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Lot #    23735
Auction End Date    6/9/2009 12:10:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Sunday Lectures
Author    R. Joseph Krauskopf
Publisher    Reform Congregation Kneseth Israel
Publication Date    1888-1916
          
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Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
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Physical
Description		    Only editions. 41 booklets 230:150 mm., light age staining. Good copies bound or loose in the original wrappers.
          
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Description		    Lectures by R. Joseph Krauskopf (and R. Isaac Landman, beginning in 1912, and R. Charles J. Freund in 1914, and by R.J.Leonard Levy in 1914--1916) delivered before the Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel in Philadelphia between 1888 and 1916. The lectures and their dates are as follows: Three foes of Judasim-- II. Conservatism February 5, 1888 (Series I, no.8)/ Three foes of Judaism-- III. Reform February 12, 1888 (Series I, no. 9) The voice of the people October 14, 1888(Series II, no. 2)/ Is this a Christian nation? March 2, 1890 (Series III, no. 19)/ Shifting but not drifting April 27, 1890 (Series III, no .27)/ Borne and Heine (part of a series on Jewish converts and perverts) February 22, 1891 (Series IV, no. 18)/ Isaac Disraeli (part of a series on Jewish converts and perverts) March 8, 1891 (Series IV, no. 19)/ Benjamin Disraeli (part of a series on Jewish converts and perverts) March 15, 1891 (Series IV, no. 20)/ On the threshold 1891 (Series V, no. 6)/ Civilization's debt to woman January 17, 1892 (Series V, no.13)/ Civilization's duty to woman January 24, 1892 (Series V, no. 14)/ Israel's faith is Israel's fate April 14, 1895 (Series VIII, no. 26)/ Thy people shall be my people November 8, 1896 (Series X, no. 4)/ The people without a country January 3, 1897 (Series X, no. 12)/ Woman against woman February 21, 1897 (Series X, no. 19)/ Israel--weak, and yet strong March 26, 1899 (Series XII, no. 24)/ "Quoth the raven, 'Nevermore'" Ncvember 23, 1902 (Series XVI, no. 4)/ Quoth the reason "Evermore" November 30, 1902 (Series XVI, no. 5)/ What shall our children believe? February 7, 1904 (Series XVII, no. 15)/ Israel -- a nation, race or people? March 5, 1905 (Series XVIII, no. 17)/ Much profession--little practice. The fallacy of "Rich as a Jew" December 3 & 10, 1905 (Series XIX, no. 5&6)/ The club versus the home January 21, 1906 (Series XIX, no. 11)/ Some ideals of the Jew Moarch 10 &17,1907 (Series XX, nos 18-19)/ Why we are not Christians March 31, 1907 (Series XX, no. 21)/ The Optimistic spirit of the Passover//"Not guilty!" saith the Jew April 6 &11, 1909 (Series XXII, Nos. 23 &24)/ Is the Jew disintegrating or rejuvenating? December 12, 1909 (Series XXIII, no. 6)/ The Jew: what he is and what he is not January 23 & 30, 1910 (Series XXIII, nos. 11 &12)/ Why go to Church February 26, 1911 (Series XXIV, no 15)/ The parting of the ways between the United States and Russia December 10, 1911 (Series XXV, no. 6)/ Re-introducing the Jew January 7, 1912 (Series XXV, no. 10)/ The significance of Shylock April 19, 1914 (Series XXVII, no. 23)/ The B'nai B'rith's opportunity November 29.1914 (Series 14, no. 5)/ Henrik Ibsen (III. Pillars of Society) January 24, 1915 (Series 14, no. 12)/ Henrik Ibsen (IV. A doll's house) January 31, 195 (Series I4, no. 13)/ Henrik Ibsen (V. Ghosts) February 14, 1915 (Series 14, no. 14)/ Henrik Ibsen (VII. The Master Builder) February 28, 1915 (Series 14, no. 16)/ Henry Ibsen (VIII. When we dead awaken) March 7, 1915 (Series 14, no. 17)/ G-d and the State March 14, 1915 )Series 14, no. 18)/ Poverty must be abolished March 21, 1915 (Series 14, no. 19)/ The Jews and the Messiah December 19, 1915 (Series XV, no. 7)/ Maurice Maeterlinck (II. The life of the bee) January 23, 1916 (Series 15, no. 12)/ Maurice Maeterlinck (V. Sister Beatrice) February 13, 1916 (Series 15, no. 15).
          
Paragraph 2    R. Joseph Krauskopf was born 21 January 1858 in Ostrowo, Prussian-Posen to Hirsch Krauskopf, a local lumber merchant. After his father's death, R. Krauskopf emigrated to the United States in 1872 to join an half-brother, only to discover he had died. R. Krauskopf found work for a tea merchant in New Jersey until he entered the first class of Hebrew Union College. R. Krauskopf was recommended to R. Isaac Mayer Wise by the Christian widow of a newspaper editor, who noted that "he has all the Christian virtues."

While rooming with Henry Berkowitz, the two created a Jewish youth periodical entitled The Sabbath Visitor. This interest in education was to remain an interest for both in their post-HUC careers. Following ordination, R. Krauskopf accepted a pulpit in Kansas City, Missouri. He remained in Kansas City from 1883-1887 when he became the rabbi at the Philadelphia congregation of Keneseth Israel. R. Krauskopf was an extremely popular rabbi in both congregations- at Kansas City, his sermons were regularly published and growth in Philadelphia led to the building of a new synagogue. R. Joseph Krauskopf was an avid supporter of radical reform in Judaism. In 1885, R. Krauskopf wrote to R. Kaufman Kohler of Beth El in New York in order to propose a meeting between reform-minded rabbis. As a result of this letter, R. Krauskopf served as vice-president at the 1885 conference where the Pittsburgh Platform was written. R. Krauskopf implemented many reforms in his personal congregation including Sunday worship.

R. Krauskopf's interests extended well beyond Reform Judaism. In 1884, R. Krauskopf founded the Poor Man's Free Labor Bureau to help indigents find employment. Later, in 1894, R. Krauskopf received a visa via a special Congressional resolution and traveled to Russia to examine the problem of mass immigration of Eastern European Jews. While in Europe, R. Krauskopf met with author Leo Tolstoy who said that the key to Jewish survival was in agriculture. Impressed by a model farm school in Odessa, R. Krauskopf decided to start a similar program in the United States. In Doylestown, Pennsylvania, R. Krauskopf began the National Farm School, and supported it through lecture tours. He viewed it as "one fo the best means of securing safety and happiness to the sorely afflicted of our people."

R. Krauskopf was also a leader in the Jewish Publication Society. He died in Atlantic City, New Jersey on 12 June 1923. R. Krauskopf married twice: Rose Berkowitz in 1883 and Sybil Feineman in 1893. He had four children: Harold, Eleanore, Manfred and Madeline.

          
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