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Bernhard Felsenthal, son of Simon and Eva (Gall) Felsenthal, was born at Münchweiler, Bavaria.
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Bernhard Felsenthal, son of Simon and Eva (Gall) Felsenthal, was born at Münchweiler, Bavaria.
From the age of twenty to thirty-two he taught in a Jewish school in his native village.
In April 1858, he went to Chicago, where, after three years’ service in a bank, he became, in June 1861, the first rabbi of Sinai Congregation, an outgrowth of the Jüdischer Reformverein in which he had been the leading spirit.
In 1864, he was elected rabbi of Zion Congregation, Chicago, which he served until he was made Rabbi Emeritus in 1887.
He died in his eighty-seventh year.
Such was the unsensational framework within which was lived a singularly unassuming life.
When the exigencies of public life called him, he gave himself readily, though primarily as the scholar.
In 1879, with Emerson and ten others, he was elected honorary vicepresident of the Free Religious Association.
He served the Jewish Publication Society of America, and made the first suggestion for the founda tion of the American Jewish Historical Society.
By rising above his contemporaries in the brave expression of his matured evaluation of the two causes to which his life was most fervently given, Reform Judaism and Zionism, the sweet-souled, beloved teacher, Bernhard Felsenthal, attained a permanent and significant place in the history of the ideology of American-Jewish life.
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Yet, Felsenthal was a leading figure in the development of Reform Judaism in the Middle West, and had a far-flung influence among reform and orthodox Jews alike, due to his fine- fibered personality.
Two main strands run through them—Reform Judaism and Zionism.
When he became convinced that a Reform Judaism which emphasized universalism and negated Jewish national elements, would not fulfil the Jewish mission, but would lead to the absorption of Israel, this conservative Reform Rabbi declared repeatedly, “This extreme Reform we have in America, which knows no limit, will gradually lead to the extinction of Israel and its religion. ”
As a young man, he pleaded eloquently in his Kol Kore Bamidbar (A Voice Crying in the Wilderness, 1859) and other writings and addresses for discarding what he called the outworn elements of Judaism, so that it should appear as the natural religion in the soul of man.
Similarly, in his earlier years, he had showed no active sympathy for Jewish Palestinian movements ; but when Dr. Herzl organized the Zionist movement in 1897, Felsenthal, in the face of ridicule and derision, was one of the first in America to rally to its support.
The septuagenarian and octogenarian Rabbi stood toweringly alone in Reform Judaism as an advocate of Zionism.
He taught with tireless vigor, especially in his masterly “Jewish Theses” (“Jüdische Thesen, ” Deborah, September-November 1901; translated in Menorah Monthly, November 1901-January , that Judaism was not only a religion, but a national culture, “the sum total of all the manifestations of the distinctively Jewish national spirit. ”
His conviction daily became “more intensified that Zionism alone will be the savior of our nation and its religion, and save it from death and disappearance. ”
Only Zionism, he asserted, could effectively counteract those environmental forces which tend progressively to the assimilation, absorption, and extinction of the Jew.
His wife, Caroline Levi, died in December 1863, two years after their marriage.
A year and a half later he married Henrietta Blumenfeld, who bore him five children, and who died in 1901.
