biography
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Hirsch, Emil Gustav
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| male
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| lived:
| (1851–1923)
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| biography:
| Rabbi, born in Luxembourg. He went to the USA in 1866, and after graduating from the University of Pennsylvania (1872), he studied in Germany, then served as rabbi in several US cities. In 1880 he was named rabbi of the Sinai Congregation in Chicago (1880–1923), and in 1892 he became professor of rabbinic literature and Jewish philosophy at the University of Chicago. Active on behalf of the Reform movement and of social justice, he advocated radical reforms in Jewish practice, including the observance of the Sabbath on Sunday. |
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