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Stephen Samuel Wise (March 17, 1874 – April 19, 1949) was an early 20th-century American Reform rabbi and Zionist leader in the Progressive Era. Born in Budapest, he was an infant when his family immigrated to New York.
Stephen Samuel Wise was a Reform rabbi, a leader of the Zionist movement in the United States, and a liberal activist who influenced the development of Reform Judaism in that country. Wise earned his Ph.D. at Columbia University in 1901 and received his rabbinical training from private teachers.
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Feb 15, 2016 · Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, the foremost American Jewish leader of the 1930s and ’40s, was a study in contradictions. He rose to fame as a champion of democracy in Jewish communal life – then hounded and suppressed dissenters when they endangered his power.
Sep 22, 2015 · The Stephen S. Wise Collection reflects the career of Rabbi Wise, Zionist leader, founder and president of the Jewish Institute of Religion, and founder and senior rabbi of the Free Synagogue in New York City.
Apr 14, 2022 · BALTIMORE (WJZ) -- A 22-year-old man has been charged in the January murder of Chesley Patterson, the manager of a popular Little Italy restaurant, Baltimore Police said Wednesday. Samuel Wise...
Stephen Samuel Wise was born in Budapest in 1874, but as a child emigrated to New York, where he received his Jewish and secular education. He was ordained as a rabbi in the new Jewish Theological Seminary and went on to become a Reform rabbi.
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WISE, STEPHEN S. (1874 – 1949), American rabbi, Zionist leader, and social activist. Scion of a family of European rabbis, Stephen Samuel Wise was brought to America as an infant from Budapest to join his father, Aaron Wise.
