabbi (since 1872) of the Washington (D. C.)
Hebrew Congregation. Born February 10, 1847, at Simmern, Germany. Son of David Stern. Educated at the Seminary at Miinster, Westphalia. Was Rabbi in Luegde, Westphalia. Address:
1325 Tenth, Washington, D. C.
Stollnitz, Henry Sande. Rabbi of Congregation Adath Emuno,
Hoboken, N. J. Born in Ostrovo, Government Lomzha, Russia,
in 1865. Son of Nathan Stollnitz. Held positions (as Cantor)
at Ulm, Wiirtemberg; Norfolk Street Congregation, New York
City; Eden Street Congregation, Baltimore, Md.; Ohabei Shalom
Congregation, San Francisco, Cal.; and Sharey Tefillo, Orange,
N. J. Address: 626 Bloomfleld, Hoboken, N. J.
Stolz, Joseph. Rabbi (since 1896) of Isaiah Temple, Chicago,
111. Born November 3, 1861, in Syracuse, N. Y. Son of David
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Stolz. Educated at public schools of Syracuse; University of
Cincinnati (B. L.); Hebrew Union College (Rabbi and D. Tf.).
Rabbi at Little Rock, Ark., 1884-1887; and of Zion Congregation,
Chicago, 1887-1896. Member of Harper Educational Commission,
and since 1899 Member Chicago Board of Education. Married
Blanche Rauh, Cincinnati, June 24, 1900. Publication: "Funeral
Agenda." Address: 157 42d Place, Chicago, 111.
Tintner, Moritz. Rabbi of Congregation Beth Israel Emanuel.
Born in Austerlitz, Moravia, Austria. Son of Lobel Tintner. Educated at Pressburg, Breslau, Berlin, and Munich (Ph. D.). Rabbinical diplomas conferred by Rabbi W. Sofer, Pressburg; Rabbi
A. Platshek, Boskowitz, Moravia; Dr. Aub, Munich; and Rabbis
of Breslau and Berlin. Was Rabbi at Freistadt, Prussia; Kuttenplan, Bohemia; St. PSlten, Austria; of Congregation Shaare
Rachamim, New York City; of Congregation Beth Israel, Brooklyn, N. Y.; and in Cleveland, Ohio. Publications: " Abhandlung
iiber Chartesius und Spinoza; " " Responsa of the Talmud Babli; "
" Nachle Moshe; " "Matte Moshe; " " Sichron Mosbe; " and
"Kerem Moshe." Address: 18 West 118th, New York City.
Traugott, Abraham. Rabbi of Congregation B'rith Sholom,
Springfield, 111. Born April 6, 1861, at London, Eng., and educated there. Son of Jacob Traugott. Held positions in Albany,
Ga., and Fort Smith, Ark. Synagogue at Fort Smith erected during his incumbency (1892). Member of the Lincoln Library
Board. Member (1902) of Sangamon County Board of Supervisors. Address: 850 North 6th, Springfield, 111.
Tremblatt, I. Minister of Congregation Sons of Israel, West
Superior, Wis. Born and educated in Kovno, Russia. Rabbinical
diploma conferred by Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Spector, Kovno. Held
positions in Archangel and other places in Russia, and in the
Argentine Jewish Colony. Address: West Superior, Wis.
Vidaver, Falk. Rabbi and Preacher of Congregation Beth
Israel Bikur Cholim, New York City. Born 1846, in Warsaw,
Poland. Son of Nathan Vidaver. Educated at Warsaw and University of Berlin (Ph. D.). Rabbinical diploma conferred by the
Rabbinate of Warsaw under Meisels. Held positions in Boston,
Mass.; Evansville, Ind.; San Francisco, Cal.; and Louisville, Ky.
Publications: Notes on the Ethics of the Fathers and on the
Psalms; Articles in the American Israelite, Reform Advocate,
Hamagid, Hazefirah, Hoibri, Hashachar, Hakol, and the Hebrew
press of New York. Address: 181 East 71st, New York City.
Volmer, Leon. Rabbi of Hebrew Educational Society Bene
Jeshurun, Charleston, W. Va. Born June 28, 1879, at Little Rock,
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Ark. Son of Louis Volmer and Henrietta Bott. Educated at
public schools of Little Rock; high school, Cincinnati, Ohio; University of Cincinnati (B. A.); and Hebrew Union College (B. H.
