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Krauskopf, Joseph : THE ASCENDENCY OF WOMANHOOD. A DISCOURSE

Philadelphia, 1908

1st Edition. Original Wrappers. 8vo. [19]- 34 pages ; 22 cm. From Sunday Discourses by Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf. In this discourse, read by Rabbi Krauskopf at Temple Keneseth Israel in Philadelphia in 1908, the massively influential and revered Philadelphia Rabbi takes a pro-suffrage stance and reflects on the 19th century as a time of immense progress for womens rights. He begins (12 years before Women would obtain the right to vote in the United States) , "The press has had much to say of the riotous methods which the London suffragettes recently pursued to obtain a hearing before the British Parliament Women (these critics) claim, are moved too much by hysteria and too little by reason That some of the methods pursued by the English suffragettes are to be deplored is freely admitted even by men who are favorably disposed towards extending the full franchise to women. But they recognize nothing distinctively feminine in such riotous procedures men have adopted similar courses, and have through them won great victories" "Joseph Krauskopf (1858 1923) was a prominent American rabbi, author, leader of Reform Judaism, founder of the National Farm School (now Delaware Valley University) , and long-time (1887-1923) rabbi at Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel (KI) , the oldest reform synagogue in Philadelphia which under Krauskopf, became the largest reform congregation in the nation. " (Wikipeida, 2017) . Series XXII. Nos. 3 &4. OCLC listings are somewhat hard to determine for this series, but there are about 4 copies listed worldwide (HUC, YIVO, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, NLI) . A later version of this address was published several years later for the benefit of The National Farm School. Some edgwear, including a small tear in the front wrapper. About Very Good Condition. (AMR-52-35)

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