Editor's note: This is one in a series of columns that are appearing monthly during the yearlong Jewish Cincinnati Bicentennial. When Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise arrived in Cincinnati in April 1854, he pronounced the city a promising home for "bold plans" and "grand schemes." At the crossroads of the emerging west and the established east, the urbanizing North and the agricultural South, Cincinnati stood out as the largest and most established Jewish community west of the eastern seaboard. It seemed the ideal site for Wise’s intended project of recalibrating an ancient religious tradition to meet the shifting demands of American...
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