Isaac Mayer Wise

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Isaac Mayer Wise 1876

Isaac Mayer Wise (born March 29, 1819 in Steingrub , Bohemia; died March 26, 1900 in Cincinnati , Ohio ; actually Isaac Mayer Weis ) was an American rabbi of Bohemian origin of great religious history .

Life

Isaac Mayer Weis attended various Jewish schools in Bohemia , studied in Prague , Pressburg and Vienna . After three years as a religious instructor (employee with the duties of a rabbi) in Radnitz , he emigrated with his family to the USA in 1846 and worked as a rabbi in the Jewish community of Albany . He introduced fundamental reforms in the spirit of Reform Judaism : he began to hold services in the national language of English, introduced mixed choirs and was one of the first women to count towards a minyan . In 1847 he became a member of a Beth Din in New York City , which was run by his longtime friend Max Lilienthal . In 1850 the Beth Din released him again. In 1857 he wrote a common prayer book for schools under the title Minhag America , with which he tried to gather American Jews around a single text corpus of prayers. There were also protests against this attempt. Isaac Meyer Wise served as President of the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati for the last eleven years of his life . He was also held in high regard outside the Jewish community. He received honors, among others, in Charleston , South Carolina . Isaac Meyer Wise was because of his defense of slavery of African Americans controversial. In his essay On the Provisional Portion of the Mosaic Code, with Special Reference to Polygamy and Slavery u. a. that man in a wild state is not free and the abstract idea of ​​freedom is more suitable for the work of the Mosaic system than for the wild. Isaac Meyer Wise was married twice. His first wife, Therese Bloch, was the sister of Edward H. Bloch , the founder of Bloch Publishing Company , the oldest Jewish publishing house in the United States. The couple had ten children.

literature

  • Joseph H. Gumbiner: Isaac Mayer Wise. Pioneer of American Judaism . Union of American Hebrew Congregations, New York 1959.
  • Sefton D. Temkin: Creating American Reform Judaism. The life and times of Isaac Mayer Wise . Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, London 1998, ISBN 1-874774-45-5 .
  • Max Benjamin May: Isaac Mayer Wise - The Founder of American Judaism / a Biography - Primary Source Edition , BiblioLife, 2013, ISBN 9781289549381

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dana Evan Kaplan: The New Reform Judaism - Challenges and Reflections , The Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia, 2013, ISBN 978-0-8276-0934-1 , p. 324
  2. ^ Dana Evan Kaplan: The New Reform Judaism - Challenges and Reflections , The Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia, 2013, ISBN 978-0-8276-0934-1 , p. 324
  3. ^ R. Gil Student: Minhag America and American Nationalism at www.torahmusings.com
  4. ^ Bertram W. Korn: Isaac Mayer Wise on the Civil War

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personal data
SURNAME Wise, Isaac Mayer
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weis, Isaac Mayer (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American rabbi of Bohemian origin
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH Steingrub , Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 1900
Place of death Cincinnati , Ohio