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The Isaac Mayer Wise Digital Archive is a freely accessible comprehensive electronic edition of the correspondence and extensive published writings of Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise, a leading intellectual and prolific writer behind the rise of American Reform Judaism in the late nineteenth century. A digital collection of the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives (AJA), this project consists of approximately 3,300 items captured in nearly 20,000 digital images. It consists of correspondence, Hebrew Union College reports, manuscripts, contributions to books/monographs, books/monographs themselves (Wise wrote 35 of them over his life), contributions to periodicals, newspaper editorials, photographs, and selected secondary works on Wise, collectively spanning from 1847-1901.

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1847-1901

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Isaac Mayer Wise Digital Archive

The Isaac Mayer Wise Digital Archive is a freely accessible comprehensive electronic edition of the correspondence and extensive published writings of Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise, a leading intellectual and prolific writer behind the rise of American Reform Judaism in the late nineteenth century. A digital collection of the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives (AJA), this project consists of approximately 3,300 items captured in nearly 20,000 digital images. It consists of correspondence, Hebrew Union College reports, manuscripts, contributions to books/monographs, books/monographs themselves (Wise wrote 35 of them over his life), contributions to periodicals, newspaper editorials, photographs, and selected secondary works on Wise, collectively spanning from 1847-1901.

(Description adapted from information on project website)