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Gustav Gottheil

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Gustav Gottheil , 1827-1903, American Reform rabbi, b. Prussia. He served as assistant (1855-60) in the Berlin Reform Temple and as rabbi (1860-73) in Manchester, England. From 1873 until his retirement in 1899 he was assistant rabbi, and then rabbi, of Temple Emanu-El, New York City. His influence on Reform Judaism in the United States was great; he was the founder of several Jewish societies and a governor of the Cincinnati Hebrew Union College. In 1886 he prepared the first American Jewish hymnbook, much of which was incorporated in the Union Hymnal adopted by most of the American Reform congregations.... Read more
Richard James Horatio Gottheil
1862-1936, American Orientalist and Semitic scholar, b. Manchester, England; son of Gustav Gottheil . He taught Semitic languages at Columbia from 1886 and was head of the Oriental department of the New York Public Library from... Read more
Reform Judaism
...Jews by members of the American upper class, which had characterized most of the century, began to harden. Rabbi Gustav Gottheil of Temple Emanu-El in New York complained that in the 1880s “ private schools began to be closed to Jewish... Read more

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; ...easy distance of New York to join in the formation of a Jewish Ministers Association. (11) The six conveners were Gustav Gottheil (1827-1903), of Congregation Emanu-El; Adolph Huebsch (1830-1884), of Ahavath Chesed; Henry S. Jacobs (1827-1893... Read more
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; ...Hanukka in the US Diaspora. "The customary candles disappear from more and more Jewish homes," lamented Reform Rabbi Gustav Gottheil as early as the late 19th century. Christmas, lamented essayist Esther Jane Ruskay a few decades later, "gives a... Read more

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