Creating American Reform Judaism : The Life and Times of Isaac Mayer Wise.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (340 pages)
- The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization Series .
- The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization Series .
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Prefatory Note -- Contents -- List of Plates -- Abbreviations -- Note on Transliteration -- 1. Bohemia (1819-1849) -- 1. Metternich's Europe -- 2. Jewish Life in an Age of Reaction -- 3. Early Years -- 4. Departure -- 2. New Beginning (1846-1854) -- 1. Young America -- 2. Jewish Life -- 3. Rabbi in Albany -- 4. Organizing American Jewry -- 5. Early Writings -- 6. Sortie in Charleston: Backlash in Albany -- 7. Anshe Emeth -- 8. Formulating His Beliefs -- 9. The Asmonean -- 10. A Bible History -- 11. Heading West -- 3. Cincinnati (1854-1900) -- 1. Queen City of the West -- 2. Congregation B'nai Jeshurun -- 3. The Israelite -- 4. Zion College -- 5. Conference―Union―Synod -- 6. David Einhorn -- 7. Cleveland Platform: Quick Victory-Lengthy War -- 8. Minhag America -- 9. The Essence of Judaism -- 10. Fighting for Jewish Rights -- 11. Political Diversions -- 12. The Civil War -- 13. At North College Hill -- 14. First Fruits in Cincinnati -- 15. Wider Ambitions -- 16. Among the Gentiles (1867-1878) -- 17. Years of Sorrow and Strife (1869-1874) -- 18. Flirting with the Orthodox -- 19. Reformers in Conflict: East versus West (1869) -- 20. Establishing the Union (1871-1873) -- 21. Call to New York (1873) -- 22. 'We must have "Union in Israel' -- 23. President of Hebrew Union College -- Appendix: The Principal Changes Introduced in Minhag America -- 4. Fulfilment: Years of Harvest -- 1. Duties Old and New -- 2. Remarriage (1876) -- 3. Sustaining the College (1875-1883) -- 4. Reform Moves On: The Pittsburgh Platform -- 5. A New American Jewish World -- 6. Seventieth Birthday: Central Conference of American Rabbis -- 7. Sunset -- 8. The Legacy -- Bibliographical Note -- Glossary -- Index.
American Reform Judaism's major institutions--Hebrew Union College, the Central Conference of American Rabbis, and the Reform prayer-book Minhag America--were all due to the singular efforts of Isaac Mayer Wise (1819-1900). Professor Temkin's biography captures the vigour of Wise's personality and the politics and concerns of Jewish life and leadership in America at that time. It is a lively portrait of a rabbi who was a pivotal figure in the naturalization of Jews and Judaism in the New World.