L. and Rabbi). Address: Charleston, W. Va.
Voorsanger, Jacob. Rabbi (since 1886) of Temple Emanu-El,
San Francisco, Cal. Born November 13, 1852, at Amsterdam,
Holland. Son of Wolf Voorsanger and Alicia Pekel. Educated
at Jewish Theological Seminary, Amsterdam. B. D. and D. D.,
Hebrew Union College. Professor of Semitic Languages and Literature, University of California (since the establishment of the
chair, 1894). One of the chaplains and a special lecturer at
Leland Stanford Jr., University; one of the founders and first
Vice-President California Red Cross Society; first President
Manila Library Association. Was Rabbi at Philadelphia, 18731876; Washington, D. C, 1876-1877; Providence, R. I., 1877-1878;
and Houston, Tex., 1878-1886. Was editor of the Jewish South,
1881-1883; Sabbath Visitor, Cincinnati, 1883-1886; was the
founder (1895) and is now the editor of Emanu-El. Publications: "Moses Mendelssohn, Life and Works; " and "Chronicles
of Emanu-El." Address: 1249 Franklin, San Francisco, Cal.
Warsaw, Isidor. Rabbi of Congregation Beth Tefilloh, Brunswick, Ga. Born December 25, 1874, at Eydkuhnen, Prussia. Son
of Moses Warsaw. Educated at Kovno High School; University
of Berlin; University of Cincinnati (B. A.); and Hebrew Union
College (Rabbi). Address: Brunswick, Ga.
Wechsler, Judah. Born March 24, 1833, in Bavaria. Son of
Hirsh Wechsler. Educated at Wiirzburg. Rabbinical diploma
granted by S. Bamberger. Held positions in Indianapolis, Ind.;
New Haven, Conn.; Columbus; St. Paul, Minn.; and Meridian,
Miss. Founder of Russian Jewish Colony at Painted Woods,
North Dakota. Address: 828 South East, Indianapolis, Ind.
Wechsler, Morris. Rabbi (since 1895) of Congregation Brith
Sholem, New York City. Born in 1849, at Nagy Mihaly, Hungary. Son of Israel Wechsler. Educated at Pressburg, Erlau,
and Hethars, in Hungary. Rabbinical diplomas conferred by
Rabbi Moses Margarethen, Rabbi F. Tannenbaum, and Rabbi Solomon Wechsler. Was Rabbi of Congregation Ohev Zedek, Yonkers,
N. Y.; and Congregation Kol Israel Achim, New Brunswick, N. J.
Editor of the New York Jewish Times. Publications: " Wajdaber
Moshe; " " Birkas Moshe; " " Tiferes Moshe."
Weinstein, Harris. Minister (since 1881) of Congregation
Shearith Israel, Goshen, Ind. Born January 18, 1859, at Kal-
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warya, Government Suvalki, Russia. Son of Aaron L. Weinstein.
Rabbinical diplomas received from the Rabbis of Kalwarya and
Vishtinetz. Came to America in 1881. Address: 505 South 3rd,
Goshen, Ind.
Weiss, Harry. Rabbi (since 1903) of Congregation B'nai
Israel, Butte, Mont. Born October 19, 1875. Son of Moses Weiss.
Educated at public schools of Chicago, 111.; high school, Cincinnati, Ohio; University of Cincinnati (B. A.); and Hebrew Union
College (B. H. L. and Rabbi). Rabbi at Waco, Texas, 1897-1899;
and at Pueblo, Colo., 1899-1903. Organized the congregation in
Pueblo; synagogue built, free from debt, during his incumbency;
and synagogue in Butte begun since his arrival. Contributor of
verses to Jewish papers. Address: 915 West Quartz, Butte, Mont.
Weiss, Louis. Rabbi of Congregation Beth Israel, Palestine,
Texas. Born February 7, 1848, at Kotay, Hungary. Son of
Martin Weiss. Educated in Hungary. Rabbinical diploma conferred by Rabbi Isaac Goldstein, Grosswardein, Hungary. Held
positions in Columbus, Ga.; Columbus, Miss.; Trenton, N. J.; and
Chattanooga, Tenn. Publications: " Ta'lmudic and Other Legends; " "More L i g h t ; " "Some Burning Questions." Address:
Palestine, Texas.
Willner, Wolff. Rabbi (since 1895) of Congregation Beth Israel, Meridian, Miss. Born July 28, 1863, at Strassburg, West
Prussia. Son of Rabbi Samuel H. Willner and Sarah Hertzfeld.
