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Henry Schuhl: The Wayward Rabbi of Dallas’s Temple Emanu-El

Henry Schuhl: The Wayward Rabbi of Dallas’s Temple Emanu-El The only known picture of Henry Schuhl is a pen-and-ink engraving that appeared in the New York Herald at the time of his disappearance in 1898. It shows a handsome, distinguished- looking gentleman with strong features highlighted by a big walrus mustache. It is impossible to say what he looked like earlier, but by this date he did not wear the traditional full beard of most rabbis. Source: Boston Post, Nov. 26, 1898. 2009 Article 397 Henr y Schuhl: The Wayward Rabbi of Dallas’s Temple Emanu-El by Richard F. Selcer* he name Henry Schuhl was in newspapers all over the country between 1881 and 1898, but today he is scarcely Tremembered. A history of Dallas’s Temple Emanu-El devotes less than four pages to his troubled tenure, making vague reference to a “rupture” in the congregation that was “shortly healed.” He was the golden boy of Cincinnati’s Jewish community, then he came to Dallas and turned the staid Temple Emanu-El on its ear. During his lifetime he was a religious seeker, a politician, a labor leader, a con man, and a fugitive from justice in addition to being a distinguished rabbi. He caused one of the great religious scandals of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southwestern Historical Quarterly Southwest Center (Univ of Arizona)

Henry Schuhl: The Wayward Rabbi of Dallas’s Temple Emanu-El

Southwestern Historical Quarterly , Volume 122 (4) – Apr 11, 2019

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Southwest Center (Univ of Arizona)
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Copyright © The Texas State Historical Association.
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0038-478x
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Abstract

The only known picture of Henry Schuhl is a pen-and-ink engraving that appeared in the New York Herald at the time of his disappearance in 1898. It shows a handsome, distinguished- looking gentleman with strong features highlighted by a big walrus mustache. It is impossible to say what he looked like earlier, but by this date he did not wear the traditional full beard of most rabbis. Source: Boston Post, Nov. 26, 1898. 2009 Article 397 Henr y Schuhl: The Wayward Rabbi of Dallas’s Temple Emanu-El by Richard F. Selcer* he name Henry Schuhl was in newspapers all over the country between 1881 and 1898, but today he is scarcely Tremembered. A history of Dallas’s Temple Emanu-El devotes less than four pages to his troubled tenure, making vague reference to a “rupture” in the congregation that was “shortly healed.” He was the golden boy of Cincinnati’s Jewish community, then he came to Dallas and turned the staid Temple Emanu-El on its ear. During his lifetime he was a religious seeker, a politician, a labor leader, a con man, and a fugitive from justice in addition to being a distinguished rabbi. He caused one of the great religious scandals of

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Southwestern Historical QuarterlySouthwest Center (Univ of Arizona)

Published: Apr 11, 2019

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