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Kaufmann Kohler was born on May 10, 1843 in Fiirth, Germany. The son ot Moritz Kohler and BabetteLoewremayer.
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This book by prominent rabbi Kaufmann Kohler explains the beliefs traditions and history of the Jewish faith Detailed yet accessible explanations of the core tenets of the religion are offered by Kohler whose decades spent in devotion and study of Judaism imbue the pages with an authentic and intimate knowledge of the faith from ancient times onward First published in 1918 this account of the Jewish religion was praised by Kohler s contemporaries in the American Jewish community The book is split into three fundamental parts each of which studies an aspect of Judaistic belief The first part examines the nature of God and the divine as understood by the Jews The consciousness of man and concept of one God and the role the Torah plays in defining and explaining the nature of the Father is detailed The various traits of God his ultimate knowledge love omnipotence and strict adherence to truth receive their own chapters The manner by which God makes himself known through the creation and miracles is also examined The second part is entitled Man and discusses where humankind stands in the view of Judaism The nature of mankind of its duality of good and evil and of the aspect of God s spirit present in all men is explained The notion s of divine retribution for misdeeds and of a reward for good acts and the elements of civilisation which contribute to the moral behaviour of man are also examined In the third part entitled Israel and the Kingdom of God we hear a historical account of Judaism s beginnings in Israel The notion of the Kingdom of God and its connection to the Israelites is explored while the traditions and customs of the priesthood are also detailed Chapters are also devoted to other monotheistic faiths which followed Judaism as well as the significance of the synagogue as a place of worship Kaufmann Kohler was an influential Jewish intellectual and rabbi who rose to prominence after emigrating to the USA at a young age after
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Kaufmann Kohler was born on May 10, 1843 in Fiirth, Germany. The son ot Moritz Kohler and BabetteLoewremayer.
Kaufmann Kohler received his rabbinical training at Hassfurt, Höchberg near Würzburg, Mainz, Altona, and at Frankfurt am Main (under Samson Raphael Hirsch), and his university training at Munich, Berlin, Leipzig, and Erlangen (Doctor of Philosophy 1868. His thesis, "Der Segen Jacob"s", was one of the earliest Jewish essays in the field of the higher Biblical criticism, and its radical character had the effect of closing to him the Jewish pulpit in Germany).
Abraham Geiger, to whose Zeitschrift Kohler became a contributor at an early age, strongly influenced his career and directed his steps to America. In 1869 he accepted a call to the pulpit of the Beth-El congregation in Detroit. In 1871 he became rabbi of Chicago Sinai Congregation.
February 26, 1903, he was elected to the presidency of Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati. While in Chicago he introduced Sunday lectures as supplementary to the regular Sabbath service. Kohler served for many years as president of the New York Board of Ministers, and was honorary president of the Central Conference of American Rabbis.
He was deeply interested in the "Jewish Chautauqua" movement.
Shortly before his departure from New York in 1903 he delivered a series of six lectures at the Jewish Theological Seminary on "Apocryphal Literature". Among his published scientific studies and lectures are:
"On Capital Punishment" (1869);
"The Song of Songs" (1877);
"Church and Synagogue in Their Mutual Relations" (1889);
He also edited the German collected writings of David Einhorn (1880).
He wrote important studies of Jesus and Paul, and at the time of his death, he was writing "The Origins of the Synagogue and the Church", which was published posthumously in 1929.
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Kaufmann Kohler was married to Johanna.