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Max Lilienthal was born on October 16, 1815 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany, the son of Loew Seligmann and Dina (Lichtenstein) Lilienthal. The father was one of the leading members of the small Jewish community of the Bavarian capital.
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Excerpt from Max Lilienthal, American Rabbi: Life and Writings This volume has been prepared as a tribute of affection and admiration to the memory of my never to-be-forgotten teacher and predecessor in office. Jew in religion, American in nationality, Max Lilien thal championed throughout his life the causes of Jewish idealism and American liberty. Therefore do we recall with reverent gratitude the fine service of this great American rabbi on the occasion of the centenary of his birth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Max Lilienthal was born on October 16, 1815 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany, the son of Loew Seligmann and Dina (Lichtenstein) Lilienthal. The father was one of the leading members of the small Jewish community of the Bavarian capital.
Max Lilienthal was among the few young Jews of his generation who matriculated in the University of Munich. He graduated in 1837, receiving the degree of doctor of philosophy.
Lilienthal's brilliant showing in his final examination attracted the attention of government officials and he was offered a position in the diplomatic service, which he declined when he found that to hold a government appointment he would be obliged to accept Christianity. While waiting for an opening elsewhere he continued his studies in the royal library of Munich, and contributed a series of bibliographical notices of the Hebrew manuscripts in its possession to the literary supplement of Die Allgemeine Zeitung des Judenthums. As a contributor he came into close relation with the editor, Dr. Ludwig Philippson, the best-known rabbi in Europe, who was at that time in correspondence with Uwaroff, the minister of education of the Russian Empire. A plan was afoot to modernize the Jewish schools in Russia, and a beginning was to be made in Riga, where a new school was to be established. When Uwaroff applied to Philippson to recommend a superintendent for this new school, Philippson suggested Lilienthal, who accepted the appointment. He remained in Russia five years, but the governmental attempt to establish modern schools failed, notably when it appeared that this policy was a part of a proselytizing plan.
Disheartened and disillusioned, Lilienthal left Russia, determined to seek asylum in a free land. He landed at New York in November 1845. Shortly after his arrival he was elected chief rabbi of three congregations in New York. He established also a day school for boys which attracted the attention of fathers not only in New York but also in other parts of the country. Among them were some Jewish residents of Cincinnati, Ohio, who urged the selection of Lilienthal for the vacant pulpit of the Bene Israel Congregation of that city. He was elected to the post, preached his inaugural sermon on July 14, 1855, and soon became one of the leading citizens of Cincinnati.
He served as a member of the board of education, 1860-1869; he was elected a member of the union board of high schools in 1861 and of the board of directors of the University of Cincinnati in 1872, holding the latter place until his death.
He served as associate editor of the American Israelite, to which he contributed articles on "My Travels in Russia" (1854 - 1856), and as editor of the first Jewish juvenile weekly published in the United States, the Sabbath School Visitor. He published a volume of German poems, Frühling, Freiheit und Liebe, in 1857, and in that same year, a Synopsis of the History of the Israelites from the time of Alexander the Macedonian to the Present Age (Cincinnati, 1857). In 1879 he was elected the first president of the Rabbinical Literary Association. He edited two volumes of the quarterly journal issued by this organization, the Hebrew Review, which ceased publication after his death. The closing years of his life were saddened by the virulent outburst of anti-Semitism in Germany and by the anti-Jewish persecutions in Russia, but even these inhumanities could not quench his optimistic hope of the coming of the better day of human brotherhood and universal peace. Indeed, this was the leading motif of his activity.
Lilienthal was the first rabbi with a European reputation to settle in the United States and the first rabbi to preach frequently from Christian pulpits. Possibly his greatest service lay in the promotion of good will between Christians and Jews. He took an active part in the establishment of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations in 1873 and the foundation of the Hebrew Union College at Cincinnati in 1875. He also organized the Rabbinical Literary Association.
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The keynote of his activity was his intense Americanism. He contested with all his power every attempt of sectarian religionists to encroach upon the American principle of the separation of church and state. He opposed in burning words the attempt to introduce Bible reading into the public schools. This Cincinnati "Bible in the Schools" case, which was argued before the courts in 1870 became a cause célèbre in the educational annals of the country.
Lilienthal was married to Babette Nettre.