Excerpt from The American Jewish Year Book 5664: September 22, 1903, to September 9, 1904 The new feature in the american jewish year B001: for 5664 is the series of Biographical Sketches of Rabbis and Can tors in the United States, which was compiled because of the interest necessarily attaching to the education and literary activity of the spiritual guides of American Jewry. The 363 sketches here presented form the first installment of an American Jewish Who's Who. They do not lay claim to com pleteness either in respect to contents or in respect to num bers. Limitations of space forbade all but an outline. As to numbers, it cannot be assumed that the 694 persons addressed exhaust the number of Rabbis and Cantors at present offi ciating in the United States. Moreover, of this presumably incomplete number nearly 36 per cent were not heard from. The remaining 64 per cent include 341 who supplied the in formation used in compiling their sketches; four, information about whom was furnished by relatives and friends; four who declined to furnish any data about themselves, and whose names were omitted; eighteen who are officiating as volunteer Rabbis or Cantors; eight who are no longer connected with congregations; one who reported that he had moved to Canada; two who were reported by their former congregations as having removed; one who was reported deceased by a friend; and sixty-eight whose circulars were returned by the post office asinsufficicntly or incorrectly addressed. 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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American national trade bibliography.

The first volume contains articles on a variety of areas including Jewish involvement in the War of Independence and in the American Revolution, the New York Jewish Community of the time and a look at the Dutch and English Jews of the period.