Emil G. Hirsch
Emil G. Hirsch · Civil Rights & Human Rights
Reform rabbi and founding member of the NAACP (1909) who spoke against racial discrimination and steered Julius Rosenwald toward funding Black schools.
1851, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg — 1923, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Chicago, Illinois
Emil G. Hirsch is recognized among Jewish contributors to Civil Rights & Human Rights — Reform rabbi and founding member of the NAACP (1909) who spoke against racial discrimination and steered Julius Rosenwald toward funding Black schools.
Emil G. Hirsch was a prominent Reform rabbi in Chicago and a founding member of the NAACP in 1909. He spoke forcefully against racial discrimination and helped steer the philanthropist Julius Rosenwald toward funding schools for Black children in the American South. His social-justice preaching made him a leading voice of American Reform Judaism.
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Source: Wikipedia (Emil G. Hirsch); Jewish Encyclopedia
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Reform rabbi and founding member of the NAACP (1909) who spoke against racial discrimination and steered Julius Rosenwald toward funding Black schools.
Source: Wikipedia (Emil G. Hirsch); Jewish Encyclopedia
