biography
pronunciation:
[moriys]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1823–97)
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| biography:
| Rabbi, born in Leghorn (now Livorno), Italy. He went to the USA in 1851, and became rabbi of the Mikveh Israel Congregation of Philadelphia, where he served until his death. An abolitionist, he later concerned himself with raising funds for the Russian Jews who settled in America. In opposition to the rising tide of Reform Judiasm, he helped found the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York (1886), where he taught until his death. |
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