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Jacob Voorsanger papers, 1885 approximately.
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Title:
Jacob Voorsanger papers, 1885 approximatelyWestern Jewish History Center collection on Rabbi Jacob Voorsanger
Creator/Contributor:
Voorsanger, Jacob, 1852-1908, creator, creator.Creator/Contributor:
Western Jewish History Center, 278.Creator/Contributor:
Judah L. Magnes Museum, 1969.020.Creator/Contributor:
Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and LifeAbstract:
The collection consists of a copy of an undated photograph of Voorsanger and photocopies of essays that he wrote and published
in the Emanu-El newspaper.
Date:
1885 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caVoorsanger, Jacob -- 1852-1908 -- Archives
Voorsanger, Jacob -- 1852-1908 -- Portraits
Rabbis
Note:
Formerly: Western Jewish History Center Collection Number 278
Formerly: Judah L. Magnes Museum Collection Number 1969.020
Jacob Voorsanger papers, BANC MSS 2010/812, The Magnes Collection of Jewish Life, The Bancroft Library, University of California,
Berkeley.
Rabbi Jacob Voorsanger (1852-1908) was born in Amsterdam, and he immigrated to the United States in the early 1870s. He served
San Francisco's Congregation Emanu-El from 1889-1908, and served as assistant rabbi for that congregation from 1886 to 1889.
Before serving there, he served in previous pulpits in Washington, D.C.; Providence, Rhode Island; and Houston, Texas. He
also engaged himself as a lecturer and writer and was both a founder and editor of the Emanu-El newspaper (the ancestor of
the current San Francisco Jewish newspaper, The J.) Rabbi Voorsanger was also a founder of Emanu-El Sisterhood fo Personal
Service and a participant in many organizations, both Jewish and non-Jewsih, and he was also a professor of Semitic languages
at the University of California (1894) and a chaplain and special lecturer at Stanford University.
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Photographs.Physical Description:
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Language:
English