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Krauskopf, Joseph : OUR DEBT AND DUTY TO THE REV. DR. ISAAC M. WISE: AN ADDRESS [AT] PHILADELPHIA, APRIL 5TH, 1903

[Philadelphia],: No Publisher Listed, 1903

1st edition. Original stapled paper wrappers with illustration of the Rev. Dr. Isaac M. Wise on front and illustration of Hebrew Union College on back. 8vo, 10 pages. €œNo other Rabbi ever achieved what Dr. Wise had achieved for Israel’s sacred cause; no other Rabbi ever toiled and suffered for reform as he toiled and suffered…. He was the Jochanan ben Zaccai, who, by establishing the Hebrew Union College, founded a new centre for Israel’s religion and literature, and saved his people from the threatening doom of dissolution. €� Krauskopf’s eulogy here discusses at great lenght Hebrew Union College, which was founded by Dr. Wise. It ends with “Ours is the obligation to endow the Hebrew Union College, - as our debt of gratitude to Dr. Wise, as our duty to our children and ourselves, â€� and with a form to donate to the Isaac M. Wise Memorial Fund National Committee which was an endowment fund for the Hebrew Union College. Joseph Krauskopf, (1858–1923) the author, was himself a leading U. S. Reform rabbi who very much led the movement following Wise’s death which he memorialized here in 1903.. While enrolled at HUC in the first class of Hebrew Union College, “he wrote a periodical for Jewish youth entitled the Sabbath Visitor and three textbooks for religious education. After serving a congregation in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1887 Krauskopf became rabbi of the Reform Congregation Kenesseth Israel, Philadelphia, which he served for the remainder of his life. Krauskopf became a leader of radical Reform, introducing Sunday services and compiling a Service Ritual (1888, 1924) . A leading figure in the national organizations of Reform Judaism, he served as a vice president of the conference which adopted the Pittsburgh Platform in 1885, the conference which he first proposed to Kohler, and president of the Central Conference of American Rabbis (1903–05) . He was active in work for the poor, arguing for increased sanitation and better living conditions. He proposed a program of direct contact between successful and poor Jews, an unsuccessful forerunner of Big Brother programs. A man of forceful energy, he paid attention to the need for Jewish literature, and the outcome was the foundation in 1888 of the Jewish Publication Society of America, of which he was the first honorary secretary. Impressed during a visit to Russia in 1894 by the zeal with which Jews engaged in agriculture where the Russian government allowed, he established the National Farm School at Doylestown, Pennsylvania, in 1896 ‘as one of the best means of securing safety and happiness to the sorely afflicted of our people. €™ In 1917 he was appointed to direct food conservation among Jews for the U. S. Food Administration. At first an anti-Zionist, Krauskopf modified his attitude as a result of the labors of Jewish agriculturalists in Palestine. There too he was impressed with their agricultural work and soon found himself a defender of Zionism against anti-Zionistsâ€� (Temkin in EJ, 2007) . OCLC: 173007139, OCLC lists 2 copies worldwide (Hebrew Union College, National Library of Israel) . Pencil marks in margins on few pages, slight tearing along spine. Overall Very Good Condition. Rare (AMR-57-3)

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