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Isidor Kalisch was born on November 15, 1816 in Krotoschin, Posen, Prussia (now Poland). He was the son of Burnham and Sarah Tobias Kalisch.
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Isidor Kalisch was born on November 15, 1816 in Krotoschin, Posen, Prussia (now Poland). He was the son of Burnham and Sarah Tobias Kalisch.
Kalisch studied in Posen and attended universities in Berlin, Breslau, and Prague.
Kalisch's published attitude toward the Prussian government was too far advanced for the Germany of his day; several articles from his pen were condemned as seditious, and in 1848 he found it impossible to remain in Prussia. After a few months in England, he came to the United States, landing in New York in 1849. In America his scholarship gave distinction to the pulpits which he occupied, but a certain aggressive restlessness in his disposition, combined with the uncongenial immaturity of many reform Jewish communities, especially in the Middle West, caused him to pass through a series of short pastorates in Cleveland (1850 - 1856), Cincinnati (1856 - 1857), Milwaukee (1857 - 1860), Indianapolis for two years, Detroit (1864 - 1866), Leavenworth (1866 - 1868), Newark, New Jersey (1870 - 1872), and Nashville (1872 - 1875).
At Cleveland (1850 - 1856) he led a schism and formed a new congregation. Twice during these years he gave up a fixed rabbinate to serve as a public lecturer on Jewish themes. In 1855 Kalisch became a representatives to the Cleveland Assembly and in 1857 a co-founder and editor of Minhag America, the forerunner of the Union Prayer Book, the standard prayer book of reform Judaism. In 1869 he opened a school in New York City, which did not prove a successful venture. He returned from Nashville to Newark in 1875, giving himself thereafter to lecturing and to volunteer services as a rabbi.
Kalisch was an industrious writer. His most ambitious work is his Wegweiser für Rationelle Forschungen in den Biblischen Schriften (Cleveland, 1853), translated by M. Mayer as A Guide for Rational Enquiries into the Biblical Writings, Being an Examination of the Doctrinal Difference between Judaism and Primitive Christianity, Based upon a Critical Exposition of the Book of Matthew (1857). He also translated a number of works into English, notably Lessing's Nathan der Weise, 1869, the Sefer Yezirah, 1877, and Salomon Munk's Philosophie et Écrivains Philosophes des Juifes, 1881, and published a volume of original poems entitled Die T(tm)ne des Morgenlandes (1865).
Isidor Kalisch has been listed as a noteworthy clergyman by Marquis Who's Who.
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Kalisch conducted the lustily vehement polemics of his day with radical reform Judaism, which he considered as leading to atheism, and with orthodox Judaism, which he denounced as superstitious bigotry. He believed that a modernized Judaism would engender freedom of conscience. With a conviction as profound as in retrospect it appears pathetic, he held that outward political and inward spiritual emancipation of Jewry marked the dawn of a golden age of universal brotherhood. It is not to his discredit that history has so far mocked the lifelong dream of one whom Oliver Wendell Holmes characterized as "an admirable man and enlightened scholar. "
His first wife, Charlotte Bankman, whom he married in 1843, died in 1856. She was the mother of Samuel Kalisch, justice of the supreme court of New Jersey. In 1864 Kalisch married Adelaide Baer, who survived him.
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