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Isidor Kalisch
Isidor Kalisch (15 November 1816 - 11 May 1886) was a rabbi who wrote both in prose and verse.
He was born at Krotoschin in Prussia, and was educated at Berlin, Breslau and Prague. In 1848 he came to London, but passed on in 1849 to the United States, where he ministered as rabbi in Cleveland, Cincinnati, Milwaukee, Detroit and Newark, New Jersey. At Newark from 1875 he gave himself entirely to literary work, and exercised a strong. influence as leader o the radical and reforming Jewish party.
Among his works are Wegweisen fur rationelle Forschungen in den biblischen Schriften (1853); and translations of Nathan der Weis (1869); Sepher Jezirah (1877); and Munz's History of Philosophy among the Jews (1881). He also wrote a good deal of German and Hebrew verse.
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