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Lot #    5818
Auction End Date    10/8/2003 2:50:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    The Allied Countries and the Jews
Title (Hebrew)    a series of addresses
Author    R. Hyman Gerson Enelow.
City    New York
Publisher    Stettinger Bros.
Publication Date    1918
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description
   Only edition. 98, [1] pp., 8 vo., 187:120 mm., usual age staining, some chipping. Rare - major collecting have microfilm copy only.
          
Detailed
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   Prophecising democracy in Russia, no need for a State of Israel, indeed the Reform Jewry's platform for many years.

R. Hyman Enelow (Hillel Gershom; 1877–1934), U.S. Reform rabbi, scholar, and writer. Enelow, who was born in Kovno, Lithuania, went to the U.S. as a youth, and was ordained by Hebrew Union College in 1898. Enelow served as rabbi of Temple Israel, Paducah, Kentucky (1898–1901), Temple Adath Israel, Louisville, Kentucky (1901–12), and Temple Emanuel, New York (1912–34). During World War I, Enelow served in France with the Jewish Welfare Board. He was vice-president of the Central Conference of American Rabbis (1925–27), its president (1927–29), and a member of both the American Historical Society and the Jewish Historical Society of America. His wrote numerous books on Jewish religion. His Selected Works were published in four volumes by F. Levy in 1935.

          
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Language:    English
  
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