Stephen Samuel Wise
✓ Source-basedstableAmerican rabbi (1874-1949)
United StatesLived 1874 to 1949 · aged 75Stephen Samuel Wise 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. He followed his father and grandfather in becoming a rabbi, serving in New York and in Portland, Oregon.
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Wise and his son worked as laborers in the shipbuilding yards of the Luder Marine Construction Company, Stamford, Connecticut, during World War I
Stephen Wise on visit to Kiryat Anavim, 1935
Jewish activist Louise Waterman Wise, addressing the 1944 War Emergency Conference of the World Jewish Congress her husband was president of, in Atlantic City
The follow-up telegram sent to Wise directly by Gerhart Riegner, warning of plans for the Holocaust
The mausoleum of Rabbi Stephen Wise in Westchester Hills CemeteryIn their orbit 1
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Stephen Samuel Wise 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. He followed his father and grandfather in becoming a rabbi, serving in New York and in Portland, Oregon. Wise was also a founding member of the NAACP.
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