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Stephen Samuel Wise was an early 20th-century American Reform rabbi and Zionist leader in the Progressive Era. Born in Budapest, he was an infant when his family immigrated to New York. He followed his father and grandfather in becoming a rabbi, serving in New York and in Portland, Oregon. Wise was also a founding member of the NAACP. Wikipedia  

✵ 17. March 1874 – 19. April 1949
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“The larger hope of a united humanity whose burdens Israel was called to carry and still is appointed to bear must be sounded. The Messianic mission of Israel is central in the teachings of the reform-Synagog. Its symbolism must expose and propose the meaning of this mission. Judaism is preparatory and prelude to the greater glory of "Kingdom come."”

Stephen Samuel Wise

Free Synagogue Pulpit: Sermons and Addresses
Source: p. 76 https://archive.org/details/freesynagoguepu00wisegoog/page/n84/mode/2up

“The message of the prophets was social because, as we have said, Israel's was a social ideal. Judaism was ever a social religion, regulator of social living, a religion that primarily endeavored to guide and direct the life of men, of man as a social being, of man in every human relation.”

Stephen Samuel Wise

Free Synagogue Pulpit: Sermons and Addresses
Source: p. 28 https://archive.org/details/freesynagoguepu00wisegoog/page/n36/mode/2up

“Some call it Marxism - I call it Judaism.”

Stephen Samuel Wise

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Source: American Bulletin, May 15, 1935. See Bloody Zion https://books.google.com.br/books?id=x5QL4aWSLJYC&pg=PA214 by Edward Hendrie, 2012. 544 p.

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