biography
| name: |
Felsenthal, Bernhard
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pronunciation:
[velsentahl]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1822–1908)
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| biography:
| Rabbi, born in Münchweiler, Germany. He went to the USA in 1854, and served the Sinai and Zion Congregations in Chicago (1861–87). A moderate leader of Reform Judaism in the Midwest, he was an early Zionist and founder of the Jewish Publication Society of America and the American Jewish Historical Society. |
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