Dr. Cyrus Adler, president of the Dropsie College, announces the publication this week of a biography of Jacob Emden, the famous Rabbi of the 18th century, who had a colorful history, a feature of which was his controversy with Jonathan Eibeschuetz, the Chief Rabbi of the Triple Community of Altona, Hamburg and Wandsbeck. Dr. Mortimer J. Cohen, the author of this new biography, conceives the controversy between Emden and Eibeschuetz as a kind of smoke screen to cover economic, political and social forces.
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