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Dr. Emil G. Hirsch Dies in Chicago

January 8, 1923
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Dr. Emil G. Hirsch, noted Jewish scholar, educator and rabbi, and pastor of Sinai Congregation here since 1880, died today at the age of 71. Dr. Hirsch became a rabbi in 1877, and in 1880 came to the Chicago Congregation where he had preached ever since. He was also a professor of rabbinical (###) and philosophy at the University of Chicago since 1892.

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