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What the Rabbis Said: The Public Discourse of Nineteenth-Century American Rabbis.

Publication: American Jewish History
Publication Date: 01-SEP-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: What the Rabbis Said: The Public Discourse of Nineteenth-Century American Rabbis.(Book review)

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What the Rabbis Said: The Public Discourse of Nineteenth-Century American Rabbis. By Naomi W. Cohen. New York: New York University Press, 2008. x + 260 pp.

Sermons were a staple of the nineteenth-century American Jewish newspaper. Anyone perusing the pages of the press will be struck by the frequent reprinting of lengthy sermons first delivered from American and European pulpits. Perhaps this should be unsurprising given that a number of prominent editors and proprietors were themselves preachers, and evidently eager to amplify their own orations to a wider audience. Naomi Cohen has done historians of the period a great service in dissecting the rhetoric of rabbis who preached and published in English. Where others have been put off by the...

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