Prefatory Note
Abbreviations
Note on Transliteration
1 Bohemia (1819–1849)
Metternich’s Europe • Jewish Life in an Age of Reaction • Early
Years • Departure
2 New Beginning (1846–1854)
Young America • Jewish Life • Rabbi in Albany • Organizing American
Jewry • Early Writings • Sortie in Charleston: Backlash in Albany •
Anshe Emeth • Formulating his Beliefs • The Asmonean • A Bible
History • Heading West
3 Cincinnati (1854–1900)
Queen City of the West • Congregation B’nai Jeshurun • The
Israelite • Zion College • Conference—Union—Synod • David Einhorn •
Cleveland Platform: Quick Victory—Lengthy War • Minhag America •
The Essence of Judaism • Fighting for Jewish Rights • Political
Dimensions • The Civil War • At North College Hill • First Fruits
in Cincinnati • Wider Ambitions • Among the Gentiles (1867–1878) •
Years of Sorrow and Strife (1869–1874) • Flirting with the Orthodox
• Reformers in Conflict: East versus West (1869) • Establishing the
Union (1871–1873) • Call to New York (1873) • ‘We Must have “Union
in Israel”’ • President of Hebrew Union College • Appendix: The
Principal Changes Introduced in Minhag America
4 Fulfilment: Years of Harvest
Duties Old and New • Remarriage (1876) • Sustaining the College
(1875–1883) • Reform Moves On: The Pittsburgh Platform • A New
American Jewish World • Seventieth Birthday: Central Conference of
American Rabbis • Sunset • The Legacy
Bibliographical note
Glossary
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Sefton D. Temkin was Emeritus Professor of Jewish History at the State University of New York at Albany. He died in 1996.
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- George L. Berlin, AJS Review
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