Educated in Rabbinica by father, in secular studies at Yale University (B. A., 1885; M. A., 1887); and Johns Hopkins University.
Rabbinical diploma conferred by father. Rabbi of Congregation
Oheb Sholom, Newark, N. J., 1887-1890; Congregation Beth Israel, Houston, Tex., 1890-1892; Eden Street Synagogue, Baltimore, Md., 1892-1894. Came to America in 1874. Address: 2600
Eleventh, Meridian, Miss.
Wintner, Leopold. Rabbi (since 1878) of Temple Beth Elohim, Brooklyn, N. Y. Born in 1836, in Koztvelyes, Zemplin
Comitat, Hungary. Son of Rabbi Pincbas Wintner, Talmudist,
and Hannah Gottlieb. Educated at Talmudical Colleges of Miskolcz, Old Buda, and Pressburg, Hungary; and University of
Vienna. M. A. and Ph. D., University of Tiibingen. Rabbinical
diploma conferred by Rabbi Dr. Abr. Schmiedl, Vienna. Was
Rabbi of Congregation Beth Israel, Jackson, Miss.; Mount Zion,
St. Paul, Minn.; and Temple Beth El, Detroit, Mich. Married
Betty Stagl (deceased), Vienna. Made a tour of Palestine and
Egypt in 1902. Publication: " The Ancient Legislation relating
to Economics and Poverty from Biblical and Talmudical Sources."
Address: 473 Bedford Av., Brooklyn, N. Y.
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Wise, Stephen Samuel. Rabbi (since 1900) of Temple Beth
Israel, Portland, Ore. Born March 17, 1872, at Budapest, Hungary. Son of Rabbi Dr. Aaron Wise and Sabine von Fischer.
Educated at College of the City of New York; and Columbia University (B. A., 1892; Ph. D., 1900); and studied under Rabbis
Aaron Wise, Alexander Kohut, Gustav Gottheil, Henry Gersoni,
and Professors M. L. Margolis and Joshua A. Joffe. Rabbi of
Congregation B'nai Jeshurun, New York City, 1893-1900; Secretary for English of the Second Zionist Congress, 1898; Honorary
Secretary Federation of American Zionists. Publication: " T h e
Improvement of the Moral Qualities by Solomon ibn Gabirol."
Address: 233 North 24th, Portland, Ore.
Wittenberg, David H. Rabbi of Congregation Ahavath
Chesed, Jacksonville, Fla. Born June 18, 1875, in Poland. Son of
Nathaniel Wittenberg. Educated at public schools of New York
City; College of the City of New York; and Jewish Theological
Seminary of America (Rabbi). Special course in Columbia School
of Philosophy. Was Rabbi of Congregation Beth El, Buffalo,
N. Y., and Congregation Holy Blossom, Toronto, Can. Address:
413 W. Ashley, Jacksonville, Fla.
WohTberg, Berenhard. Rabbi of Congregation Rodef Sholom,
Waco, Tex. Born December 25, 1866, at Breslau, Germany. Son
of Joseph Wohlberg. Educated at Breslau, and at the University of Berlin (Ph. B.). Rabbinical diploma conferred by Rabbi
Dr. I. Hildesheimer. Held positions in Hamilton, Ont, and Woodville, Miss. Publication: "Jewish Life in Central Europe." Address: Waco, Texas.
Wolenske, Harriss. Minister of First Hebrew Orthodox Congregation, Bradford, Pa. Born in 1858, at Nieshodt, Poland. Son
of Woolf Wolenske. Educated at Liverpool, England. Diplomas
granted by Dr. N. Adler, London, Eng., and Rabbi Jacob Joseph,
New York City. Held positions in Liverpool, Eng.; Youngstown,
Ohio; St. John, New Brunswick, Can. Address: 8 Amm, Bradford, Pa.
"Wolkowich, Erwin. Cantor (since 1903) of Temple Ohabei
Shalom, Boston, Mass. Born January 19, 1863, at Suvalki, Poland.
