\"Talmudic Scholar\" Morris Jastrow Hand Written Letter Dated 1892 Mueller COA

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Up for sale a RARE! \"Talmudic Scholar\" Morris Jastrow Hand Written Letter Dated 1892. This is the only hand written document to come up for sale in the last 10 years as most are in Museums including the Jastrow Collection of papers at the University of Pennsylvania.This item iscertified authentic by Todd Mueller and comes with their Certificate ofAuthenticity.
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Eastern States by the OrthodoxIsaac Leeser, and in the Western by theReformIsaac Mayer Wise. It dealt with higher education,representation, and the regulation of liturgical changes, and Jastrow\'spersonality became a factor in its solution. When, through the exertions ofLeeser, the Maimonides College, the first rabbinical college in the U.S., wasopened at Philadelphia, Oct., 1867, Jastrow occupied the chair of religiousphilosophy and Jewish history, and later also ofexegesis; he was identified with the college until it closedits doors four years later. He supported the plan of organizing the Board ofDelegates of Civil and Religious Rights, and, under its auspices, the AmericanJewish Publication Society(1873).His main activity, however, from 1867 to 1871, was directed toward combatingthe tendencies expressed in the resolutions of the rabbinical conferences of1869 and 1871. His opposition to them found expression in a series of polemicalarticles published inThe Hebrew LeaderandThe JewishTimes. To the same period belongs his collaboration with the leading rabbi inBaltimore,Benjamin Szold, in the revision of the latter\'s prayer-book (AvodatYisrael) and home prayer-book (Hegyon Leb), and his translation ofthe same prayer-books into English. (The prayer-book was later more thoroughlyrevised after his death.) In his own congregation his influence effectedconsolidation and growth; in the Jewish community he participated in theformation and reorganization of societies. In 1876 Jastrow fell severely ill,and for some years his public activities were limited by his poor health, whichnecessitated a sojourn in the south of Europe. During this period of withdrawalhe fully matured the plans for his great work,A Dictionary of theTargumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature(Londonand New York, 1886–1903). When the dictionary was approaching completion inmanuscript (1895), the Jewish Publication Society of America was about to beginwork on its projected new translation of the Bible into English, and to Jastrowwas entrusted the chief-editorship. At the time of his death the translation ofmore than half the books of the Bible had been revised by him. In addition tothese two great undertakings, he was a member of the Publication Committee ofthe Jewish Publication Society from the time of its establishment, and wasconnected with theJewish Encyclopediaaseditor of the department of the Talmud; he took a prominent part in theproceedings of theJewish Ministers\' Association, held a seat in the centralboard of theAlliance IsraéliteUniversellein Paris, was on the committee of theMeḳiẓe Nirdamim, was oneof the vice-presidents of theAmerican Federation of Zionists, and was active in relievingthe needs, material and intellectual, of the Russian immigrants. Jastrowinitially allowed his congregation to join theReformUnion of American HebrewCongregations. After the Reform movement united around the radical\"Pittsburgh Platform\"in 1885, Jastrow, along with many other rabbis of the time, withdrew hiscongregation\'s membership. In 1886 together with RabbiHenry Pereira Mendes(founderof theOrthodox Union) he helpedRabbiSabato MoraisestablishtheJewishTheological Seminary of America. It was only in 1913, ten yearsafter Jastrow\'s death, that the next generation of management altered theOrthodox principles of the school, and from them emergedConservative Judaism. Hewas removed by his congregation in September 1892 in favor of the Reformordained Dr.Henry Berkowitz. Dr.Jastrow attributed this decision to the growing popularity of radical reformsand the congregation\'s desire to compete for membership with the more liberalsynagogues. In his farewell speech he chastised his congregation insisting that\"he who does not feel himself in unison with the tenets of Israel\'sreligion as they have been transmitted from generation to generation, [is] notjustified in occupying a Jewish pulpit established for the proclamation ofJewish doctrines.\" Several efforts were made by him to prevent theintroduction of certain reforms, including articles in the public press. In1894, the Board felt the necessity to write him to ask him to refrain frompublishing articles that might create strife in the congregation. He served asrabbi emeritus of the congregation until his death in 1903, on the Jewishfestival ofShemini Atzereth. In 1900theUniversity of Pennsylvaniaconferredupon him the doctorate of literature. He died three years later inGermantown, Philadelphia. Besidesthe journals previously mentioned, articles of his appear in theRevue des Études Juives;Frankel\'sMonatsschrift; Berliner\'sMagazin für dieWissenschaft des Judenthums;Sippurim;Journal ofBiblical Literature;Hebraica;Young Israel;Libanon;\"Jewish Record\";Jewish Messenger;AmericanHebrew;Jewish Exponent; etc.