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XIV + 370 Pages. 8.25 x 6 inches. Top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Front hinge exposed. Bookplate on front board attests that the book was donated to Congregation Rodeph Shalom library on Feb. 20, 1899 by Jacob Gimbel (of Gimbel's Department Store fame). The book has thirty seven sermons by 27 American rabbis. Publication Committee, edited under the Auspices of the Central Conference of American Rabbis. Soiled maroon cloth with gold lettering, mild wear to the spine ends and edges, cracked inner hinges, introduction by Isaac Mayer Wise. Singerman title. Contents: Introduction / [Isaac M. Wise] - The eternal verities / David Philipson - The message of the New Year / Leon Harrison - Seeing God / Max Heller - Our refuge / Gustav Gottheil -- Religion's call / Samuel Schulman - The glory of religion / K. Kohler - Sin and forgiveness / I. S. Moses - Sin and penitence / Stephen S. Wise - A definition of Judaism / I. S. Moses - I am a Hebrew / Leon Harrison - The harvest festival / Emil G. Hirsch - Israel's religion, a message of light and gladness / Samuel Sale - The ancient anti-semite and his modern successors / Emil G. Hirsch - Hanukkah / G. Gottheil - Silence means ruin / Max Heller - Liberty and light / O. J. Cohen - Four sentiments / Max Landsberg - Judaism and temperance / G. Gottheil - Freedom, justice, and fidelity / I. M. Wise - The Ten Commandments, or, Old pictures in new frames / Henry Berkowitz - Genius in history and the history of genius / Isaac M. Wise - The need of a living creed / K. Kohler - Who is the real atheist? / Adolph Moses - What we have to be thankful for / Adolph Moses - Judaism and the Congress of Liberal Religious Societies / Joseph Stolz - Reform Judaism and liberal Christianity / Moses J. Gries - Jewish theology / Joseph Silverman - Judaism and Unitarianism / Maurice H. Harris - Congratulatory address / Joseph Stolz - Faith with reason / Joseph Krauskopf - The hope of immortality / Rudolph Grossman - The law / Louis Grossmann - Life / Samuel Greenfield - The weaknesses of Bible heroes / Edward N. Calisch - Manhood / E. Schreiber - The deluge / F. De Sola Mendes - The Jewish house, a sanctuary of the Lord / B. Felsenthal. Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR) is a "national organization of Reform rabbis. It was founded in 1889 by Isaac Mayer Wise, who had earlier established the Union of American Hebrew Congregations (UAHC, called the Union for Reform Judaism since 2003) and Hebrew Union College. After the college had ordained 20 rabbis, Wise felt it was time to replace the several regional rabbinic bodies with a national organization. Wise was elected president and headed the CCAR for 11 years until his death in 1900; subsequent presidents served for only two years. The conference thus took its place as the third major arm of the Reform Movement along with the UAHC and the college, and set the standard that each of the movements in American Judaism would have a theological seminary, a congregational body, and a rabbinic organization. From the beginning the CCAR saw a major part of its role as reflecting and directing the trends and theologies of the growing Reform Movement" (Levy in EJ 2007). Gimbel Brothers (known simply as Gimbels) was an American department store corporation that operated from 1887 to 1987. Adam Gimbel, a young Jewish Bavarian immigrant, opened his first store, a general store, in Vincennes, Indiana, in 1842. After a brief stay in Danville, Illinois, Gimbel relocated in 1887 to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, which was then a boomtown heavily populated by German immigrants. The new store quickly became the leading department store there. In 1887, the company moved its operations to the Gimbel Brothers Department Store in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Having 7 sons, Adam Gimbel decided to expand. It became a chain when it opened a second, larger store in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1894, under Isaac Gimbel, Adam?s grandson, moving its headquarters there. . . .
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