biography
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| lived:
| (1819–1900)
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| biography:
| Rabbi, born in Steingrub, Bohemia (now Czech Republic). He studied in Vienna and settled in the USA in 1846. Rabbi of Orthodox congregations in Albany, NY, and Cincinnati, he changed them into Reform synagogues, and soon became the pre-eminent leader of Reform Judaism in the USA. He organized the Union of American Hebrew Congregations (1873), and founded the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati (1875), serving as its president until his death. In 1889 he established the Central Conference of American Rabbis. He was founder and editor of the American Israelite and Deborah. A prolific writer, he published many historical and religious works, including History of the Israelitish Nation (1854), as well as novels, plays, and a memoir, Reminiscences (1901). |
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