- Title Pages
- The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
- Epigraph
- Prefatory Note
- List of Plates
- Abbreviations
- Note on Transliteration
-
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 - Bibliographical Note
- Glossary
- Index
- Plates
Conference—Union—;Synod
Conference—Union—;Synod
- Chapter:
- (p.131) 5. Conference—Union—;Synod
- Source:
- Creating American Reform Judaism
- Author(s):
Sefton D. Temkin
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
This chapter turns to Wise’s attempts to set up a synod. Early in 1855, Wise had begun to renew his agitation for a conference. Wise wanted a general ‘get-together’ without regard to theology. He enumerates some of the questions which lay before American Jewry: Zion College, which had been started in Cincinnati; the orphan asylum which had been started in New Orleans; whether or not to have Jewish parochial schools; ‘our standing complaint about the serious want of textbooks for Hebrew schools’. ‘The grand problem-to be solved at present is this’, said Wise, ‘how to unite all these endeavours into one focus’. Here, indeed, the chapter reveals a mind working on a grand design for American Jewry. It is a conference on practical issues, not on ideologies, that Wise is advocating. The note is definitely union, not reform.
Keywords: synod, conference, union, American Jewry, Zion College, orphan asylum, Jewish parochial schools, Hebrew schools
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- Title Pages
- The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
- Epigraph
- Prefatory Note
- List of Plates
- Abbreviations
- Note on Transliteration
-
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 - Bibliographical Note
- Glossary
- Index
- Plates