The Jewish Preacher Rabbi Emil G. Hirsch

A Picture of Chicago at the Turn of the 19th Century Through the Sermons of a Leading Reform Rabbi
'The Jewish Preacher' is a collection of sermons from the years before and after the turn of the nineteenth century, a very troubled time, just like ours. The book paints a picture of those times through the voice of a man, who was given all kinds of superlatives by his contemporaries. One hears about social upheavals, strikes, misery in the mines about sweat shops, floods of immigrants escapin...