Bernhard Felsenthal

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Bernhard Felsenthal (born January 2, 1822 in Münchweiler an der Alsenz , † January 12, 1908 in Chicago ) was an American rabbi of German origin.

He was one of the early Zionists . In 1854 he emigrated to the United States, first to Indiana , then to Chicago. In 1861 he became the first rabbi of the Chicago Sinai Congregation . Felsenthal taught that Judaism was both a religion and a national culture. He was co-founder and secretary of the Jewish Reform Association in Chicago , founder of the Jewish Publications Society of America and the American Jewish Historical Society . At the 4th Zionist Congress in 1900 he was a member of the Action Committee for North America.

Among other things, he wrote a criticism of the Christian missionary system, especially the mission to the Jews (1869).

literature

  • E. Felsenthal (ed.): Bernhard Felsenthal , Teacher in Israel, Oxford University Press, Oxford 1924.
  • Tobias Brinkmann, Sundays at Sinai: A Jewish Congregation in Chicago, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2012, ISBN 9780226074542 .
  • K. Olitzky, L. Sussman, MH Stern (eds.): Reform Judaism in America . A Biographical Dictionary and Sourcebook, Greenwood, Westport, Conn. 1993, ISBN 0313246289 .
  • Joseph Stolz: Obituary (Necrology), in: Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society (AJHSP) 17 (1909), 218-22.
  • Sefton D. Temkin:  FELSENTHAL, BERNHARD. In: Encyclopaedia Judaica . 2nd Edition. Volume 6, Detroit / New York a. a. 2007, ISBN 978-0-02-865934-3 , p. 751 (English). ( here ( memento of February 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) quoted in full)
  • Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography , Vol. 2 - Chernivtsi: Orient [et al.], 1927
  • Encyclopaedia Judaica: Judaism in Past and Present , Vol. 6 - Berlin: Eschkol, 1930

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Leonard C. Schlup, James G. Ryan: Historical dictionary of the Gilded Age , ME Sharpe, 2003, ISBN 978-0-76560331-9 , p. 158 (available at Google Books)
personal data
SURNAME Felsenthal, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American rabbi of German origin
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH Münchweiler on the Alsenz
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 1908
Place of death Chicago