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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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