Hebrew Union College, the Oldest
Rabbinical Seminary inn. America

DETROIT JEWISH NEWS-53 ligion." Its president, Dr. Nelson' The Museum contains one of
Friday, September 24, 1954
Glueck, has before him the task 1 the richest collections of works
of combining the dreams of the of Jewish art. Especially note-
worthy is the collection of the
There were Reform congrega- two Wise's.
The campus of the college at ritual objects of the abandoned
tions
in
every
city
in
America
By DR. LEON FRAM
conceived a vision of American eagerly waiting to elect the Cincinnati is both a monument synagogue of the Chinese Jewish
Rabbi of Temple Israel
Jewry as developing its own
members of the graduating and a dynamo of the Jewish colony of Kai Fung Fu.
The
(Editor's Note: This is another concept of Judaism. To use his classes to their pulpits. Condi spirit. The library possesses one ' American Jewish Archives has
in the series of • Jewish News own words, "American Rabbis, tions changed rapidly after 1875 of the greatest collections of an exhibit of fascinating manu-
men educated in America, men
Tercentenary articles on the de- filled with the free spirit of Millions of Jews began to ar- Judaica in all the history of scripts and pictures of events of
American Jewish history.
velopment of Jewish religious America, men who combine a rive from the strongholds of Jewish scholarship.
tradition in. Eastern Europe
institutions in America.)
modern education with a
Orthodoxy became the religion
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knowledge of Jewish law" were
of the majority of American
Hebrew Union College, the what American Jews needed.
Jews. Reform Jews were rele-
first training school for rabbis
It was this vision of American gated to a minority.
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to be established in America,
founded at Cincinnati in 1875, is Judaism which impelled him to
At the time of its humble be-
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the oldest rabbinical seminary in establish the pioneering Rabbin- ginning, Isaac M. Wise was him-'
ical Seminary on the soil of self the sole professor of the He-
America.
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How did it happen that Re- America — the Hebrew Union brew Union College. As it grew
form Judaism took the iniative College.
and developed, it attracted to its
"The Family Podolsky"
in providing a school of Higher
It also comes as a surprise to faculty men who were recog-
Jewish Learning for America? It most people to learn that Re- nized as among the greatest
was because the Orthodox Jews form Judaism at one time com- Jewish scholars of their time.
of the early period of American manded the affiliation of a ma- There was Moses Mielziner, pro-
history were content to import jority of American Jews. This fessor of Talmud; Dr. Gotthard
their rabbis, their religious was true during the third quar- Deutsch, professor of history;
books and articles from Europe. ter of the 19th Century when Dr. David Neumark, professor of
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They felt that in all these mat- the movement of Reform Juda- Jewish medieval philosophy, and
ters, authority and authenticity ism was on the march. It is Dr. Moses Buttenwieser, profes-
lay with the Old World.
this fact that accounts for Isaac sor of Bible.
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Mayer Wise, founder of the first Rabbinical Seminary in the dream of its f o u n de r,
Hebrew Union College, early America upon a solid foundation. namely the ordination of rab-
bis raised in America and at
home in the American spirit.
When the college had been in
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produce • not only American
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came President of the Hebrew
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Union College. Dr. Jacob Rader
Marcus, a classmate of the
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writer of this article, became
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the Adolph Ochs Professor of
the History of American Jewry.
He has established the American
Jewish Archives which collects
and collates original manu-
scripts and artifacts of the his-
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tory of American Jews.
"Whosoever Honors the Torah Shall
The dream of Isaac M. Wise
found its final consumation
when an American born Jew
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Himself Be Honored"
and a graduate of the Hebrew
Union College, was elected
president of the college. Dr. Nel-
son Glueck is a Jewish scholar
and an archeologist who com-
mands world recognition. His
discovery of King Solomon's
Copper Mines and his definitive
work on "The River Jordan"
have won him world fame.
In 1922, another distin-
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that there were over 2,000,000
Jews living in the area of New
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York City, and another million
in the Atlantic coast area, led
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Dr. Stephen S. Wise to the
anniversary of Jewish Settlement in America. In every
conclusion that it was neces-
Jewish community rabbis will dedicate their sermons to
sary to have a Liberal Rabbin-
ical college in that area.
this important milestone.
However, it became apparent
Educators will evaluate Jewish contributions to culture,
that the maintenance of two
separate Rabbinical seminaries,
science, industry and other fields of endeavor that broad-
one in Cincinnati and one in
ened and enriched the scope of American life.
New York, was too taxing a bur-
den for the Liberal Jewish group.
The two seminaries have now
been merged into one which
bears the name "Hebrew Union
College-Jewish Institute of Re-

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