Isaac
Mayer Wise was
born in Steingrub, Germany in 1819.
He studied in Vienna before emigrating to the United States in 1846.
He was a rabbi in Albany and Cincinnati before establishing the paper
The Israelite and the Hebrew Union
College for the training of rabbis. Wise was president of the Hebrew
Union College between 1875 and 1900. He wrote History
of the Israelitish Nation (1854) as well as an autobiography,
Reminiscences (1901). Wise died
in 1900.
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