Abba Hillel Silver

Abba Hillel Silver

Abba Hillel Silver (1893–1963) was a U.S. Rabbi and Zionist leader. Born Abraham Silver in Lithuania, son and grandson of Orthodox rabbis, he was brought to the US at the age of nine. A Zionist from his youth he made his first speech at a Zionist meeting at age fourteen. Educated in the public schools and after-school Jewish schools of New York City's Lower East Side, he left after high school to attend the Hebrew Union College and the University of Cincinnati. After graduation as valedictorian of his HUC class—and now known as Abba Hillel Silver—and ordination in 1915, he served as rabbi of a small congregation, Leshem Shomayim now Temple Shalom (Wheeling, West Virginia).

In 1917, at age twenty-four, he become rabbi of The Temple in Cleveland, Ohio, one of the nation's largest, best known Reform congregations where he served for forty-six years. Abba Hillel Silver was an early champion of rights for labor, for worker's compensation and civil liberties, though his highest priorities were to advance respect for and support of Zionism. He was to do this first among Reform Jewish congregations, then by American Jewry, then by the American public and politicians, and last by the international community—the United Nations in particular. Silver was one of the chief Zionist spokesmen before the United Nations in the Palestine hearings of 1947. [ [http://domino.un.org/unispal.nsf/9a798adbf322aff38525617b006d88d7/a62f2fe8807066038525691b00658f74/$FILE/gapal04.pdf UN Doc] Abba Hillel Silver address to the Ad Hoc Committee of 2 October 1947]

A nationally-known orator and author of many scholarly works, he also served as head of many Jewish and Zionist organizations.

Works

* "Religion in the Changing World" (1930)

ee also

* Temple Tifereth-Israel, Beachwood, Ohio

References

External links

* [http://www.clevelandjewishhistory.net/silver/index.htm Abba Hillel Silver web site]


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