Les Juifs de Cincinnati

Cincinnati, the great Ohio city on the river of the same name, became in the nineteenth century a major center of American Judaism, particularly of the Reform movement, driven by a significant immigration of German-speaking Jews. The city hosted the founding of Hebrew Union College in 1875, the first enduring rabbinical seminary in the United States and a great center of Reform Jewish training, closely linked to the work of Isaac Mayer Wise. The Jewish community, prosperous and integrated, contributed greatly to the economic, cultural, and religious life of the city. Cincinnati thus played a structuring role in shaping modern American Judaism.

Sources & resources

• Encyclopaedia Judaica — 2e éd., Keter/Macmillan
• Jewish Virtual Library ↗