The Jewish Herald-Voice (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 5, 1967 Page: 14 of 115
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pioneering efforts to secure Amer-
ican Judaism on firm foundations,
Isaac Leeser surely ranks as the
outstanding American Jew of the
1800’s.
Rabbi Leon I. Feuer’s “Abba
Hillel Silver: A Personal Memoir”
deals with a man who might well
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congregational and rabbinical un-
ion, a rabbinical seminary, and an
organization for Jewish self-de-
fense or anti-defamation. His was
the first volume of sermons de-
livered and published by an Amer-
ican Jewish clergyman. Leeser
prepared the first complete Amer-
ican translations of the Sephardic
and Ashkenazic prayerbooks, the
first Hebrew primer for Jewish
children, the first Hebrew-English
Torah edited and translated by
an American Jew, and the first
English translation of the entire
Hebrew Bible by an American
Jew. He was also the first to
establish a Jewish communal re-
ligious school, an American Jew-
ish publication society, and an
American Jewish theological sem-
inary.
Leeser’s monthly magazine and
news journal, The Occident, was
the first successful American Jew-
ish periodical. In short, “practical-
ly every form of Jewish activity
which supports Jewish life today,”
writes Korn, “was either estab-
lished or envisaged by this one
man. Almost every kind of pub-
lication which is essential to Jew-
ish survival was written, trans-
lated or fostered by him.” That
is why Korn can say that Leeser
“contributed more to the creation
of a viable American Judaism
than any other Jewish religious
leader has ever given.” For his
Two of American Jewry’s
greatest builders—Isaac Leeser, of
Philadelphia, who died in 1868,
and Abba Hillel Silver, of Cleve-
land, who died in 1963 — are
featured in the forthcoming No-
vember, 1967, issue of American
Jewish Archives, pulblished on
the Cincinnati campus of the He-
brew Union College-Jewish Insti-
tute of Religion. It is no exag-
geration to say that the course
of American Jewish history might
very well have run in different
channels, had each not risen up
to give needed leadership—spiritu-
al, intellectual, and even political
leadership—to the Jewish com-
munity of his own day.
Dr. Bertram W. Korn’s “Isaac
Leeser: Centennial Reflections” is
devoted to an assessment of the
mid-nineteenth-century leader who
was not and never claimed to be
an ordained rabbi, but for twen-
ty years served Philadelphia’s
Mikve Israel Congregation as a
hazzan. Says Dr. Korn, himself a
distinguished rabbi and historian:
“It is difficult to believe that one
man could have been so imagina-
tive and productive.” The Ger-
man-born Leeser, who came to
America as a teenager in the
1820’s, was a man of firsts. He
was the first to recognize Ameri-
can Jewry’s need for institutions
like Jewish hospitals, orphanages,
welfare federations, a nation-wide
be singled out as the outstanding
American Jew of the 1900’s. Like
Leeser, Silver, too, was an immi-
grant, though of Lithuanian rath-
er than German origin. Unlike the
Philadelphia hazzan, however, Sil-
ver was an ordained rabbi, an
alumnus of Cincinnati’s Hebrew
Union College. For nearly half a
century, Dr. Silver served as rab-
bi of The Temple (Congregational
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