- 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
Fighting for Jewish Rights
Fighting for Jewish Rights
- Chapter:
- (p.162) 10. Fighting for Jewish Rights
- Source:
- Creating American Reform Judaism
- Author(s):
Sefton D. Temkin
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
This chapter considers Isaac Mayer Wise’s polemics within the Jewish community and his ‘unbridled belligerency’ against its enemies outside. Despite his many interests and exertions, his capacity for action was never exhausted. Missionaries, denigrators of Judaism, those who swerved by however so little from the American principle of separation of Church and State, as well as obvious antisemites, drew instant retaliation from his pen. The occasions on which Wise felt called upon to act thus are too numerous, and the torrent of words too copious, to permit a representative selection of these writings. The instances cited in this chapter came early in his career in Cincinnati, when Wise had not been three years in the city and the Israelite was scarcely established.
Keywords: Jewish rights, missionaries, antisemites, Israelite, Cincinatti, activism
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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