11 Facts About Kaufmann Kohler

Kaufmann Kohler was a German-born Jewish-American biblical scholar and critic, theologian, Reform rabbi, and contributing editor to numerous articles in The Jewish Encyclopedia.

Kaufmann Kohler was born into a family of German Jewish rabbis in Furth, Kingdom of Bavaria.

Abraham Geiger, to whose Zeitschrift Kohler became a contributor at an early age, strongly influenced his career and directed his steps to the United States.

Kaufmann Kohler was one of the youngest members of the Philadelphia Jewish Rabbinical Conference of 1869, and in 1885, he convened the Pittsburgh Rabbinical Conference, which adopted the so-called "Pittsburgh Platform" on which Reform Judaism in America still stands.

Kaufmann Kohler served for many years as president of the New York Board of Ministers and was honorary president of the Central Conference of American Rabbis.

Kaufmann Kohler was deeply interested in the Jewish Chautauqua movement.

Kaufmann Kohler was a keynote speaker at the 1893 World Parliament of Religions, at which he spoke about "Human Brotherhood as Taught by the Religions Based on the Bible".

Kaufmann Kohler later expressed doubts about the Pittsburgh Platform, stating in 1892:.

Kaufmann Kohler went on to renounce Sunday services, which he had introduced, as "a patricide" undermining the holiness of the Sabbath.

Kaufmann Kohler was always an active and prolific contributor to the Jewish and Semitic scientific press, European and American; among the periodicals to which he most frequently contributed scientific articles were Geiger's Zeitschrift, the journal of the German Oriental Society, Hebraica, the Jewish Quarterly Review, the Allgemeine Zeitung des Judenthums, the Jewish Times, the American Hebrew, Menorah Monthly, Zeitgeist, and Unity.

Kaufmann Kohler edited the German collected writings of David Einhorn.