Jacob Sonderling was a German and American Rabbi

Rabbi

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. He was born in a chassidic family and was an early Zionist (Klal Yisrael

Klal Yisrael

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). His aim was to combine art and religion.

Sonderling wrote his Ph.D. dissertation about the logic lessons of Kant

Immanuel Kant

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. He was a preacher at Hamburg Temple

Hamburg Temple

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 with David Leimdörfer

David Leimdörfer

Dr. David Leimdörfer was a rabbi born in Hliník nad Hronom , Kingdom of Hungary, 17 September 1851.He was educated at his native place and at Zsolna , Waitzen , Budapest, Pressburg , and Vienna...

. In World War I, he was Field Rabbi in the Hindenburg army and emigrated to the United States in 1923.

Once in the USA, he was a rabbi in New York and Chicago. In Los Angeles he was founder of the Fairfax Temple and helped Jewish immigrants with music orders.

Sources

• Michael Berenbaum: SONDERLING, JACOB. In: Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2. Aufl. Band 19, Detroit, New York u.a. 2007, ISBN 978-0-02-865947-3, p 13
• Die neueren Bestrebungen des Hamburger Tempels., in: Neue Jüdische Monatshefte 3 (1918)
• Festrede am 29. August 1920 bei: Lorenz, Ina: Die Hamburger Juden zur Zeit der Weimarer Republik. Eine Dokumentation, 2 Bde., Hamburg 1987, p 696-733
• The JEWS are changing their music. in: Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine, 1938
• (mit Ernst Toch, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Arnold Schönberg) Dramatized Seder Services. 1943
• Art in Religion. 1943
• Five Gates: Casual Notes for an Autobiography. in: American Jewish Archives 16/2 (Nov 1964), p 107-123.
• Max Nussbaum: Jacob Sonderling, in: Proceedings of the Central Conference of American Rabbis (1965)
• Andreas Brämer: Judentum und religiöse Reform. Der Hamburger Israelitische Tempel 1817-1938. Dölling und Galitz Verlag, Hamburg 2000 ISBN 3-933374-78-2
• Forum: Bay Ridge Jewish Center, Blogbeiträge mit einer Postkarte, die Sonderling als Feldprediger September 1914 zeigt. Weblinks und Detailinformationen.
• Rede Alfred Gottschalks mit Zitaten von Sonderling.
• Jonathan D. Sarna: The Debate over Mixed Seating in the American Synagogue in: Jack Wertheimer (hrsg.): The American Synagogue, Cambridge 1987 p 380-394
• The New York Times
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  : RABBI SONDERLING, ZIONIST AIDED HERZL 1. Oktober 1964
• Schlomo Friedrich Rülf: Ströme im dürren Land. Erinnerungen. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1964
• Garden of Memories (Author): Jacob Sonderling S.39)
• Zeitungsblatt Die Westküste 19.September 1941. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.