- William Rosenau
William Rosenau (1865,
Wolsztyn ,Poznan Province - 1943,United States ) was a leader ofReform Judaism in the beginning of the twentieth century in the United States.In 1876, Rosenau immigrated to the United States. He received a
B.A. from theUniversity of Cincinnati and aPh.D fromJohns Hopkins University . He also gotrabbinic ordination fromHebrew Union College .He served as rabbi in
Omaha, Nebraska and inCongregation Oheb Shalom ofBaltimore, Maryland . He was also on the facaulty ofJohns Hopkins University .Rosenau was considered a "
radical reformer " regarding ritual and he was a member of theanti-Zionist American Council for Judaism .He was an editor of the revised editions of the "
Union Prayer Book " and the "Union Haggadah ".References
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Goldman, Yosef . "Hebrew Printing in America, 1735-1926, A History and Annotated Bibliography " (YGBooks 2006). ISBN 1599756854.
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