Five Discourses By Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf, D. D. Philadelphia 1911...

A Discourse, at Temple Keneseth Israel by Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf, D. D. Philadelphia, December 11th, 1910. My visit to Russia and its purpose. In the summer of 1894 I visited Russia for the purpose of proposing to the Czar a plan that might end or lessen the terrible persecution of the Jews in his realm. The plan intended was a removal of the persecuted Jews to unoccupied lands in the interior, there to be colonized on farms, and to be maintained, until self-supporting, by their correligionists

A Discourse, at Temple Keneseth Israel, by Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf, D. D. Philadelphia, December 18th, 1910. [ Resumé —Discourse I: Reason for my visit to Russia and for my calling on Tolstoy. Description of his appearance and personality. Some of his views on Russia, its statesmen, its religion, its misgovernment. A pause under Poverty Tree beneath which he now lies buried.] Tolstoy recalled aid sent from Philadelphia to famine-stricken in Russia. The first question count Tolstoy put to me, afte

A Discourse, at Temple Keneseth Israel, by Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf, D. D. Philadelphia, December 25th, 1910. Resumé — Discourse I : Reasons for my visit to Russia and for my calling on Tolstoy. His appearance and personality. Some of his views on Russia, its statesmen, religion, misgovernment. A pause under the Poverty Tree—his burial place. Discourse II : Recalled food-relief for famine-stricken in Russia from Philadelphia and from Jewish congregation in California. Admired Quakers for their opp

A Discourse, at Temple Keneseth Israel, by Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf, D. D. Philadelphia, January 1st, 1911. Government used church for discrediting Tolstoy. Speaking in our last discourse of the church's excommunication of Tolstoy, and of its refusing a resting place to his remains in what she calls "consecrated ground," we said that the Czar is the spiritual as well as the temporal head of the Church of Russia, and that the hated of the church is yet more the hated of the government. This stateme

A Discourse, at Temple Keneseth Israel, by Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf, D. D. Philadelphia, January 8th, 1911. Tolstoy's fatal flight. The world was amazed, a few weeks ago, at the news that Tolstoy had fled from his family and home, with the resolve to retire to some wilderness, there to await his end. Guesses as to the cause were many, and the opinion was quite general that extreme old age had affected his reason. Explained in light of last article of his. I could not subscribe to this conclusion,

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