- Emanuel Schreiber
Emanuel Schreiber (
December 13 ,1852 –1932) was an American rabbi originally fromLeipnik ,Moravia .Schreiber received his education at the Talmudical college of his native town, the rabbinical seminary at
Eisenstadt , Hungary, and the Hochschule inBerlin (Ph.D., Heidelberg, 1873). In 1874 he was appointed teacher at the Samson School atWolfenbüttel , and subsequently became rabbi ofElbing (1875) and Bonn on the Rhine (1878). Later, Schreiber came to the United States, having in 1881 accepted a call to the rabbinate of Mobile, Ala., where he remained until 1883, when he was elected rabbi of Denver, Colo. He then held successively the rabbinates ofLos Angeles, California (1885-89);Little Rock, Arkansas (1889-91);Spokane, Washington (1891-92);Toledo, Ohio (1892-97); andYoungstown, Ohio (1897-1899). From 1899 he was rabbi of Congregation Emanu-El,Chicago .Schreiber was editor of the "Jüdische Gemeinde- und Familien-Zeitung" (later "Die Reform") from 1876 to 1881, and of the "Chicago Occident" from 1893 to 1896; and he wrote many essays for the Jewish press. Of his works may be mentioned:
*"Die Principien des Judenthums Verglichen mit Denen des Christentums," Leipzig, 1877
*"Abraham Geiger ," ib. 1879
*"Erzählungen der Heiligen Schrift," 4th ed., Leipzig, 1880
*"Die Selbstkritik der Juden," Berlin, 1880, and Leipzig, 1890
*"Graetz's Geschichtsbauerei," ib. 1881
*"Der Talmud vom Standpunkt des Modernen Judenthums," ib. 1881
*"The Talmud," Denver, 1884
*"Reform Judaism and Its Pioneers," Spokane, 1892
*"Moses Bloch , a Biography," Chicago, 1894
*"The Bible in the Light of Science," Pittsburg, 1897.References
*JewishEncyclopedia
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