Emil Schorsch Collection 1841-1999 bulk1927-1940

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Emil Schorsch Collection 1841-1999 bulk1927-1940

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Emil Schorsch was a rabbi in Hanover, Germany, from 1927 through 1938. Heimmigrated first to England and then the United States, where he served as a rabbi in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, from 1940 until 1964.Throughout his career he was a strong proponent of conservative Judaism. The collection documents both his personal and professional life. Therecords consist of his writings, including sermons, lectures, and speeches. Also included is an extensive amount of correspondence, as well asmaterial documenting the fate of the Jewish community in Hanover.

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Leo Baeck Institute.

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Schorsch, Emil 1899-1982

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Emil Schorsch was a rabbi in both Germany and, later, the United States. Throughout his rabbinical career he was a strong proponent of conservative Judaism. He was born in Hüngheim (Baden) in 1899. After attending a teachers' seminar in Esslingen he began his studies at the Jüdisch-Theologisches Seminar in Breslau in 1923. In 1926 he married Fanny Rothschild from Esslingen, in Württemberg. He graduated from the seminary in 1928. In 1927, a year before graduation, he acce...