Son of Abraham Wolkowich. Educated at Vienna. Was Cantor
of Congregation B'nai Jeshurun, Staten Island, N. Y. Address:
131 Harold, Roxbury, Boston, Mass.
Wolsey, Louis. Rabbi of Congregation B'nai Israel, Little
Rock, Ark. Born January 8, 1877, at Midland, Mich. Son of
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William Wolsey. Educated at public schools of Clare, Mich., and
Chicago, 111.; high school, Cincinnati, Ohio; University of Cincinnati (B. A.); and Hebrew Union College (B. H. L., and Rabbi,
1899). Address: 1419 Louisiana, Little Rock, Ark.
Yasgour, Louis. Rabbi of Congregation Brethren of Israel,
Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Born March 25, 1872, in Russia. Son of
Abraham Yasgour. Educated in the preparatory school of F.
Feilchenfeld, Grand Rabbi of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Rabbinical
diploma conferred by the Maybaum Seminary. Held positions in
Evansville, Ind., and Houston, Texas. Address: 214 Church,
Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
Yudelson, Albert B. Rabbi of South Side Hebrew Congregation, Chicago, 111. Born August 2, 1869, at Prosehle, Poland. Son
of Judah L. Yudelson. Educated at Talmudical Colleges of
Suvalki and Sakola, Russia, and at the University of the City of
New York and Northwestern University. Rabbinical diplomas
granted by Rabbis Z. Director, Sakola; H. Brinn, Chorzellen; Dr.
Oppenheim, Thorn, Prussia. Was principal of Hebrew Free
School, Paterson, N. J., and superintendent of Hebrew Educational
Society, Brooklyn, N. Y. Came to America in 1890. Address:
187 25th Street, Chicago, 111.
Zarchy, Asher I . Rabbi (since 1903) of the United Orthodox
Hebrew Congregations of Louisville, Ky. (Bnai Jacob, Anshei
Sforod, and Beth Hamidrash Hagodel). Born in 1862, at Kovno,
Russia. Son of Samuel H. Zarchy. Educated at Kovno and
Volosin, Russia. Rabbinical diploma granted by Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Spector, Kovno, and Rabbi Hirsch Leb Berlin, Volosin.
Was Rabbi at Brooklyn, N. Y. (1892), and Des Moines, Iowa (18931903). Came to America in 1891. Address: 222 East Chestnut,
Louisville, Ky.
Zelesnick, Judel Michael. Rabbi of Congregation Ohel Jacob,
Chicago, 111. Born February, 1859, in the Government Kovno,
Russia. Son of Charles Zelesnick. Educated at Kovno. Rabbinical diplomas granted by Rabbis Jacob Kahano, Vilna, and
Isaac Elchanan Spector, Kovno. Address: 91 West 13th, Chicago, 111.
Zeligsohn, A. H. Minister of Congregation Bnei Israel, Olean,
N. Y. Born May 15, 1870, at Krakinove, Government Kovno, Russia. Son of Solomon Selig Zeligsohn. Educated at Kovno. Rabbinical diploma conferred by Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Spector,
Kovno. Was Minister in Corry, Pa. Address: Olean, N. Y.
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Zepin, George. Rabbi of Congregation B'nai Israel, Kalamazoo,
Mich. Born June 8, 1878, at Cincinnati, Ohio. Son of Otto Zepin.
Educated at public schools, Cincinnati, Ohio; University of Cincinnati (B. A).; and Hebrew Union College (B. H. L. and Rabbi).
Appointed Director of Circuit Work by the Union of American Hebrew Congregations. Address: 449 West Lovell, Kalamazoo, Mich.
Zielonka, Martin. Rabbi (since 1900) of Mount Sinai Congregation, El Paso, Texas,, Born February 15, 1877, at Berlin, Germany. Son of David Zielonka and Bertha Sanger. Educated at
public schools of Cincinnati, Ohio; University of Cincinnati (B.A.,
1899); Hebrew Union College (B. H. L., 1895; Rabbi, 1899); and
Baylor University, Waco, Texas. Came to America in 1882.
Rabbi at Waco, Texas, 1899-1900. Publication: "The Status and
Condition of the Jew in Mexico." Address: P. O. Box 756, El
Paso, Texas.
Zinsler, Leopold. Rabbi of Congregation Shaari Zedek of
Harlem, New York City. Born May 23, 1856, at Cracow, Austria.
Son of Jacob Joseph Zinsler. Educated at Ballasa Gyarmoth,
Pressburg, Eisenstadt, and Kaschau, in Hungary, and Cassel, Germany. Rabbinical diploma conferred by Rabbi Abraham S. B.
Sofer, Pressburg, 1872. Address: 16 West 117th, New York City.