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Summary: Isaac Mayer Wise: A Convert's View
Review: This book was published in 1992. I found it in a smallish Jewish book/gift store in Minneapolis (St. Louis Park, which my anti-Semitic relatives call "St. Jewish Park.") Can it be that no other Jews have read this book? Isaac Mayer Wise FOUNDED Reform Judaism in our privileged country. He made it possible for us to be both Jewish and American. Who has said Kaddish for this man? Does anybody, these days, even know who he is? Wise strove for unity among a small, disparate Jewish community. He was THE wise man of his time... a teacher, i.e. rabbi. Not only was he a pioneer of his time, he a was a pioneer for which American Reform Jews should thank God at every chance. Do you know about this man? Well, you should... It's probably not even in print anymore. The first print was "Isaac Mayer Mise, Shaping American Judaism," part of the Littman Library of Jewish Civilization series, Oxford University Press. I have the first British edition, but I know it has been published in the USA. Your know what(!), find out for yourself... If you are part of the Reform movement, it will be more,(much more),than worth your effort... Shalom, B'nai B'rith! John Proesch Please e-mail me with comment, questions, at JVProesch@aol.com. Thanks! Shalom... John V. Proesch JVP@aol.com
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Summary: Isaac Mayer Wise: A Convert's View
Review: This book was published in 1992. I found it in a smallish Jewish book/gift store in Minneapolis (St. Louis Park, which my anti-Semitic relatives call "St. Jewish Park.") Can it be that no other Jews have read this book? Isaac Mayer Wise FOUNDED Reform Judaism in our privileged country. He made it possible for us to be both Jewish and American. Who has said Kaddish for this man? Does anybody, these days, even know who he is? Wise strove for unity among a small, disparate Jewish community. He was THE wise man of his time... a teacher, i.e. rabbi. Not only was he a pioneer of his time, he a was a pioneer for which American Reform Jews should thank God at every chance. Do you know about this man? Well, you should... It's probably not even in print anymore. The first print was "Isaac Mayer Mise, Shaping American Judaism," part of the Littman Library of Jewish Civilization series, Oxford University Press. I have the first British edition, but I know it has been published in the USA. Your know what(!), find out for yourself... If you are part of the Reform movement, it will be more,(much more),than worth your effort... Shalom, B'nai B'rith! John Proesch Please e-mail me with comment, questions, at JVProesch@aol.com. Thanks! Shalom... John V. Proesch JVP@aol.com
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