Reform Judaism, which has been called “the folk religion of the German-American Jew,” represented a crisis in the longstanding linguistic and religious differences dividing Sephardim and Ashkanazim.

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Now when I look back / On manhood's and on childhood's far-stretched track, / I see but a little child / In a green sunny world-home; there enisled / By another, cloudy world / Of unsailed waters all around him curled, / And he at home content / With the small sky of wonders over him bent […]

[M]any Men give themſelves up to the firſt anticipations of their minds, and are very tenacious of the Opinions that firſt poſſeſs them; …