Simon Tuska (Class of 1856), the first Jewish student to attend the University of Rochester, writes "A Stranger in the Synagogue," the first work published by a student or alumnus (1854)
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Simon Tuska (Class of 1856), the first Jewish student to attend the University of Rochester, writes "A Stranger in the Synagogue," the first work published by a student or alumnus (1854)
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"Entitled The Stranger in the Synagogue, this small volume described the rites and ceremonies of Jewish worship for the enlightenment of Christians; it contained short foreword by the Rev. Henry W. Lee, rector of St. Luke's Episcopal Church, and was dedicated to the Rochester expert in Hebrew, Professor Conant. Tuska's, father, a recent immigrant from Hungary, acted as spiritual leader of the newly founded congregation of B'rith Kodesh in Rochester, and the son was in the first set of three youths who won a competitive city scholarship to the University. To train for the rabbinate, Simon studied at a celebrated theological institution in Breslau, Germany (Polish Wroclaw after the Second World War), the first known American to go to Europe for that purpose; upon his return to the United States, Tuska served as a rabbi in Memphis, Tennessee." (from Arthur May's History of the University of Rochester)
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1854
